06/09/17 - Day 67 - Boston, MA - Boston College
Boston College (established 1863) is a private Jesuit school about six miles from downtown and five miles from where I'm staying in Cambridge. I took a bike trip to check out the campus and the football stadium.
BC is a small school with a little less than 15,000 graduate and undergraduate students. Their football team is in the Atlantic Coast Conference. They play the likes of Florida State and Virginia Tech, so that's how I know of them. I actually saw them play in Jacksonville when the city hosted the ACC championship game against Virginia Tech back in 2007.
BC's football stadium holds about 45,000 people and uses artificial turf. The gates were open, allowing me (and some other folks) to take a look around. I was surprised to see that they removed the turf during the offseason.
The proximity to downtown provides a nice view from top row of the end zone seats.
Doug Flutie is arguably BC's best known player as he was the quarterback responsible for the last second Hail Mary TD pass to upset the National Champion Miami Hurricanes in 1984.
He went on the to win the Heisman trophy that year. As such, his number was featured prominently at the stadium.
The main campus just west of the stadium is absolutely beautiful (much prettier than Harvard) as it features many collegiate gothic style buildings.
Gasson Hall (1913)
Devlin Hall (1924)
Front of Gasson Hall and the Bapst Library (back, then front)
BC had an unusual campus component consisting of several what appear to be private residences that have been converted into offices and organizations, most of which appear to be dedicated to religious studies and missionary work.
After a few hours touring around I started to head back home. On the way I took a detour south through the Hammond Pond reservation area, which was a mistake because it was getting towards sunset and the park with populated with a great host of very hungry mosquitos.
I got through it as quickly as possible and headed through Brookline on the way back to Cambridge. I passed the Brookline Reservoir and decided to take another detour. This one was a lot more pleasant as the mosquitos were not nearly so prevalent. The reservoir had a wide jogging/bike track around it that provided some pretty views of the pending sunset.
I saw some unusual movement in the water and waited for it to get a little closer to find out what was causing it. Thought it was a snake at first. Then a beaver. Turns out it was a muskrat. Not sure if we have those in Florida, but I don't recall ever seeing one.
Also had some chipmunk live action. I thought it was about to run up my leg there for a moment. They're pretty plentiful up here, but they're still pretty new to me.
Another good day trip. I'm starting to get the appeal of this place when the weather is nice. The whole city appears to be walking and bicycle friendly. Not sure how much I'd like it in January though.
BC is a small school with a little less than 15,000 graduate and undergraduate students. Their football team is in the Atlantic Coast Conference. They play the likes of Florida State and Virginia Tech, so that's how I know of them. I actually saw them play in Jacksonville when the city hosted the ACC championship game against Virginia Tech back in 2007.
BC's football stadium holds about 45,000 people and uses artificial turf. The gates were open, allowing me (and some other folks) to take a look around. I was surprised to see that they removed the turf during the offseason.
The proximity to downtown provides a nice view from top row of the end zone seats.
Doug Flutie is arguably BC's best known player as he was the quarterback responsible for the last second Hail Mary TD pass to upset the National Champion Miami Hurricanes in 1984.
He went on the to win the Heisman trophy that year. As such, his number was featured prominently at the stadium.
The main campus just west of the stadium is absolutely beautiful (much prettier than Harvard) as it features many collegiate gothic style buildings.
Gasson Hall (1913)
Devlin Hall (1924)
Front of Gasson Hall and the Bapst Library (back, then front)
BC had an unusual campus component consisting of several what appear to be private residences that have been converted into offices and organizations, most of which appear to be dedicated to religious studies and missionary work.
After a few hours touring around I started to head back home. On the way I took a detour south through the Hammond Pond reservation area, which was a mistake because it was getting towards sunset and the park with populated with a great host of very hungry mosquitos.
I got through it as quickly as possible and headed through Brookline on the way back to Cambridge. I passed the Brookline Reservoir and decided to take another detour. This one was a lot more pleasant as the mosquitos were not nearly so prevalent. The reservoir had a wide jogging/bike track around it that provided some pretty views of the pending sunset.
I saw some unusual movement in the water and waited for it to get a little closer to find out what was causing it. Thought it was a snake at first. Then a beaver. Turns out it was a muskrat. Not sure if we have those in Florida, but I don't recall ever seeing one.
Also had some chipmunk live action. I thought it was about to run up my leg there for a moment. They're pretty plentiful up here, but they're still pretty new to me.
Another good day trip. I'm starting to get the appeal of this place when the weather is nice. The whole city appears to be walking and bicycle friendly. Not sure how much I'd like it in January though.
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