Provincetown and the Pilgrim Monument & Museum on Cape Cod

 

6/9/21

 

Today we moved onto Cape Cod and we are staying at Old Chatham Campground. It’s in South Dennis, so that makes it a sort of center of travel around the Cape.

 

6/10/21

 

First stop of the day was at the Highland Lighthouse, which as you can see was under repair.

Then we headed up to Provincetown, which is at the tip of the Cape. There is lots to see and do up there. We stopped at the visitor’s center for the Cape Cod National Seashore and got the Passport Book stamped. Then we headed for Provincetown where we were going to eat lunch. Turns out that most of the better eating places are down along the main street in town where the street is about a lane and ½ wide and parking is rare, especially for our beast of a truck!. We ended up going back to a public parking lot, where we paid $20 in advance, and then walked back towards all the action. Since we had just driven the street, we had a pretty good idea of what was available, so we just had to make up our minds (4 of them) what we wanted to eat. One of the first places we came to had something for everyone, so in we went. If it had been night time, the place probably would have been hopping, but as it was the middle of the day, it was pretty quiet, which suited us just fine.

These pictures were on the wall within the area where our booth was at the restaurant

 

After lunch we walked down the street and window shopped, didn’t spend any money, just looked. When we were done looking, Jenn and I went back to the truck and Phil & Rick went up the hill to climb the Pilgrim Monument.

This is the narrow street we were trying to drive down earlier

This motorcycle looks like it drags it's rear end a lot. Never seen a low rider cycle before.

 

The Monument was built from 1907-1910 to commemorate the first landing of the Mayflower Pilgrims in Provincetown on November 21, 1620. The tower is 252 feet, 7.5 inches tall (77 meters) and rises 350 feet above sea level. The walk to the top of 116 steps and 60 ramps only takes about 10 minutes at a leisurely pace, or so says the brochure. Phil says that’s BS, it took him and Rick much longer than that!!

 

President Theodore Roosevelt laid the corner stone on August 20, 1907. President William H Taft led the dedication ceremony after the Monument’s completion on August 5, 1910

Looking back down from where they came from

The view from the top

Cities from all over donated stones to the tower