Alright, today is going to be a long and very busy day packed with shit to see and eat/do. Today we are going to do the Boston “Freedom Trail” a historical tourist route that takes people through downtown Boston that hits all the major or significant historical landmarks and places that are related to the American Revolution and or American Civil war, there’s a lot to cover so let’s go.

We start the day with trying out some high quality artisan breakfast that is near our starting point from the Freedom trail, Cafe Bonjour. When we arrived via Uber there was a line waiting to get in, luckily they only have counter seats once again that we accepted, noice.

I ended up getting something they called the classic scramble breakfast sandwich, back eggs, avocado, fancy colored mayo sauce in a baguette with potatoes and greens on the side. Pretty fancy and quite filling indeed, the bacon was not the same kind of bacon that I am used to, it was not smoked and not salty, I guess this is a french thing.

Because of the moment we decided to try some avocado toast that has eggs, feta and greens, thinking it would be small but it proved to be quite big as well. We split it between us, or at least tried to.

Dan got eggs Benedict or what they called Norwegian eggs Benedict because it has smoked salmon in it. While it was good he said, he wasn’t able to finish it all. Combined with the split avocado toast, we had ordered a bit too much, ah-well.

Outside of the nice Cafe Bonjour the line is kinda there still. Overall this was a very real french experience because all of the workers spoke french for real, alot of the customers also seemed to be french too, wow. So yea, it was kind of expensive with both of our orders combined to over $50 but not bad really considering that we had 3 dishes and I also ordered a coffee.

A short walk nearby from the cafe is the visitors center of the Freedom Trail and and official starting point. It’s kind of busted here but the Freedom Trail is easy to follow, just follow the red bricked lines on the ground and your good. Show me da wae.

Proof of existence, thumbs of fountain edition.

Following the trail we ended up walking by a historical cemetery that has a lot of famous people buried there. For instance this very large monument for Benjamin Franklin and his family/relatives.

This large stone is to mark the burial place of John Hancock, it notes that his most noticeable achievement is signing the declaration of independence.

Despite all the hype and fame, Paul Revere has a tiny ass stone as if he was nobody, I mean he is famous for letting everyone in Boston know that the British are coming but man was mainly a stone mason and carpenter by trade so yea, this dude wasn’t exactly rich in life based on his stone size. The marker to let people know this is his stone is way larger this his actual marker, jokes.

Nearby is also the old Boston city hall, which was last still used in 1970’s I think. It’s nice but it has been converted to a Chris Ruth’s steak house, which is kind of jokes.

There are lots of info and plaques around the area on the path, such as this one, explaining why the donkey and elephant are used to symbolize the Democrats and Republicans in American politics.

Famous pair of statues symbolizing the Irish potato famine when lots of Irish came to Boston at the turn of the century 19th century. Look at this happy healthy family.

Now look at them in ruin looking ill and starving. Conversely, you can interpret it based on order, saying that they were starving in Ireland but when they came to America they were good and healthy, it depends on the order you view them I suppose. Great pair of statues.

Historical buildings or not, Chipotle gotta be where people at you know, as one of the most profitable food chains, its not surprising but still jokes to see them occupying old buildings.

Site of the Boston Massacre, when the British shot people when they were protesting about some shit or some grievances against them. Hmm.

Very large statue of Samuel Adams, yes, the same guy that has a beer named after him. It’s not surprising then that this area is owned by them and they have breweries and tasting buildings around for their beer in the area. Pose is pretty gangster.

Here we are at the Quincy, market, one of the main tourist hubs of the Freedom Trail where many go to to get lunch or do some shopping as inside is a large food court like hall.

Inside is a long corridor of food shops dishing out everything from Pizza, Chinese food to the what you would expect, chowdas, crab cakes and of course lobsta rolls.

We opted to not eat at the Quincy market and have something a bit lighter, so we headed to the Union Oyster House, considered one of the oldest restaurants still operating in the US.

When you first enter you see a nice oyster shucking counter for patrons who want to see the shit done fresh and eat it immediately. Noice.

The entire place is a tourist attraction with stuff on the walls and artifacts, showing all the famous people who visited there and other older historical facts and nick nacks.

Still kind of full from the big breakfast we had, me and Dan got the clam chowda cause people say it’s their best thing. They give you some cornbread on the side which I didn’t really eat and put in those new England crackers for soup, like everyplace has these it seems. When you put them in, they don’t dissovle, hmm. Overall the chowda was pretty good, but not super amazing. Lots of clams tho, which is good.

We also ordered an appetizer of fried calamari, which I mostly ate myself cause yea, Dan wasn’t feeling it for fried stuff today. The red sauce is basically marinara sauce, so pretty Italian this dish is. Overall this place is purely for tourists which I don’t think is a problem, it’s got cred with al the famous and historical people visiting and it has a nice vibe, not to mention gift shop inside too lol.

