| Drove to beautiful Cape Cod. The quickest was to | | | | demolished, the tower was brought to Cape Cod. |
| the National Seashore is via route 6. For a more | | | | On some nights residents say that they can hear |
| scenic one take 6A on the Northern rim or Route | | | | Jenny's voice singing from the tower. |
| 28 on the Southern shore. | | | | The next stop was Marconi Beach with its |
| Cape Cod is a left over from the glacial Ice Age | | | | lighthouse. At this point the trans-Atlantic |
| 10,000 years ago. Since then the mighty North | | | | telegraph cable was laid, seven copper wires thick. |
| Atlantic Ocean has been reclaiming it at about | | | | Sometimes the wire can be seen uncovered in |
| three feet per year. Within 1,000 years, the only | | | | the sand at low tide. Our final light house was at |
| way to see the cape is with Scuba gear. | | | | Nauset Beach. About a mile down the beach a |
| All roads lead to Provincetown. I do not know | | | | researcher, who wrote The Outtermost House, |
| what they were giving away, but the streets | | | | lived. Nearby the Pilgrims first sighted land in the |
| were packed with people. Restaurants and stores | | | | new world. The chose Plymouth, because the |
| with all types of merchandise abound. | | | | harbor was not adequate for their safety. |
| Accommodations are available for any price range. | | | | On the way back to the mainland (Cape Cod is |
| The focal point of the town is the 252 feet tall | | | | cut off from it by a canal) Rte 6A takes you |
| Pilgrim Tower, which commemorates the Pilgrims | | | | through the quaint towns of Orleans, |
| land on Plymouth Rock. The museum at the base | | | | Dennis,Yarmouth, Barnstable, and Sandwich. The |
| of the tower holds artifacts from the Mayflower | | | | winding road is one of the oldest highways in the |
| and the original Plymouth Colony. Stairs lead to the | | | | nation, the Old King's Highway. The Southern |
| top of the tower with magnificent views of the | | | | route, rte. 28, goes though Chatham, Harwich, |
| Cape and Provincetown. | | | | Hyannis, Falmouth, and their East and West |
| Ate lunch at Truro Cafe on Pond Road in Truru. | | | | counterparts. This area is more built up, especially |
| Their specialty is a lobster sandwich, which I had. | | | | around Hyannis, where the Kennedy family has its |
| The road leads to the Highland Beach Light house | | | | compound. The only way to view this is by sea. |
| and museum. On the property is one of the | | | | From the Southern shore, the islands of Martha's |
| oldest public golf courses in the United States. | | | | Vinyard and Nantucket are accessible via ferry. |
| Also on the property is the Jenny Lind Tower. | | | | Nantucket was a major whaling community, but |
| The story is told that P.T. Barnum oversold a | | | | New Bedford took over that title of the largest, |
| concert in the 1850s in Boston, MA, where Jenny | | | | because of its deeper harbor. Martha's Vineyard is |
| Lind, the Swedish Nightingale was to entertain. The | | | | notable for the Chappaquiddick incident involving |
| crowds rioted. So she sang from one of the four | | | | Maryjo Kopeckne and Senator Teddy Kennedy |
| towers of the concert hall. When the hall was | | | | back in the 60s. |