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Boston College - trip in review
Oct 20, 2014, 3:08 PM
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My trip to BC was awesome. Though it was my 2nd trip to the BC game, it was the first time I stayed in Boston. Let me tell you, I LOVED IT! We stayed in Beacon Hill and walked or took the T everywhere. I could really get used to that!
Such a beautiful place!
Friday afternoon we walked through the Boston Common to The Old North Church and took a tour of the Bell Ringing Chamber (which is not even half-way up to where the lantern lighter would have had to travel back in the day!) and the Crypt. There are 1100 souls buried under that church. It was a tad creepy, but I loved every minute of the tour!
Behind the church was a display they have made with blank dog tags, representing every soldier lost in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was a beautiful display – and as the wind blew, it sounded like wind chimes with all the dog tags rustling in the wind.
Friday night we attended the New England Clemson Club's event at Top of the Hub restaurant in Prudential Tower. It was PHENOMENAL. For $25 you got some free Clemson goodies (as usual!), appetizers, dinner, and adult beverages. There were over 600 Clemson people there!
The view from “Top of the Hub” - the glowing thing in the middle is Fenway Pahk.
Saturday we went to tour Fenway Pahk. We got there at 9:50am and the 10am tour was sold out - actually, we watched 2 Tigers right in front of us buy the last 2 tickets! We decided that "tailgating" was more important to us than waiting to tour at 11am. And, as a non-baseball, non-Red Sox fan, walking around the outside was atually all I needed. If you've ever see "Fever Pitch" you may, like me, feel the exact same way Jimmy Falon does in that movie on "Tickets in the Mail day" when your Clemson football season tickets arrive  In any case, being at Fenway made me feel much closer to Jimmy Falon 
We headed over to Citiside bar near BC and "tailgated" for a few hours. We had the best waitress (Danielle) who even wore orange earrings and a Clemson tiger paw sticker! She knew where her tips were coming from! We left a little early so we could walk around some of BC's campus - it was absolutely breathtaking. The architecture is to die for. Beautiful buildings and beautiful landscape. Some BC fans we passed even told us they put up the orange plastic construction fence just for us! The BC tailgating...well, you can see by the photos that it was very, very minimal.
Pregame: the BC band welcomed us by playing Tiger Rag to our side of the stadium. I have to say that was, by far, one of the coolest moments I've experienced at an away game!
The game, well we know how that went. I would like to take a minute to say that overall I was quite disappointed in the Clemson contingent. We probably had 8000 or more there, and in a small stadium like that, that filled up late, we could have easily disrupted their offense more than we did if our fans had been yelling like it was last week vs. Louisville in Death Valley. We had plenty of people there to do it. But for most of the time it seemed my friend and I (and a group of 4-6 guys a few rows down) were the only ones yelling. I think maybe I should start bringing ear plugs for people who sit around me. Because I am yelling on every defensive down, all day, every day. I will say, maybe it was the rain, I don't know. But FINALLY in the 4th quarter people started getting up and being a little more vocal. I barely have a voice still today; and I hope it's rested by this weekend when The Orange come to town.
After the game we headed over to The North End to eat some Italian for dinner. That place is INSANE. Lines out of every door at 8pm still waiting to get inside. We hit the jackpot and found a place that had a table and didn't have to wait but a few minutes. GOOD EATS.
(took a picture so we’d remember where to eat next trip!)
Sunday we took a narrated tour along The Freedom Trail. We had a "redcoat" as our tour guide, and he took us from Boston Common to Fanuiel Hall.
Afterwards we went to "The Barking Crab" to eat lunch, which we had heard was good. IT WAS!!
Then, we hit up some gift shops and watched some football in the tavern before heading out to the airport. As we were crossing the street near some construction, a cop was directing traffic - he said "A little fah from Death Valley, ahn't we?"
I'm exhausted but loved every minute. I wear an "UP" which tracks steps - for the 3 days, I walked over 58,000 steps - the equivalent of just over 28 miles. (just so you know, 10,000 steps - or 5 miles - is the "minimum" one is to aim for every day).
I look forward to my next trip up there. It was WICKED AWESOME!
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Re: Boston College - trip in review
Oct 20, 2014, 3:14 PM
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Great report Suzi. I love Boston. Have many friends that live there and always have a great time. Especially love summers and taking the ferry to the Cape. Have always found the Bahstan folks to be good people
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If it wasn't so far from Clemson, I could live there.***
Oct 20, 2014, 3:16 PM
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Boston is a great place to visit but I couldn't live there..
