You can sell your paintings on the sidewalk

Boston gets covered in the NYtimes travel section this week. Now, when (and if) friends come visit me, I won't be sure if they're coming to spend time with me, or they're just trying to avoid the $149 a night rate at the Hotel@MIT, but at least I'll have a slightly better idea of where to take them in Boston.

The adage "you can't get there from here" originated in New England, and sometimes in Boston you literally can't.