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 I can't remember the name of the ship, but I'm sure it's cool  I love these old sailing vessels  The Rockmore Drydock. We had lunch there. I'm sure it was lovely  A couple examples of the goofy (themed) stores you'll find in Salem. Y'know, I think we actually ate lunch at that Bella place there and dinner at the other place. Hell if I remember, this was 8 years ago  A couple cool touristy places  Hmm, Myles Standish?  A cool church  And the steeple  The John Ward House. It's a national landmark. He did something important I'm sure  Roger Conant, the first settler of Salem. If you ever wondered where the modern look of a witch comes from, here you go  "I was a means through grace assisting me, to stop the flight of those few that then were here with me, and that by my utter denial to go away with them, who would have gone either for England or mostly for Virginia" I'm sure it sounded better in 1626  A cool stone gazebo in one of the parks  The Salem Witch Museum  Front view with Tara  And both of us. So yeah, this place was neat, but certainly not for the little ones (imprisonment, torture, execution - the USA sure has a great heritage in some parts). Anyway, I didn't even bother posting the pics from in there because of the aforementioned less-than-family-content  Here's the Morning Glory Inn, the bed & breakfast we stayed at  The House of Seven Gables (re: Nathaniel Hawthorne). God forbid I had the wherewithall to take a picture of all the gables. Nope, you get the side-back one and that's it  Salem harbor  Boats in the harbor  More harbor  A lighthouse at the end of the isthmus jutting into the harbor  Harbor  Harbor  Harbor  Holy crap what was my fascination with the harbor?  Here's a closeup of the lighthouse  And back to the harbor again  There's that ship again  Tara posing in front of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site  So then we popped over to visit Gloucester, mostly because of seeing it in The Perfect Storm. After talking to the lady at the visitor's center, that's a big reason anyone comes here. Nice little town though. It was here we first had lobster rolls - yum  They also have a gazebo. This is a staple in New England cities apparently  Cool view of the water  I think this house is worth a few bucks  Gazebo again  Here's the rock that housed that plaque you saw earlier  And here is us standing on said rock  Looking down on yes, the gazebo!  And then out into the bay  This was kinda neat. The Cape Pond Ice Co. This was featured in the film The Perfect Storm, as seen worn on a tshirt by one of the actors playing a smelly, unkempt deckhand. Nice huh, and yet here I am remembering it as I take a picture of the company's main door. Advertising works!  Thatcher Island, home of the big dump ducks - no kidding  There's the lighthouse on Thatcher Island  Some house  Gloucester's Maritime Museum. This is where we bought our buoy bell here that still hangs in the backyard near the pool today. That's more than you can say about most of the stuff we've purchased on vacations past  A rocky beach  Another rocky beach - actually, the same one  Tara  Both of us  Water  Gull  And finally another very cool house |
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