Oct 20, 2014, 4:14 PM
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The cost of living is outrageous and owning a car is just not feasible. Heck, the parking alone can run you between $500 and $1,000 per month.
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We went 4 years ago - EASILY my favorite Clemson road
Oct 20, 2014, 3:29 PM
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trip. Staying in Boston makes all the difference. In a previous life, I went there often on business - it is truly a fantastic city!
Your update made me wish I had made the trip....
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Re: Boston College - trip in review
Oct 20, 2014, 3:30 PM
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Thanks sizing for sharing your trip with us! Sounds like a great time!!!
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Did you call them Bit**** for Burning down Atlanta?
Oct 20, 2014, 3:35 PM
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Some of us ain't forgot that s***
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When Generral Sherman burned-down Atlanta and Columbia...
Oct 20, 2014, 3:57 PM
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little did we know he was trying to do us all a HUGE favor.
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He was a one man chicken curse !***
Oct 20, 2014, 4:01 PM
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Re: Boston College - trip in review
Oct 20, 2014, 3:36 PM
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Thank you for sharing... Loved all the pics!!!
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One of the things I always say about being in the ACC vs any
Oct 20, 2014, 3:36 PM
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other conference is the towns you can visit are awesome.
Sure, if you're in the Big Ten or the SEC, you'll get bigger stadiums or better tailgating. And that does count for something, but in the ACC we can drive to GT, VT, NCSU, UNC, Wake and Duke easily and be back in no time. And then the longer trips put you in Miami, Boston, Louisville, Pittsburgh, and...kinda...New York (closer, anyway). You can really see a different type of place and get a ton out of a weekend there.
Again, if you live for the 80,000+ stadiums, I get it. But it isn't everything. Back when people were talking about possibly going to play in the Big 12, there were some horrible boring looking places to visit. The ACC is much better.
Great report. Thanks for posting. Boston is awesome.
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Re: Boston College - trip in review
Oct 20, 2014, 3:57 PM
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I was in Boston a few weeks ago, and if anyone is a baseball fan, you have to make it to a game at Fenway...
for me, it was breathtaking walking through the portal and into the seating area just to look around and feel the history.
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Legend [18519]
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Great pics ! Thanks for sharing.***
Oct 20, 2014, 4:00 PM
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Re: Boston College - trip in review
Oct 20, 2014, 4:12 PM
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Love stuff like this. Thanks for sharing suzi
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Re: Boston College - trip in review
Oct 20, 2014, 4:13 PM
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Great pictures & great review......thanks for sharing!
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Re: Boston College - trip in review
Oct 20, 2014, 4:16 PM
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Great pics & descriptions. It makes me miss home.
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Re: Boston College - trip in review - THANK YOU!
Oct 20, 2014, 4:21 PM
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Thanks so much for sharing your trip with us!
ENJOYED! And a PICS worth a 1000 words...
Great pics!
'aggravating that you didn't have more YELL support.
Thanks again!
GO TIGERS!!!
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Glad you enjoyed your trip!
Oct 20, 2014, 4:35 PM
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Suzi, what an awesome recap of your trip! My husband (a Clemson Alum) and I live in SC, but we couldn't make the trip up to Boston this year. I lived in a bunch of Boston neighborhoods after graduating (including Beacon Hill and the North End) so it was so fun to see your pics! Thanks for posting them! Glad you had a great time....just wish we could have pulled off the W. Maybe next year.... Good luck the rest of the season!
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Awesome post suzi! However, GWPTiger
Oct 20, 2014, 4:39 PM
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wood like to know if you saw the Liberty Bell?
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that's not what he asked... .he asked if they saw
Oct 20, 2014, 4:53 PM
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the White House
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Thanks, Suzi! I'm going in November. Now I know what to see.***
Oct 20, 2014, 4:43 PM
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fyi the Government Center stop on the blue line is closed
Oct 20, 2014, 7:17 PM
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For renovations and they don't advertise that very much. I found myself, the tourist, having to tell people that several times over the weekend.
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Re: fyi the Government Center stop on the blue line is closed
Oct 21, 2014, 2:12 PM
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Yea they're doing massive renovations to hopefully liven up what is a pretty bleak expanse of brick. The stinks they haven't posted that very clearly.
