Plymouth Rock and Fall River

"THE ROCK"

 

  

The monument that surrounds (protects) the "rock".

While we were in Salisbury Beach, we took several “road trips”.  The state is so small north to south that nothing is very far away.  One day, we headed south.  Pat had never been to Plymouth Rock.  I’d been there and tried to describe “the rock” to him; but you have to see it to believe it (I have to admit, I don’t really think it’s the actual rock, if there ever was one.  Do we really think the pilgrims noted the exact rock, that they all actually stepped on the same rock, and then protected that particular rock for the sake of history?  Call me cynical-no surprise, huh!).  Anyway, another beautiful day; Pat was duly unimpressed with the “rock”; However, we enjoyed the boats bobbing in the blue harbor, and wandering the old part of town, and, of course, the old cemetery where many of the pilgrims are buried.

Mayflower replica and Plymouth harbor.

Pilgrim Cemetery

From Plymouth, we headed to the coastal town of Fall River.  One of the largest, if not the largest, settlements of Portuguese immigrants from the Azores, is in the Fall River area.  We shopped at the local Portuguese/Azores market and ate lunch at an Azorean restaurant where the menu really reminded us of restaurants on San Miguel in the Azores….made us want to make a return trip!

Pat with typical Azorean seafood dish.