All close early-the used bookstores at 5PM and Concord Bookshop at 6PM-but the Concord Bookshop has a more interesting selection than Waldenbooks, and a very friendly staff.
You can barely see it from outside-it's just a doorway between two store fronts-but inside it covers a huge area.Ĭoncord has three bookstores: Concord Bookshop for new books and Barrow Book Store and Books with a Past for used. It's also what you could call a "Tardis bookshop"-larger on the inside than the outside. The latter is used books, interesting, and closes at 6PM. The former is open late, but very predictable and small (maybe four feet of philosophy, and about two on Judaism). Lexington has two bookstores: Waldenbooks and Books Upstairs. (And of course, there's another 800,000-word book in the hotel room anyway.) I did do the usual fannish thing: "What is the first thing a fan packs in her bag before a trip?" "Another bag to hold the books she buys." (Well, I also knew there would be training manuals.) But I exercised restraint and bought only thirteen books during the two weeks. Proof of my compulsiveness is that I was upset I forgot to pack two books, and so brought only nine-knowing I will be visiting used bookstores halfway through. Sample exchange from one one of the classes: "What's the symptom ?" "It's very slow." "It's always very slow. In class, the instructor mentioned that some process was "creating an illusion for you" and one woman said, "David Copperfield." I found myself thinking "Whether I am the hero of my own life." and wondering what Barkis and Murdstone had to do with all this before I realized that she meant the (current) magician. And only in America-the waiters in the Chinese restaurant were practicing saying "Maricon!" Luckily, Makaha is a reasonable Chinese restaurant. Nevertheless, I arrived in Concord, only to discover that there was only one restaurant open at 10PM on a Sunday night.
And it would be nice if people leaving the airport knew they were going to need to pull out $2 for the tunnel and 50 cents for the turnpike toll, before they arrived at the toll plazas. Helpful hint: a Blockbuster card works as well as a credit card in clearing frost from a windshield-though probably not ice-and has no magnetic stripe to worry about.īoston's "Big Dig" has added to the confusion in leaving the airport and getting on to (say) the turnpike, though admittedly this was always confused. I think my request for a compact car threw them, since everything in the "Emerald Aisle" row (which presumably had been checked) was full-sized. My experience with National Car Rental at Logan Airport was very poor-the first two cars I selected were dead (wouldn't even turn over), and the one I ended up with had no snow brush/ice scraper (the other two did), and gunk on the inside rear-view mirror. Well, at least the schedule reflects this. So why is the gap between scheduled departure and scheduled arrival an hour and a half? Because there's also 45 minutes of queueing time at Newark. Venting: It takes 38 minutes of flying time to get from Newark to Boston. This is because I find a combination of weird things, and reasons to vent. LeeperĮvery time I go on a business trip, I figure I don't need to do a trip log. My Trip to Lexington and Concord (and Amherst, and Hatfield, and Chicopee, and My Trip to Lexington and Concord (and Amherst, and Hatfield, andĬhicopee, and.
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