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Our top attractions near Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Cape Cod National Seashore and Provincetown

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  Growing up in New York City, Cape Cod always seemed like a place so far away.  Popularized by famous novels like Moby Dick (set in Nantucket/New Bedford) and also by it being the playground of the rich & the famous ( Martha’s Vinyard ), it was a place that begged to be explored and also admired from afar. Although my wife and I got a glimpse of Cape Cod some 20+ years ago (Plymouth), we always wanted to see more of the area for as long as we can remember.  That chance finally came, when we managed to get a month long Airbnb rental in a sleepy fishing town called Fairhaven , just 30 minutes from Cape Cod. We finally got to enjoy a summer (well, a month actually) in the famous Cape Cod area, with its cool breezy evenings, and bright sunny days, making it ideal for exploring the Cape.  Using Fairhaven as our home base, we spent many of those sunny days exploring different destinations, two of which we explored on a single trip. The two destinations we explored ...
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A month long stay near Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Top attractions visited including Plymouth, downtown Providence, and Fort Phoenix State Reservation

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  Plymouth Rock, Plymouth, Massachusetts  Henry David Thoreau:  “A man may stand there and put all America behind…” My first introduction to the Cape Cod area of Massachusetts started just about a year after my family immigrated to the United States.  I was then an impressionable 10 year old, and a friend of the family took myself and my brother on a 2 nights/3 days trip to Boston, Plymouth,  and Cape Cod . The reason why he did that was to sort of pay us back for helping him out with his outside flea market stall in Brooklyn, NY .  We did sales and kept a watch over the stall for several days. We didn’t expect that kind of reward for our few days worth of work, so we were both befuddled but super excited.  I mean, it wasn’t like he didn’t pay us for those few days of labor. Anyway, long story short, my brother and I were whisked away, traveling, for us at the time, practically first class.  We stayed at a nice downtown hotel in Boston, and we g...
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