There´s probably only one place in the world where The Dark Lord could walk free unapposed, and a Marilyn Monroe impersonator could get zombified without batting a heavily-made-up eyelid. That place is Salem, MA. We visited that place...
Salem is famous for its witch-burning history, which gives crazy people pretty much free reign to plow the public with psychic readings and incense wherever they go. Fun though. We had a great walk around the town (its not that big) seeing all the haunted houses, all gearing up for Halloween, which isn`t far away. We spent most of yesterday afternoon in the Peobody-Essex Museum, in the centre of Salem. It´s a beautifully designed art gallery, with important installations on all aspects of global art, stretching as far away as Oceanian earthenware.
Last night we stayed in with Maureen, Mark, Henry and Adrian, had a wonderful dinner, then rocked out on Guitar Hero. Today was another relaxing day, Charlie and I headed down to a private beach in Magnolia, sat on the dock of the bay (and sang about it), climbed some rocks, then headed in to Gloucester. Gloucester is a pretty little town, full of interesting shops, including record stores and the best-stocked second-hand book shop I have ever seen. After that Maureen took us to Manchester where we ate the best ice cream in the State. I haven´t tried much ice cream in Massachusetts, admittedly, but I doubt anything can beat the double chocolate brownie and ginger we had. (Charlie just informed me she actually had maple walnut and oreo cookie ice cream. I am assured it was delicious)
After a bit of travelling back in to the centre of Boston, in search of the mythical cheeto-niknak hybrid, we boarded a bus to Buffalo, which we´re on right now. Not an awful lot has happened. Charlie beat me at May-I (a card game), and we both ate M&Ms (what a life!), and thats about it.
Tomorrow morning we´ll wake up in Buffalo, near Niagara Falls, which is where we´ll next update you.
Ciao ciao,
Chris and Charlie
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