Taking A Serious Vacation To Cape Cod
By Joe Goertz
When going on vacation, you can just go to Cape Cod or you can
really enjoy yourself and take a serious Cape Cod vacation. By
serious, I mean that you need to go the way of many students,
craftsmen, and others, who take on Cape Cod for the entire
summer – working a job and living in one of the most
awe-inspiring and fascinating places in the U.S. I was one of
those adventurers and spent a summer with a couple of friends
just hanging out in Cape Cod, living an amazing life there. It
was about thirty years ago but I remember it like it was
yesterday. What a fabulous summer we had!
My friends and I rented some rooms from a guy who fished for a
living and his wife. They lived in P-town, what the locals call
Provincetown. We had a few odd jobs that we did during the day,
like being a maid, doing carpentry work, etc., but when the day
turned into night, we started partying. We basically partied the
night away and met some great people along the way. We hung out
with the townies and had an experience that would rival any
planned vacation to Cape Cod. We screwed around, going dune
hopping with jeeps that had the air flattened out of the tires.
The pools were a great hangout, too. Many of the pools we went
to were halfway between the bars and the beach and that suited
us just fine.
The beauty of this kind of vacation is that we could also
pretend we were one of the regular tourists and attend all the
high class art shows, shop all the tourist shops and eat all of
the amazing summer treats Cape Cod has to offer. I though I’d
burst on all the fudge and cotton candy I ate that summer.
The folks in Provincetown live out on the tip of a peninsula
and are some of the nicest, laid back people you’d ever want to
meet. They’re the folks who slave all winter long making artwork
and crafts so the tourists have something to buy when they get
there on their summer vacation.
There are a lot of nearby towns to travel through, too. Towns
like Hyannis, Woods Hole and the like, have a lot to offer as
well. You’ll have plenty of towns to explore. Massachusetts is
small enough that you can explore nearly the entire state
before the summer is done.
No matter how long you spend in Cape Cod, one of the must-sees
is a ferry boat ride over to Martha’s Vineyard. Nantucket is in
that area as well. These are places where only the wealthy and
well-established live. There are places to visit on this tour
that really take you back to the colonial times.
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