Doing free things

In an effort to live frugally, I ventured to Walden Pond today for the first time.

I was utterly underwhelmed. Maybe it's because I've never read anything by Thoreau. So I picked up his "Walden or, life in the woods" from my library. The librarian told me she had to read it in college and hated it so the rave review helps... Also it smells like an old book which is, by, far, the worst smell on the planet. Though I have yet to smell burning flesh. Knock on wood it stays that way. 


While it's true I am a world traveler. - the things I haven't done in my own backyard is pathetic. So for the rest of this year I am going to search out local (read: New England) things to do that I've never done before. The list is pretty long.


 Up next: watching a reenactment of a battle from the Revolutionary War and go to Hampton Beach for the sand castle festival.