Editor Pick
Mayflower II
- September 5, 2000
- Rated 4 of 5 by
Peregrine from , New Mexico
It’s a tidy looking little ship tied up at Town Wharf and swarming with 17th century seamen readying the ship for the return voyage to England. Like Plimouth Plantation, this is a living museum and you can go aboard and talk to the 'crew' as they go about their chores.
The quarters shared by the 102 passengers, who spent 66 days here sailing toward freedom and the unknown, are cramped and dark and stuffy (and I thought the cabins on the Queen Mary were a bit tight). You have to admire the determination of these people crowded into the 'tween decks area. There was little privacy other than blankets hung as curtains between the piles of their worldly belongings separating one family from the next.
If you're claustrophobic, this probably isn't the tour you'd want to take, though it is fascinating to get a glimpse into the past.
From journal Hunting Up the Past