Pike's Awesome Journey Across America

 Sunday  May 29th We were able to attend church close to our campground. That small branch was the friendliest of any ward yet!! Sad to leave Cape Cod behind but onto our next adventure.  I wish I could describe how beautiful it was! If you drive the one main road, that goes up the center, all you see is green & homes & businesses tucked in the foliage. You have to get off the road in each town to really see it. Most places you even have to get off to see the beaches. It's not too commercial. It was very pretty!  Steve & I have seen  Plymouth Rock before. It is hard finding parking in a small town with crowds of people, so we went out to the Pilgrim Monument. It was dedicated to the Pilgrims after being finished in 1889. I'm going to use the actual description below: On the main pedestal stands the heroic figure of "Faith" with her right hand pointing toward heaven [5]  and her left hand clutching the Bible. Upon the four buttresses also are sea...

 We journeyed up to Provincetown, which is the most northern point on Cape Cod. The monument to the Pilgrim Landing is so tall! As the Pilgrims in the Mayflower were heading south, they found very rough seas & almost shipwrecked. They stopped here, but after 6 weeks continued to Plymouth. The soil was too sandy here. But this is the place where the men signed the Mayflower Compact. Like everyone else, Steve & I both have quite a few Mayflower people. One stands out of mine.  His name was John Alden & he was a Cooper (barrel maker) who worked his way over here. He was one of the first signers of the Mayflower Compact. He became the Governor's Assistant for many years. He helped found the town of Duxbury & this is a pic of his house. In 2015 when we went back east I got to see this house & the Graveyard. OK back to the Museum. President Taft attended this. Built 1907-1910 The Museum had a lot of displays on whaling. When the Whaling industry was waning, Provi...