Sleep Hollow Motor Inn Woods Hole, MA

Okay, this really should be the last trip that I’m taking on this round of research, then it’s more writing. I’m at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, MA today and tomorrow until mid-afternoon. For those who may not be familiar with it, that’s about a 1.5 hour drive from Logan Airport in Boston and if we’d taken a turn, we’d be headed for the ferry to Martha’s Vineyard. It’s a beautiful day, but that 7:00 a.m. flight did come with a bit of an early wake-up. Not that I’m not up at 4:00 a.m. some mornings when no travel is involved. I’ll try to get a scenic harbor shot tomorrow, but it is interesting to see how spread out the Institute is. I had been told that it “rambles” significantly and now I understand. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in Fort Pierce, FL has defined space that you enter into. I suppose that maybe some part of WHOI (as the folks call it) might have, but most are buildings and trailers scattered between houses, restaurants, and retail areas. It’s a tourist-type town with the classic New England seaside look.

I saw some great shipwreck footage today as one of the men who was on the expedition that located Titanic back in 1985 demonstrated some of the things they do with imaging and how underwater cameras have progressed. Virtually all of it is beyond my grasp, so I’m sure there will be a number of emails that will pass back and forth for “fact checking” as I work through that part of the book. This gentleman, like a couple of others that I have interviewed, has been diving and exploring in every continent except Antarctica. And no, he’s had so many great adventures, he can’t pick out a favorite. Which if being a part of the team that found Titanic doesn’t immediately come to mind as the best that he ever experienced, I can only imagine what else he has seen.

Anyway, it will be another full day tomorrow because I’m taking the 5:00 p.m. out of Boston, so probably won’t make it home until pushing 10:00 p.m. The thing is though, that as interesting as it has been to meet the people that I have been talking with, I’m ready to be done with the travel part. The Sleepy Hollow Inn where I’m staying is an old-fashioned type of place and I’ll do a post about it when I return home. Not sure where we’re going for dinner tonight, but I suppose that seafood might be in order.