Love Concord, MA area. If you want a fun day trip for you and family here's what you do:

1/ You visit a book store like the one below and you buy a book off this shelf.

2/ You visit Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord and you spend an hour in reflection of the accomplishments of the people buried there. Take a walk around. It's open to the public.

They have everyone in this cemetery from the guy who directed the original Star Trek and I Love Lucy to Ralph Waldo Emerson to Louisa May Alcott to war heroes like "Moose" Heyliger from the 101st Airborne Easy Company, which folks may know from the Band of Brothers mini-series program.

Pull up an old Star Trek or I Love Lucy on your phone and watch it as you stand next to the grave of the guy who made that, who is buried in the ground a stone's throw away from Ralph Waldo Emerson.

3/ Then, you read a passage from the book you just bought next to the grave of the writer who wrote those words. You can read this out loud or you can just read it quietly.

How cool is this? You're reading the words of a famous author from 100+ years ago who had something to say about something and you're reading that dead person's thoughts over that dead person's grave. What an honor!

4/ Next, you visit Minuteman National Park right down the street, which has the Old North Bridge, where the American Revolution commenced. You walk over the bridge and you read the plaques and you think about what it was like for a bunch of farmers to pull together their arms to defend their town to fight off the British - the most organized and armed army the world had seen at the time. You read the stories about how the town was burning and that is what called all the country folk to arms. But did it burn? If it did burn, was the fire started by American colonists themselves or the British? We'll never know the answer.

5/ Then, you go to brunch or lunch at the restaurant Fourth & Field down the road ~20 mins away, which is next to a small airport with a big window facing the airport. The food is basic American fare - nothing special - but you go to the restaurant to watch the planes take off, but really you go to watch the little kids rooting for the planes.

6/ If you really want you can go to Walden Pond and look at how goofy the cabin is. Seriously, this is a hilariously small cabin. You may comment on how commercial the place has gotten but just take a long walk around the perimeter of the pond and how commercial can a place really be if the walking paths have so much overgrowth?

---

These little kids love these planes and they cheer for them.

This airport restaurant is a beautiful place because it's the funniest thing in the world to watch little 3 - 6 year olds rooting for the planes coming in or taking off, and you laugh and smile at them and their parents, but it's seriously the funniest thing in the world to watch the excitement of little kids cheering on these little airplanes.

---

You can do the whole Concord, MA trip in about 5 hours and you'll live more in those few hours than you would watching Netflix or pretending to learn a new language on Duolingo.

Big fan of watching the little babies running around cheering for airplanes taking off and landing...

Big fan of all the humanity going on in the Concord, MA area...what a delight and what a joy to experience!