The Dustin & Danielle Diaries: New England Trip--Wed Oct 14th--Cape Cod

Wednesday is Cape Cod day! We drove the 2 hours and 10 minutes to the very end of the cape to a town named Provincetown or P-Town.

Here is a "school bus." This was the 2nd one we saw. The first one was in the neighborhood in which we are staying. This one was on our way to Cape Cod!

Here is one of only two bridges that allow you into Cape Cod.

This is a picture of the scenery in Provincetown.

We decided to stop and take pictures.

Unbeknown to us, there was a light house out here...

Here's a pic of us on the rocks that lead to the light house. I got a bit chicken going too far! Not to mention I did hurt my foot by getting it caught in one of the rocks! haha. To the left you can see the light house in the distance.

Wouldn't you know it... this was the first landing spot of the Pilgrims!!! Not Plymouth!!

So we drive on into Provincetown. At first we don't understand the town because the main roads don't have anything on them. As we're driving through we realize the town is gay and lesbian "friendly" or so they say. Many houses had these flags flying out front with the word "PEACE" on it. What really got my goat was that they'd fly them right next to Old Glory.

So moving on, we find a place to park for free and it has this awesome First Landing Monument.

As we walk the streets I see this...

and I felt a bit out of place. My conservative values started to get a pushed aside and I actually began to not look at the homosexuals holding hands as much as I did at first. For lunch we stopped into an Irish pup and had clam chowda and lobster bisque. As we walked on, the liberalism just started to fuse into me (sarcastic) and I bought some art! Whoa, I know! I bought two pictures from a man that actually took the pictures and had them matted. The pic is of the light house from above and the rocks from above that lead out to that light house.

Below you see a winery we went to. In Indiana and all the way up and down I-65 the wineries allow tours for free and free tasting. Well, not here! It was $7 a piece for 5 tastes and a nice wine glass. Then we got to thinking... how are we going to get this glass home on an airplane? Then we thought, well maybe we can just ship a bottle of wine home, right? Wrong! Indiana won't allow Massachusetts to ship wine to us. Oh well, guess it saved us some money, right? Considering a bottle of chardonnay cost $20 or more plus tax! Guess they are proud of their product.

On the way back toward mainland we decided to pull off and go to the Cape Cod Chip Company! We took the self-guided tour, bought some chips, and Dustin got a t-shirt. This place was in Hyannis. We didn't think much of it, but were definitely hungry since it had been about 4 hours since our bowls of soup at the Irish pub in liberal city. We drive on into town in Hyannis. Wouldn't you know it, it's where Kennedy enjoyed his summers and was raised out here. Thinking it was too late (around 4:15) we tried to go into the museum quickly and the ladies were very kind to let us in and enjoy. The museum was small, but very informing, interesting, and generally melancholy.

So after the museum we NOW get to get something to eat. We got a 20% coupon from the museum to go to this place called Tommy Doyle's. Amazingly it was ANOTHER Irish pub! Anyway it was amazing! I had a club and Dustin had a NY Strip, stuffed shrimp, mashed taters, and green beans. His meal was only $15!! AND delicious! So we stayed there for awhile, talked to the bar tenders and the waiter. It was a blast.

We moved on to see what was left of Hyannis. Here's some scenery.