Plymouth, MA

Skyler’s mom flew in from Fayetteville (our hometown) on Tuesday night. Her flight was due into Boston’s Logan Airport at 10:30 pm, but because of delays the flight didn't actually get in until just after midnight. Needless to say, all three of us were pretty pooped that night and slept in well into the morning on Wednesday. After a slow breakfast and a long walk with the pups around the beautiful RV park grounds we decided to make the 15 mile drive to Plymouth for the afternoon. On our way out there we drove by a few local cranberry bogs in hopes of showing Pattie the wet harvest.

We found a cranberry bog during wet harvest!

Plymouth, also known as America’s Hometown, is home to the famous Plymouth Rock where the pilgrims first landed on the Mayflower ship in 1620. Plymouth is where New England was first established and is also where the first Thanksgiving Feast was held (making it a popular destination during that holiday). The town is located 30 miles south of Boston on the Atlantic coast and just north of Cape Cod.

One of the most famous attractions in town is of course the Plymouth Rock. The unexpectedly small boulder sits under a granite memorial on Water Street in Plymouth harbor. The rock is meant to mark the exact spot where the pilgrims disembarked. But what’s funny is that the rock itself is so tiny. I guess when I imagined PLYMOUTH ROCK I imagined something like this:

Haystack Rock on Cannon Beach in Oregon

And instead it looks like this:

Skyler admiring the tiny Plymouth Rock

The rock is part of the Plymouth Memorial State Park, the smallest state park in Massachusetts. The park is one of the most heavily visited parks in the state parks systems with nearly one million visitors a year. That’s a lot of people coming from all over to see this little pebble! :o)

Sky and his mom at Plymouth Rock

The Plymouth Rock Memorial

View of the Plymouth harbor from Plymouth Rock

The Mayflower II

The waterfront is only a few blocks away from Plymouth’s Main Street making the town quite walkable. We strolled around for a while and then found the perfect place for a light lunch on North Street, just off of Main Street, called the Blue Blinds Bakery. The café was super cute inside with nautical and colonial themes, and smelled of freshly baked breads and bakery goods. We took our lunches outside to the tables under the covered porch and afterwards stocked up on a collection of freshly made muffins and sticky pecan buns (epic!) for next morning’s breakfast.

Lunch at the Blue Blinds Bakery

Since it was Pattie’s first day and because we were all still a bit tired from staying up late the night before, we decided to not overdo it. After Plymouth we took a drive down the coast towards Cape Cod and then headed back to Middleboro after a quick visit to the Atlantic Ocean on Sagamore Beach. The coast was deserted and all the facilities were boarded up for the season. The last hurrah for this beach had been Columbus Day weekend.

Sagamore Beach

Sky walking on Sagamore Beach

To see more pictures of Plymouth, click here.

Happy America’s Hometown Discovering,

M.