road trip to massachusetts

My friend Angel and I are on a weekend road trip to Massachusetts. Destination: the Museum of Printing. But that's tomorrow.

Today we stopped in Mystic, visited a bookstore and little shopping village. Had lunch at a diner.  And did a volkssport walk.

We registered for the walk at a Howard Johnson's. I didn't realize they still existed. There were two walks to pick from—the town walk or the cemetery walk. We chose the town walk. Then drove about a mile to the start point—The Mystic Seaport Museum. But we parked in the wrong lot and ended up adding about 1/3 mile to our walk. 

The Seaport Museum takes up several blocks of the town. There are multiple docks and buildings and they are restoring more. The walk took us around the perimeter and  to a linear town park next to the waterfront. Then we crossed a drawbridge and headed into "downtown". Lots of cute shops. The bookstore we were looking for closed and moved somewhere else. 

Catty corner across the street was Mystic Pizza. Made famous in 1988 in a film starring Julia Roberts. How is it possible that that movie is 36 years old?

Because we walked the extra distance we cut off some of the walk and headed back toward the Seaport. We were walking on a road parallel to the river when the draw bridge opened.  I guess we should be glad we didn't get caught on the other side.

When we got back to the car at 4, we drove the rest of the 2.5 hours to get to Lowell. The MOP is less than a half-hour away but there are no hotels. Plus we want to go to an indy bookstores in Andover and Lowell. I don't think there is any walks scheduled for tomorrow.

Miles/Steps:  11,035 steps for the day. Which is remarkable because we were in the car for 6.5 hours. About 2.5 miles for the walk.
Weather:        Low 80s, sunny, breezy.

Bathrooms:    I-5 at the linear park.