Continuing on our way we come across Mikes Pastry, famous for Italian Cannolis. When we went inside it was quite busy indeed.

We ordered two, each for $7 each, quite expensive but luckily they packed it up for us automatically cause we would probably eat it later. Noice.

After we saw more stuff on the trail and resting a bit we decided to cross the bridge to the upper north side of Boston for the final remaining tourist places on the Freedom trail. Proof of bridge walking 2, distant walking behind slowly version existence.

Here is the main thing most people cross the bridge for, the USS Constitution, an old heavy frigate class warship from the war of independence era. The oldest commissioned warship in the world, meaning the US Navy still assigns a commander and staff assigned to her, even today, if not for tourism and comfy job position purposes ceremonially.

Onboard this old ass boat, looks nice and restored shiny. Going on is free but you have to do a airport level security check for some reason before they let you in for some reason.

They allow you to go inside the boat up to two levels down. While these stairs are steep, they are not that bad once you go down in reverse as they instruct you to.

Inside they have more canon and shit to show, noice. Lots of people inside and the ceiling is kind of small, if you were taller you would hit your head.

After a decent time at the old boat, we when to a newer boat they also had stationed nearby; the USS Cassin Young, a destroyer that served in WWII Pacific theater with the code number DD-793. Noice, this boat is also in Azure lane as a cute girl too.

Aboard the ship they have all the weapons and stuff on display like depth charges, air air guns and even torpedoes.

Nice destroyer gun, I remember it from my game as an equip. The Cassin is a nice boat but they don’t really allow you inside to the lower decks which is too bad, only the deck and the immediate buildings on the deck, so not higher or lower; still cool to go on regardless.

After the boat area we left to see the final thing to finish off the Freedom Trail, the Bunker Hill monument, a large obelisk structure to remember the battle of bunker hill, one of the first battles in the US war for independence, in which the British actually won but it cost them dearly, loosing a good chunk of their troops; a pyrrhic victory that improved the morale of colonial troops. I give the thumbs up because we made it to the end, Dan gives a thumbs down because it came at a great cost; his strength and stamina.

I can’t remember who this statue was of but he’s looking pretty bad ass indeed.

These guys standing in front of us are interesting, I guess they came for the Cubs baseball game with the Sox? All the while one of the staff for the place was lowering down the US flag which I suppose they do everyday when they close at 5:30pm. You can technically walk up the monument, but it’s like 294 steps to the top and we were pretty tired when we got here so nope not doing it.

I should have taken an equivalent picture at the visitors center in the beginning but this circle signifies the end of the Freedom Trail, hell yea boi, we walked that shit roughly 2.5 miles (4.0 km).

After resting some more at the top of bunker hill, we called an uber and went back to Quincy Market for dinner eats. The weather today has been pretty mild and good, not hot at all really with a nice cool breeze, it had rained the night before so we get the benefit of that all today, noice.

I needed to do it today to complete my full full Boston food experience so I got a combo from this store for a lobsta roll and chowda.

Overall it tasted pretty good, but not amazing, it’s just boiiled lobster with hot butter poured onto a brioche like hot dob bun toasted. I could have gotten the cold one with mayo but not really my thing, I like my lobster warm/hot, not like a salad. This combo cost roughly $40 which is not bad since it comes with your choice of drink and a soup. I got lobster bisque and lemonade. Not bad, the bisque was pretty good but not amazing once again, better than from can I suppose or grocery store version.

Dan was feeling adventurous to test his stomach so he got a slice of pizza, from Reginas Pizza, apparently a popular pizza chain that’s claim to fame is using traditional brick ovens. I gave him some of my lobsta roll to try. He said the pizza was alright but still preferred Pizzaville at home. After finishing up our food we walked around the market area a bit more and decided to Uber back to our hotel to call it a day, a long busy day indeed.

Remember this shit? It’s the Cannoli we picked up at Mike’s Pastry in the afternoon, I had been carrying it in a bag all throughout the day and it still looks good, not messed up or shit, noice. We ate them back in our hotel and I can say that it was pretty good, I had the pistachio one, while Dan had the chocolate mint one; although he said that it was “too sweet” for his sensitive Asian taste buds, a sentiment that I am sure many others might feel as well; although for me I found it just right. I do wish however that they were a bit smaller, with 30% reduction in size and price because by the time I had eaten 2/3 of it, while good, I was tired/bored of the flavor. $7 is alot for just one of these, so having them smaller and cost $4-5 makes more sense to me.

And that ends our first full day in Boston, I can say we did a pretty good job of hitting all the bait historical and tourist places and proud that we managed to finish the Freedom trail, I wasn’t sure we could manage but we did it, good shit. Tomorrow is our last full day in Boston with the Yoasobi concert in the evening and we still have lots of things to see and eat in this town, but let’s see how things go and hope for the best.