Lev Lazinskiy

Boston Massachusetts

Aosheng and I packed our bags and left the warm comforts of California to explore Boston at the tail end of their winter. We spent a few days playing tourist and then were joined by my best friends Mike and Bell that weekend where we spent the next two days being geeks at the LibrePlanet conference.

Trip Dates

How We Got There

How We Got Around

Where We Stayed

What We Did

The next day, we had breakfast at the Envoy hotel and went exploring. First we went to the State Capitol, it was absolutely marvelous. Next we went to the Tea Party museum which was a bit cheesy but surprisingly entertaining. We ended the evening at a theatre and watched a production of Finish Line which is a very moving documentary play about the Boston Marathon bombing.

The following day we went to the JFK Presidential Library, the small neighboring Commonwealth museum, and ended the day spending 5 hours at the Museum of Fine Art. On Friday morning we had crab cakes, lobster rolls, and clam chowder for lunch before visiting the Institute of Contemporary Art, which we got into for free since we recently became members of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

On Friday evening Mike and Bell arrived. We met them at South Street Station and after switching hotels to Cambridge we had an amazing Italian dinner at the North End of Boston.

We spent the rest of the weekend at the LibrePlanet conference in Cambridge. We had the pleasure of meeting up with Mahmood, one of our co workers at CircleCI, for a lovely vegetarian dinner with his family. Before leaving Boston we stopped at Mike’s Pastry and had some delicious and fattening desserts.

What Was The Fuss?

The winters in Boston are brutal. Especially for us spoiled Californians. Many of the activities, including the historic walking tours are nearly impossible to do during the winter so I feel like we missed out a bit. It is most certainly a place that I would love to visit again during a warmer season.