Mini-vacation to Gloucester part one

[urbpan]

Here we are at Inn Magnolia! We got this opportunity because I'll be leading a mushroom walk the Inn is sponsoring, next week.




Alexis looking a little too cheery at the memorial to drowned fishermen, but if you come to Gloucester you have to pose with this monument IT'S THE LAW.


Beach roses are fruiting all over the area. I taught our innkeeper how to eat them (don't bite all the way through, just strip off the skin with your teeth).


Gloucester is a great town if you're looking for proctors in admiralty.


Also, holy shit a record store. And a movie theater with a cute marquee acknowledging the local accent.


Always good advice.


Delicious Mexican food at Tacos Lupita.


BOING


Then some nice ales over at the Cape Ann Brewing Company.


The view of the harbor from our table.


Inside they were enlisting the help of the customers to get the hops ready for the next batch of beer!


Nice work, gang!


Some small flying insects were in the ATM booth we stopped at. I couldn't not take a picture, to try to see what they were.


They appeared to be ants, alate (winged) reproductive ants on their way out of the colony to start a new one somewhere else.


The Inn is also lovely at night.

Comments

[meerkat77.livejournal.com]

Hi and thanks for adding me. I´m already very much into your picture posts.

Where´s Cloucester exactly? Well, by the sea, I can assume by the memorial to drowned fishermen and the harbor... but then I´m lost...

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Gloucester is, with Rockport, the nub of land that sticks out into the ocean (Cape Ann) north of Salem but south of Newburyport. If you think of Massachusetts as a rhino-like beast facing right, Gloucester is the heavy brow ridge of the beast. If you mostly know highways, Gloucester is the end of rt 128 (after 95 and 128 diverge north of boston).

Glad you like the posts! I think the next one is more interesting than this one. :)

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Massachusetts looks more like some kind of elephant, I guess, with cape cod being a trunk or tusk.

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

If you think of Massachusetts as a rhino-like beast facing right, Gloucester is the heavy brow ridge of the beast

*falls over laughing*

True, so true!

I went to grammar school with that Proctor of Admiralty. He may have had a crush on me in 8th grade, a fact which my mother never tires of reminding me.

Cape Ann Brewing Company is awesome, and evening is absolutely the best time to visit.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. And here I was thinking that the phrase "proctor of admiralty" was a funny enough nonsense phrase in its own right. Is your mom disappointed that you didn't end up with the good proctor?

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

Yesssss indeedy.

[meerkat77.livejournal.com]

I actually know nothing of highways. ;) I was 17 when I made my first (and sadly last so far) trip to Massachusetts (well, and the USA in general, I have to say) and I wasn´t allowed to drive then (as you don´t get your driver´s license before 18 here in Germany). So highways don´t mean much to me as it was other people taking me from one point to the next.
As far as I remember the only sea town I visited was Cape Cod but then that´s 19 years ago by now and my memory has faded a lot.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

The Cape is pretty spectacular. I love New England so much, I'll happily provide some suggestions if you ever come back!

[didotwite]

pass the peas! hunh! bada bah badabah badah

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I do love my Pandora funk station. ("Mighty Mighty Radio")

[trenton22.livejournal.com]

Good times. I've made Yelp notes to check out CABC and Tacos Lupitas the next time I'm in Gloucester.