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With six days you probably want to take a day trip to Providence Rhode Island. That's where the huge mansions of the old robber barons are preserved as museums. It's touristy, but if you go down to the harbor you can get a ride on any number of 30-50 foot sailboats. This time of the year the wind and weather will be perfect for really cutting some waves. One of my wife's and my favorite memories is a day trip to Providence where we stumbled onto a beautiful old fashioned three master right out of mutiny on the Bounty and we took the cruise. The captain kept smiling at the crew and giving them permission to put out a little more sail until the crew was smiling ear to ear and we had every sheet of sail on the masts. It was a memory to last a lifetime.

Go down there and find one of the old wood sailing boats. Tell the captain you want a sail that is the kind of sail he wants. If he flashes a pleasantly surprised smile at at you and says "You bet!" You know you've found the right cruise. Stop at the boat dock on the way home and buy the freshest lobster off the boat in the world. The lobster I steamed and ate that night is still the best I've ever tasted.

Another thing to go for is Plymouth Rock and Mayflower Pilgrim Village. The USS Constitution in Boston Harbor. Lexington and Concord. A day trip to Bear State Park in New Hampshire. And of course a day trip to the Cape. It will be too cold to swim but perfect for walking. Walk Harvard Yard.

Oy vey. I wish I was going with you.