American Revolution

Boston's Freedom Trail is a red line that snakes through Boston. No, the red line is not just on the map, there's actually a red line that stretches 2.5 miles through the city, occasionally studded with a bronze medallion embedded in the pavement indicating a stop. Starting at Boston Common, the oldest city park in the country (1634), the trail stops at several significant historical sites which were pivotal in instigating the American Revolutionary War - and Freedom. Most of the stops had to do with Paul Revere - "One if by land and two if by sea...." Halfway through the trail I was able to eat at a very delicious Italian restaurant (mmm veal), then coffee and cannoli at Mike's Pastry.
I met my parents here - they flew in on the 10th, so I get to stay in a hotel (Hotel@MIT) instead of in my car or on somebody's floor. Despite being a stone's throw from one of the most advanced technological universities in the country, their "free wireless internet" is non-existent, but luckily there is an ethernet cable in the room (which works, it just took quite a while to set it up).

More later on the freedom trail, Harvard, and my American revolution.