I’m originally from a small town on Cape Cod, Mass. In the summer, the boyfriend (let’s just call him.. M) and I spend most of our weekends there. And why not? It’s great to get away from the city. There’s nothing like feeling the ocean breeze, driving just a few minutes to the beach, and eating as much fresh seafood as we can stuff ourselves with. It’s completely worth the two hour (or sometimes more) drive.
Boston is great, but there are a lot of ties here that seem to hold us down on weekends. Work, rent, roommates, noisy city-ness. It’s inescapable when we spend our weekends here. Friday ends and Monday begins, yet it all stays the same.
Once we cross over the Sagamore, it all seems to melt away. We can plan our days as freely as we want, and the stresses of city life are pushed away until Sunday night. Days consist of iced coffee, sun, sand, puppies (my parents have amazingly cute dogs), and baseball. Does anyone else have a ‘happy place’, like this? A place where you can relax and be free of all of life’s little worries? I’d recommend it to everyone, a place where one can go to recharge and remember what life is all about. It’s the simple things.
