Cape Cod Vacation

A Cape Cod vacation is one thing, but a Cape Cod vacation is another thing, a better thing, when done the way many students, artists, and others do it: they spend a summer living and working in the most beautiful and inspiring (and wild!) of areas. This is what I did with two friends, one from the west coast, in the mid seventies, and I have it down as one of the best summers I ever experienced.

We rented rooms from a fisherman and his wife in P-town (Provincetown). We worked odd jobs during the day, doing chambermaid work, framing in the galleries, etc., and partying all night long! Come on. This is what you do when you are meant to go to Paris as a young man (as Hemingway would have it) or woman but instead must stay closer to home and need to save money for that upcoming first semester of college. That is, you hang out with the peeps who live in town (and I recommend this for any vacation, not just a Cape Cod vacation). That way, you get to do non-touristy things like let an amount of air out of the dune buggy or jeep tires and go dune-hopping or hang out in the pools which are between the beach and the bars.