Hometown Tourist

It's beginning to set into my brain that I will be leaving the metro area (I can't say city, as I've worked in Boston and lived in both Somerville and Cambridge) I've lived in for over four and a half years. I'm excited for the new experience, but I will certainly miss it here. It is beautiful and there is so much to do and experience. Since the closest school I've been accepted to is about a four hour drive from Boston, I will probably only be back for holidays and the occasional trip (my family lives in the suburbs, hence the holidays). I'm sure I'm not alone in being very bad about seeing the sights and taking advantage of all the great resources my that the area I call home has to offer. Sometimes we tend to overlook these things when they're in our own back yard. Therefore, I'm starting a list of things I want to do before I get the heck out of here to wherever it may be that I end up! Here's the beginning of that list, and I'll try to document some of those activities here under this category.

• eat at Border Cafe as much as possible
• visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
• sit around at Castle Island or Constitution Beach and watch the planes land and take off from Logan
• Wander around neighborhoods like Beacon Hill and the South End
• eat a delicious meal in the North End, followed by a full box of pastries from Mike's
• visit Salem
• hike Mt. Monadnock again
• eat grilled pizza at my parents' house
• bike the surrounding area on new and old trails/roads
• run the trails at Middlesex Fells at least once a week once the weather permits
• eat my LOTS of JP Licks ice cream (Irish coffee ice cream will be purchased today)
• revisit the MFA's new Art of the Americas wing
• visit the ICA
• Camp out on the Harbor Islands (or at least take a day trip)
• beach

That's just a preliminary list I've come up with sitting here this afternoon. More to come, I'm sure.

PS: just got my 4th acceptance today, CRAP! (in a good way)