The good:
Cape Cod’s North Shore is full of
- quaking bogs
- anadromous fish runs
- salt marshes
- other places known as “critical habitats“
Cape Cod’s South Shore is full of
- fried-clam-shacks
- taffy shops
- miniature golf
- other places known as “tourist traps.”
I absolutely love both kinds of places.
The bad:
Little-bitty teentsy-beentsy roads, filled up with stop-and-go traffic. Amazingly (to this veteran Boston driver) other cars stop to let you into their lane!
The ugly (do you really want to know?):
In all of the mid-Cape region where I was staying, the only Web-connection was one (1) Kinko’s in Hyannis–with exactly three (3) computers. Of these, one (1) was busy. One (1) was a Mac, still using OS 9 (nine).
The third (3rd)–a nice young man warned me–had a “problem” with printing. I soon found out why–it was completely offline–no printer, no server–and no (zip, zero, 0, also zilch) Internet connection!
God bless the old Mac, where I slowly emptied my totally full hotmail mailbox, and even posted Gollum to this blog.