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I spent Memorial Day weekend moving more stuff to Boston, getting my driver's license & visiting Rockport (3 all-day adventures). Continuing my streak of travel difficulties, my Thursday night flight was cancelled due to inclimate weather in Chicago (I guess... didn't seem like much to me). I had to beg & plead just to reschedule a flight the next morning. Otherwise my original flight plans were revised to Friday afternoon.

Rockport's a cool little fishing village 35 miles northeast of Boston, which is about a 40-minute trip on the high-speed commuter rail from the city. It's a smaller version of Gloucester - in fact, it was Gloucester until it separated in the mid-1800's. The town is basically a few blocks of small gift shops & bed 'n breakfasts on the ocean. It's the place to go for a more romantic, quiet weekend.

According to Wikipedia, Rockport was a "dry town" all the way up until 2005. I guess it took 150 years to recover from the rum revolt of 1856 when a gang of 200 women "swept through the town and destroyed anything containing alcohol". Interesting read