Growing up and living in California can spoil you. We have beautiful beaches and charming little towns. Cape Cod is very similar in that respect, but with an obvious New England flair, quite different from California’s Spanish flavor.
The weather held, more or less. Not really beach weather, and it rained only a couple days that week. The Cape has a lot to see, much of it colored by this country’s early history and later political figures. Still we found the local potato chip factory and brewery (we like to see how things are made even if we don’t sample!) in Hyannis and an amazing glass museum (as in glass blowing) in Sandwich.
Provincetown is filled with color, restaurants, galleries and T-shirt shops. Even so, there is a lot of fun and positive energy there.
We sailed to Nantucket Island one day, another very New England site—quaint, charming, upscale and filled with old and very new. A different kind of charm than Provincetown
We spent most of our time roaming up and down the peninsula. Again, lots to see and we only scratched the surface; and as is so often true, people can make the place. We met a lot of nice and interesting people on our travels, many of whom seem to have lived in California at some point in their life!