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Airports. New addition to the SA airport, shot an image, Gate A1A, always a Jimmy Buffett reference, more than 50 years later. Still applies.
“What would Jimmy Buffett do?”
Go to Fenway?
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Joe’s on Newbury.
No.
“But it looks good?”
Top menu item, “Chili with beans.” I have to draw that cultural line someplace. “Chili with beans” is called stew. Or soup. Guess I’ll never know.
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A fishing buddy, back in San Antonio, but he was originally from Chicago, he recommended the Wrigley Field Tour before one of the games. Excellent idea, well-worth the cost and expense.
History, trivia, behind the scenes, and more, much more. As Hunter S. Thompson said?
“Buy the ticket, take the ride”
Well worth it, first at Wrigley, but even more so at Fenway.
I think he got one fact incorrect, but I’m not splitting details. The Boston Braves, the tour guide suggested, were founded in 1875. Back of a fan’s shirt? “The Boston Braves, 1871.” From my cursory research, a quick web check? 1871. Wasn’t going to challenge the guide. Near the end, the Fenway guide used the exact same joke the guide at Wrigley used, about the biggest fans and the windiest city.
“San Francisco: they are Giant fans.”
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I have one Red Sox shirt and a single Red Sox hat, and I think, I kept thinking I wanted another, but price, travel constraints and the merchandise?
Take nothing but pictures, leave only footprints.
Team store is excellent, though. Love the historical context.
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Been five years? Stopped for a lobster roll at Lobstah on a Roll. While memory is weak? As near as I could tell, nothing had changed. Nothing at all. Prices have gone up, cost of fuels and transporting fresh lobster, but other than that? Looked exactly the same. Like, a huge portion of lobster claw, then assorted bits, wrapped in warm, buttery goodness.
All on a toasted, fresh-baked roll.
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Chicago might be known for their hot dogs, and I like the Chicago Style hotdog, but the Fenway Franks? A soft roll, like the one used for Lobster Rolls? Split across the top, and the dogs fresh out of the steamer? Excellent.
Not what I recall from the last time I was here, but the hot dogs, the Fenway Frank, was after a midday lobster roll, so that made it better by compassion. Not better than a lobster roll, but a better ballpark hot dogs than most.
Figured out why Boston’s Red Sox are at the bottom, at the moment: ketchup on hot dogs. Just, no, just no.
Ask the Pope about that.
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Jimmy Buffett’d A1A
