Provincetown, Cape Cod

Provincetown is located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod.

A view of our P-town riveria from the top of the Pilgrim Monument.

A little history lesson here:

The Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association built the Pilgrim Monument to commemorate the Mayflower Pilgrims’ first landing in the New World in Provincetown, on November 21st, 1620. Here the Pilgrims spent 5 weeks exploring the tip of Cape Cod, before they sailed on to Plymouth. They also drew up and signed the Mayflower Compact, which established the rule of law for the new land, America's first democratic constitutional document assuring equality and justice for everyone, or so the Mayflower society claims

And a little trivia:

The Pilgrim Monument is the tallest all-granite structure in the United States.

Now, back to the blog. Our lodging for the week was on Center Street in the center on P-town. We had a fully equipped and tastefully decorated (in classic gay tradition) studio apartment on the second floor.

That was our balcony view, it was one of the more interesting stores that we never made it into.

For all the girls out there, it's official - Shopping is a form of therapy.

The best time to go to Provincetown is right after the Labor Day weekend when the weather is still perfect, but the rental rates have dropped. Don't worry, you wouldn't miss out on swimming as the ocean there is never swimmable (think Titanic), not that the bay is any warmer and who wants to swim in a bay anyway????

Provincetown is a small, but lovely town with very cute narrow streets. There is nothing provincial about it - it seems to have the largest number of art galleries per square foot in the country. In fact, Provincetown is America’s oldest continuous art colony.

Some homes even look like an art gallery.

And finally, Provincetown is the number one destination for same sex weddings in America.

Ok, so back to lobster rolls! We went to 5 different places for them to see if they were made differently. The two worst ones were from restaurants that were famous for them. The best one was from a dumpy looking donut and cookie cafe on the pier. When they are made properly, (are you listening 2 famous restaurants), the mayonase is added at a minimum along with the spices and the hotdog bun is warm. When they are made according to our strict specifications (not kosher), they are a mouth full of heaven.


Provincetown is surrounded by sand dunes.

Guess who am I running away from?

No, it's not an oil painting -

The obligatory photo proving that she was there. Ok, actually this photo could have been taken anywhere and just added to this blog. Well, it wasn't, so pipe down you blog cynics!

At least with my photo, it looks like I'm actually there.

This was a part of a very long rock jetty that I somehow talked 'you know who' into walking. She never agreed to walk it blindfolded as I innocently suggested...

Provincetown wet lands and sand dunes are part of Cape Cod National Seashore Park, established in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy to protect ecologically fragile lands.

May be they are protecting it a little too much? Birds are everywhere and they are eating the muscles and clams that I could have had!

I was trying to take a photo of spent mussel shells when this bird got in my way, oh shew you detestable creature.

Notice how she is smiling. That is because it wasn't near dark yet and our 'precious one' had not, as of yet, started the long and arduous jurney up the slippery rocks of the jetty...

It doesn't matter how much she whined, it was well worth is to see the sunset over the wet lands.

Yes, it's sunset again, and yes, people like watching it, so get on with it, there's a good sport.

Herring Cove beach is a great place to watch sunset, but it's curios that the minute the sun goes down people take off, yet this is the time when the clouds look their finest, and the best shots can be taken.

I just can't get enough of myself!