I'll be heading to Cape Cod in a week, for about a week and looking for any suggestions on places to eat, sights to see, etc.
Looking forward to eating some east coast lobster while actually on the east coast.
As always, appreciate your input.
Side note: I'll be flying in/out and rental car-ingit.
Sir,
#1 Find a place that is right next to a fleet of fishing boats/lobstermen and has a big sign out front that says that it is a "Fish Company" or a "Lobster Company" (not a restaurant); check to see if they cook on the premises. Buy your food there and eat there even if there is no dining area; eat in the parking lot if you have to, take it back to your domicile and pull up a chair on the patio. That is where you will get the freshest, best seafood at a fraction of the cost of an overpriced restaurant with waiters who'll mark you for a tourist if you ask for "an east coast lobster" as they'll say "That's all we serve here; there's no such thing as a west coast lobster and we wouldn't serve them anyway seein' as how we have all those east coast lobsters that you saw in the tank when you walked in. Where are you from anyway?"
#2 Don't buy a whole lobster because you'll probably throw half of it away because you are from New Mexico and well...
#3 Buy a couple of lobster rolls as they are the easiest way for you to experience the taste of lobster without all the fuss and ridiculousness of wearing a plastic bib in front of a room full of strangers. Lobster rolls are the best.
#4 Don't bother with the entire lobster trip. Get a plate of assorted sea food: baked stuffed flounder, bay scallops, calamari, steamed clams, chowder, and clam cakes. That'll stuff you so full that they'll have to wheel you out of the place.
#5 Upon returning to New Mexico, see your cardiologist and begin purging the cholesterol out of your arteries.
Places to see: The Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown: they landed on the Cape because they were so happy to get off of that tub,feel some land under their feet, and find an outhouse. They were pretty beat and needed a break. Impressive structure if you can climb to the top (almost 300 ft.).
The National Seashore at Wellfleet is pretty impressive with the ocean and the dunes to stroll on.
http://www.clickcapecodbusiness.com/index.cfm?townId=98&catId=177&parentCatID=1Throw a dart or research close to where you'll be lodged.
Check it out.
https://wellfleetcatch.com/restaurant/If you're flying into Boston...get the hell out of there as fast as you can... a couple of "townies" will spot you as an "outsidah", strip you of your valuables and leave you neked at a trolley station on the Red Line. Just kiddin'.
Frankly, as a New England native I never thought much of lobster (way too expensive for most of us working class) as the many species of fish and shellfish available (scrod, cod, flounder, haddock, sea bass, scallops, mussels, clams, quahogs, squid) ; the endless ways that they were prepared utilizing traditional ways by different cultures (Italian, Portuguese, Cape Verde, French-Canadian, etc.) was far more tempting to the taste than boiled lobster. Really. I do understand what you want as a unique experience though. Go for it and may the cardiologist be cursed.
Do not, I repeat DO NOT wear any New Yawk Yankees apparel while in Massachusetts! Go Sox!!
Take a drive up north if you can. The fall season in southern New England is wholly different from out West and pretty amazing if you can hit it just right. Hardwoods are magnificent.
Enjoy your trip.
