Sheryl said: Our clothes caught on fire!!

That was what I heard as I pulled up at the laundry at the Boston-Cape Cod KOA Campground near Middleboro, MA this morning.  A beautiful campground south of Boston, we rolled in here about 10 a.m. after spending the night in a Wal-mart parking lot about 20 minutes away.  We got set up without any trouble, ate an early lunch, and Sheryl washed a couple of loads of clothes in the trailer (in our miniature washer).   But since we don't have a dryer, we thought we'd just use the one on the grounds.   Sheryl was watching that while I was emptying the grey water tanks when things went crazy.  About $80 worth of clothes ruined.  They couldn't reimburse us for the clothes, BUT we did manage to get 2 nights of free camping for our trouble.

After re-washing but NOT DRYING the clothes that were still usable, we headed to Cape Cod.   We stopped at Sandwich, MA and found a great spot to head out to the beach.   Our walk took us for a couple of hundred yards across the salt-water marsh on a nice boardwalk.   Let me tell you:   We smelled the smell that sailors smell when they know they are near land.   And it's not a pretty smell.  Once on the beach, the view was spectacular.

 

After the beach view, We left Sandwich and headed south for Falmouth and Woods Hole.  Sheryl had wanted to see Martha's Vineyard Island and Woods Hole, MA seemed to be the best place to see what we could see.  Woods Hole is also the location of a certain very famous oceanographic institute by the same name.

Sheryl is standing in the front yard of the Nobska Point lighthouse we visited with Martha's Vineyard in the background. We thought about going over to Martha's Vineyard, but at $29 each one way per person, that was a NO!!   We figured we didn't need to drive on it - just see it. 

The Light-keepers cottage at the Nobska Point lighthouse.

I took a round-about way of getting back to Plymouth 'cause we wanted to see the rock the Pilgrims set foot on.  The round about?  I chose not to believe the GPS.   Found some of the curviest back roads in Massachusetts but we made it.   Even though the rock is ensconced in a Roman type portico, it's not lit at night.  And it was settled on what rock the Pilgrims actually landed on until 120 YEARS after they had landed.  Being out east, I'm wouldn't have been surprised if they had to pay a toll when they landed.

I was getting directions this morning and the guy told me to go to the "rotary" and go right at the second turn.  It's a round-a-bouts or traffic circle in - they call them "rotary's" out here.  

And we're not back where we started this morning.  The laundry.  Sheryl is working a picture puzzle and I'm typing this blog.   We're hoping to get by without a fire this time.   We're going into Boston by train tomorrow - got to catch the 9:45 a.m. run -  to walk "The Freedom Trail."   It's the places in Boston history leading up to and through the Revolutionary War.   We can almost hear Paul Revere yelling out:  "The British are coming!"

A guy at the beach overlooking Cape Cod today said that Massachusetts is expecting wet snow in the western part of the State tomorrow.  We've got to get further south.   More on that later..