Salem & Boston

Waking early and after breakfasting on oats and coffee, we said goodbye to Kittery and headed on our way to MA!

We took a really cool historic walking tour in Salem, through Witch City Walking Tours, the Historical & Hauntings Tour, which detailed some very interesting and disturbing historical facts from the witch trials and other local people and happenings. The town itself is laid out really funky and the whole kitschy witch craze is all a-fervor there, which is apparently a relatively new thing since the locals were quite tight-lipped and ashamed of the dark past. There are also current controversies about trivializing the past or cashing in on it as a touristy destination, as well as people who are Traditional Witches as a spiritual path, some that embrace the kitsch, and some that do not.

The tour ended in the cemetery where many of the historical figures we discussed were buried, and for those who were killed as witches, they were not buried there nor given proper burials or funerary rites, so eventually they erected slabs of stones surrounding the cemetery to honor those that died and as a symbolic gesture of the act as a reminder to those who dwell within that they denied these people the right to a proper burial. I got choked up to see it, and I went to each stone and honored each name with a silent blessing. I was heartened to see fresh offerings at each one of them. 

We then had lunch at Red’s Sandwiches, then began the journey to Boston! After all the driving, shuttling, dropping off rental car, figuring out the train connections and finding the B&B, we were very ready to chill for a bit in our cute little room in this very quaint bed and breakfast, The Oasis. We are in the Adams house (there are as far as I can tell) two properties next to each other that area the hotel, and to me they remind me of the house that the Cosby’s lived in in The Cosby Show.

We then booked a DUCK land/boat tour on these awesome military replicas of a DUCK vehicle (which were designed by a woman!) and I will just let the photos speak for themselves! We had an absolute blast!