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Great report....sounds like fun.***
Oct 20, 2014, 7:22 PM
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Wow, that was an awesome trip. The pictures are
Oct 20, 2014, 7:30 PM
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great and BC's campus buildings look spectacular.
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great report. This is the first time we missed it in 6 years
Oct 20, 2014, 7:33 PM
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If you're looking for a Clemson road trip this one should be on your bucket list
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Just got home, and this was the first post I read. Thanks
Oct 20, 2014, 7:35 PM
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for the photos and report and for making my evening.
Glad you had a great trip!
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That's delightful, Suzi.
Oct 20, 2014, 7:41 PM
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It made me feel like I'd been back to Boston. It really looked like the only thing that change in the past three decades is the automobiles.
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Suzi - you are a jewel! Great work!***
Oct 20, 2014, 7:59 PM
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Re: Boston College - trip in review
Oct 20, 2014, 8:20 PM
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Suzi, thank you so much for documenting the trip here. I know it is a great deal of work, but it sure is nice for some of us "far flung tiggers" (Scottsdale for this SC boy).
I wish there were more fans that could put together this kind of "photo blog" about their road trips, it would be FANTASTIC.
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Thanks for sharing!
Oct 20, 2014, 8:21 PM
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Great pics & trip report - felt like I was there! And thanks to you and the few others for representin' and cheering the team on to victory there in the stadium - GO TIGERS!
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Re: Boston College - trip in review
Oct 20, 2014, 11:20 PM
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Glad you enjoyed your trip suzi and thanks for posting the pictures. ..looks great, wish more people on here did this so for people like me that don't get to go to places like this get to actually see what it's like...thank you
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Re: Boston College - trip in review
Oct 21, 2014, 1:02 AM
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Does anybody know the connection to South Carolina in the 10th picture down with the street sign "Yawkey Way"?.
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A chain of islands off the coast of Georgetown,
Oct 21, 2014, 8:01 PM
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South Carolina make up the Yawkey Heritage Preserve, a nature preserve formed from land willed to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources by Tom Yawkey. It consists of North and South Islands and a majority of Cat Island.
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Re: A chain of islands off the coast of Georgetown,
Oct 21, 2014, 8:30 PM
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Mr. and Mrs. Yawkey were also major benefactors to the Georgetown Memorial Hospital, The Yawkey Cancer Center and Tara Hall (an orphanage near Georgetown).
Clemson and The Yawkey Foundation are currently working on hiring a jointly sponsored Wildlife Biology Professor.
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Re: A chain of islands off the coast of Georgetown,
Oct 21, 2014, 9:45 PM
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Congrats to all the Georgetown people who know of Tom Yawkey, who owned the Boston Red Sox and Yawkey Plantation south of Georgetown. His property was mainly South Island and another fine water front property on Black River. I have been told that he had an interest in the Sunset Lodge that was on Hwy 17 just south of Georgetown. Do any of the old Tigernetters remember the Sunset Lodge? I am not asking if you ever visited that fine establishment.......
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thanks for posting, and thanks for including the very
Oct 21, 2014, 4:09 AM
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neat pic's.
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Looks beautiful. Glad we pulled out the w so u could enjoy!***
Oct 21, 2014, 10:53 PM
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Went to Boston in 2005 for our first conference game there
Oct 21, 2014, 7:07 AM
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And fell in love with the city. I could absolutely live there, no doubt. It immediately became one of my favorite places. I haven't been back in quite some time, but really want to take my family up one day for a vacation/away game.
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Looks a bit rundown!
Oct 21, 2014, 7:23 AM
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Historic city! Give me Charleston anyday
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Re: Looks a bit rundown!
Oct 21, 2014, 2:37 PM
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C'mon now. There's a lot of things that describe Boston, but run-down is not one of them.
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Charleston and Boston remind me a lot of each other
Oct 22, 2014, 7:30 AM
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But run down? That's a bit harsh. Boston is a beautiful city with an incredible downtown and an incredible historic district and overall vibe. Sure it's going to have its unpleasant and not-sparkly places, but so does Charleston. Boston's also what, 5-6 times bigger than Charleston?
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Re: Looks a bit rundown!
Oct 22, 2014, 7:32 AM
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smfh, you ever been to boston. didnt think so.
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