Mashpee

Mashpee is the last town that I had left to photograph on the Cape.  I'd been putting it off cause there really isn't anything to see, to be honest, and I researched the heck out of it too.  It's always been mostly residential and a just a small, somewhat run down town that you had to pass through to get to Falmouth.  No one really stopped in Mashpee, 'back in the day'.  Parts of it are quite nice though....all the waterfront properties in New Seabury are exclusive.   In the late 80s, an upscale shopping and movie theatre complex was built called Mashpee Commons and it's still there, but it's not terribly picturesque.  Now there are quite a few strip malls along Rte 28, which is the main road to Falmouth.  Mashpee is the traditional home of the Wampanoag Tribe and still has a large native population.  

First place we went was Popponesset Cove, a little salt water inlet off the south side of the Cape.

Next, we stopped at the Indian Meeting House which also has a graveyard.

I loved this arrowhead stone.

Some of the stones go waaayyyy back, and the names on them are the same names you hear in town now.  

We call Zachary's "The Mashpee Center of the Performing Arts", but it's really Cape Cod's only strip club.  This particular bit of town is really the armpit of the area.  

Then Russell took me over to one of the beaches at Mashpee Wakeby Lake, which straddles the border of Sandwich and Mashpee.  That's looking towards Sandwich's side.

The "country store" which is just a convenience store.  Nothing terribly quaint and it's not filled with country type items or crafts.  I think what qualifies it as a country store is that it has a wooden floor.

This is also Mashpee Wakeby, but at the boat ramp

We finished off our brief tour with lunch at Dino's Sports Bar.  They have pretty consistently good food and Russell likes to relax with some Keno.  

That's the last of the Cape Cod towns I had left to photograph.  One more bucket list item done.

Two Hearts Beat As One

Today, I married my best friend and the love of my life.

June-July project.  The rings were made by a silversmith in Michigan.

So happy to be taking his name!

And I get to be both for him!!!

An epic love story, 35 years in the making.

Wedding pics to follow.....

Bucket List Completions, So Far.....

I have a somewhat unrealistic bucket list with items that include the Unst Bus Shelter in the Shetland Islands and beachcombing in Iceland and the Falkland Islands.  I have some realistic goals of course...on Pinterest I broke them down into separate boards to include 'Local/Doable', 'Canada', 'Possible' and 'Unrealistic'. Then I decided to do a 'Bucket List: Done' pinboard, which includes things that weren't necessarily 'bucket list' items at the time they were done (I never even heard of that term till the movie came out), but pretty cool experiences.  And anyway it makes me feel better about my incomplete list items, to see all the things that have been done.  Kate over at Another Clean Slate, suggested that I do a blog post with some of the things or goals I've accomplished in my life.  I've tried to reach back to some obscure ones from awhile back as well as a few new ones.

In no particular order, except alphabetical which is the way the pictures were saved, are some highlights from that Pinboard (all photos used are web images).

Completed Project 365/Photo A Day for One Year, in 2012.

Volunteered with the American Indian Movement in 1992 in San Francisco, the 500 Years of Resistance campaign.  We did a protest on Columbus Day and I was invited to a sunrise ceremony on Thanksgiving Day in Dolores Park.  Also ran a Leonard Peltier Support Group out of my apartment in Marin for a few years, in those days.

Saw "Beach Blanket Babylon" in SF a few times in the 1990s....a must see musical that's been playing nonstop since the 1970s at Club Fugazi.  Cannot recommend this show enough.

Met Bob Weir & Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead in 1990.

July 4th in Boston, 1986.  Every major city has fireworks on the 4th but Boston really knows how to do it right.

Crossed the Capilano Suspension Bridge in North Vancouver, BC, 2006.  My desire for good pics overrode my fear of heights.  

Crossed the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel in 1976 (dad was driving us home from Florida).

Did a helicopter tour over Cannon Beach & Seaside, Oregon, summer 2005.  Again, wanted good pics.

Saw David Cassidy in concert, 2006. Have loved him since I was at least 6.

Met the Clash backstage at Cape Cod Coliseum after their concert in 1982.  

I appeared on a segment about the 1960s on 'Entertainment Tonight' in the fall of 1989.  We were interviewed on the way into Golden Gate Park for a free Jefferson Airplane/Bob Weir concert, which is another bucket list thing, to have seen a free show in GGP.

Been to a gay wedding, in SF, 2008

Went to three Grateful Dead New Years Eve shows in 1989, 90 and 91.

Been to Glass Beach in Fort Bragg in the 1990s, before they closed it to glass collectors. My best and rarest pieces are from here.

Visited Gorham, Kansas, in 1989, where my other fave movie, Paper Moon, was filmed.

Been to the Hearst Castle in California, in 1986 and 1988, driving down the Pacific Coast Highway 1 both times.

Saw Jake the Alligator Man at Marsh's Free Museum in Long Beach, WA, 2005

Saw Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore West and a free concert in Golden Gate Park, fall 1989

I'm somewhere in this huge crowd in Golden Gate Park for the incredible and free Laughter, Love & Music concert after Bill Graham died in the fall of 1991.  Musicians/bands included Journey, Santana, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, the Grateful Dead, John Fogerty singing Creedence songs with the Dead backing him, Joe Satriani and Joan Baez.

Trip to England in 12th grade, 1982, which included all of London, Windsor Castle, Oxford, a Shakespearean play in Stratford On Avon, Kent & the White Cliffs of Dover.  We also went to Paris but I absolutely hated France.

Rode the Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls when I was 11, in 1975.

Saw "Top Gun" at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, 1986.

Made glass marbles and glass beads at The Bead Factory in Tacoma, WA, 2005'ish.

Saw Nelson Mandela speak at the Oakland Coliseum in 1990.

Two Monkees shows (w/o Mike) in 1986.

Drove to the summit of Pikes Peak, CO.  This is a web image but this was the exact weather I encountered up there.  37 degrees and sleet in July, 1989.

Saw Pyramid Lake in Nevada, 1994.  It could not have been more anticlimactic.

Met Red Green in Renton, WA, 2002.

Among many other things I've done in NYC, I got to see the Rockettes' Easter show in 1978 at Radio City.

The only 2 NFL games I've been to were the 49ers at Candlestick Park.  I was there the day of the Oakland Hills Fire in 1991 and ash rained down on us all afternoon, and the smoke covered the sun so much that the stadium lights were turned on.  Also saw a couple of Giants games at The Stick.

Drove:  Across the USA west in 1989 and east in 2011, Florida to MA in 1976 (well dad drove), and California to Washington State in 1999.  These are all the states I've been to or through, thus far.  Saw lots and lots of cool stuff, even just flying down the highways at 75 mph.  

Crossed into Yosemite National Park from the lesser-used, but jaw dropping, magnificent eastern entrance, over Tioga Pass, in 1988. 

Been to Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood in 2008, which served as the external shots of The Overlook Hotel in 'The Shining', one of my fave movies.

There was no time to stop and see everything on the 2011 trip east, but Wall Drug in Wall, SD was a must see.

Wyeth family exhibits at the Brandywine Museum, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 1993.

Saw Yul Brynner in one of his last 'King & I' performances in Boston, 1984, just a couple of months before he died.

Participated in a Guiness Book of World Records attempt at creating the world's longest strand of beads, at Shipwreck Beads in Olympia, WA, December 26, 2009.  Our strand crushed the old record at almost a mile long.

This summer I hope to hit a few more on the Local/Doable Bucket List!!  Now if only I could win the lottery, I could see everything on every bucket list!!