Our friend Kevin lives in Boston and works for Bose. I was his roommate for two years in undergrad. He's fluent in Japanese & a friggin' genius so he's had some great jobs. He worked in Japan for a couple years. I was able to go see him with some buddies for about 10 days. Man was that cool. Now he lives in Boston & works on audio systems for Japanese car companies (Infinity, a.k.a. Nissan). His girlfriend still lives in Japan so it's cool that he gets to go there on business sometimes.
Anyway, Kevin lives in a nice apartment in one of the little Boston areas (I forget which). Apparently people in Boston are very particular about explaining exactly what part of the city they are from, so every 5 feet seems to have a different name. He had some nice access to public transportation so we were able to go downtown pretty easily.
We were able to take the famous Freedom Trail and see all kinds of great history. It's the birthplace of the U.S. and the center of where lots of things happened during the revolution days. For those that don't know, the trail winds through Boston and shows you all kinds of historic sites. We just bought a little guide book and walked the trail ourselves. That was pretty nice because we were able to linger to speed through as needed.
Take a look at some pictures:
Here's Jen and I out in the harbor traveling from Charleston back to Boston. You see the Boston skyline behind us.
Here's a semi-authorized picture of the House of Representatives Chamber. Check out the pictures on the wall. Yeah, no pressure with that kind of history around.
I've got to say that we had a great time in Boston. It was great to see Schaaf and the city was awesome. We're actually considering moving there for further schooling (MIT), but that's a ways away. Until then it will definitely be on our list of favorite vacation spots.
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