Loyalty-free travel in new england  (Fall 2005)

Mr. Bartley's in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass., is very popular around lunchtime. The Harvard landmark features sandwiches named after famous people and pop culture classics. The Hawaii Five-O (a chicken sandwich with teriyaki sauce and a pineapple slice) is tasty.

The Granary Burial Ground in Boston is a stop on the Freedom Trial. Paul Revere, John Hancock, Mother Goose and the parents of Benjamin Franklin are buried here.

Melissa, my former college roommate and hostess for most of my trip, reads one of the granite blocks at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston.

In the final hours of sunlight, shadows grow taller along the Carpenter Center at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. This is the only building in North America that Le Corbuiser, the father of modern architecture, designed.

Examples of the Pacific Reef tank at the New England Aquarium.

Parts of the penguins exhibit at the New England Aquarium.

The busy, chaotic world of Boston's South Station as I waited for my train to New Haven.

This is the outside of the School of Art at Yale during the final moments of the annual open house.

A close-up of the train schedule at New Haven.

Nobody know my name here. I'm standing in front of Cheers.

Ducks are my photographic weakness. Here they are at Boston Common..