Before leaving Hingham I finally was able to get a picture of this sign. Massachusetts has one for each of their towns and it's such a kick to drive from one town to another and see this sign with date of settlement started. Hard to get pictures because you don't know where the town line begins and there is no place to pull over for a quick stop and picture. It's a bummer. On this one I was lucky enough after a month to be driving towards sign and 1st at stoplight with camera next to me. ha! All these towns are so historic and have some wonderful history. Too bad so many have been neglected. Roads are terrible in most places and some are really run down while others thrive.. just like anywhere. Just interesting observations. I was taken so much with Hingham because we lived there for 5 weeks and it was so CLEAN! Loved the manicured yards and over 1800 historic homes and some still in residence of 13 generations! That is something in this young country with so littl
Oh what a day!! Had a blast seeing this town I had always wanted to say I had been there but never really wanted to go there.. if that makes any sense. All the horror stories of crime, corruption, filth etc etc etc... Found a very pretty city with flowers everywhere - very clean and neat and easy to get around in despite all we had heard. Did have a very memorable day due to If it's too good to be true it probably is.. parking came too easy and sure enough we were towed away.. what a shock but felt good since we could have been ripped off.. so found our car and thought all was good with $160. price tag to free car but oh what a surprise - another $200.00 ticket on top of that! oh well - all for parking in handicap space (that was not painted blue or had handicap design) - had to read the small print on ALL the signs posted on the street - very tricky! We were not the only ones who faced this problem. There was guy right behind us in line with the same problem. oh well, we did get out and walk 9 miles total and had a ball... Above is "Cloud gate" and what a fun thing this is to play with in the park.. people all around us just having good time with the picture thing.. we did too. I am not sure how many pics I got of this thing but a lot! Didn't find the town windy but could see where it might be and we were threatened with possible thunderstorms but they never materialized so that too proved to be a good thing.
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