The BEST two days in BOSTON! (Experiencing the city’s history + delicious local EATS)

Welcome to Boston, Massachusetts. A city integral in the founding of the United States and loaded with history around every corner. It's a place that we have wanted to visit for years and for the next two days we're going to try to experience as much as we can. From the historic sites, dump the tea in the sea, to delicious local eats, holy cannoli, to bucket list experiences. But first we have to get there. We're staying outside the city which we'll share more about later and to get to the city we're going to take the ferry from Hingham to Rose Wharf. Costs $19.50 per person round trip and it should be about a 30-minute ride. We are getting our first glimpse ever of Boston. How freaking cool is it to see a city for the very first time from a boat. We are deeming today our history day so we're going to try to check out as many of the historical sites in the city as we can starting with the Freedom Trail. The entire Freedom Trail is two and a half miles long and includes a bunch of sites to see. Both quick stops and some that take longer plus some that you have to pay to enter and we're not going to be checking out everything along the Freedom Trail but we picked a handful of spots that we're most interested in and we just took a lift from the ferry to our first stop the USS Constitution. The USS Constitution launched in 1797 and is the oldest commissioned warship afloat. It has sailed all over the world including the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Pacific, Europe and Africa and has been involved in many battles including in the War of 1812 where it earned the nickname Old Ironsides. One very important person in Boston's history is Paul Revere. He was a silversmith who lived here in Boston. In fact you can go tour his house while on the Freedom Trail which is the oldest remaining structure in downtown Boston. But he is most famously known for his midnight ride at the start of the American Revolution which happened at the Old North Church right behind me that I don't think you can see but it's right there somewhere. Paul Revere asked three Boston patriots to watch for British troop movement and hang lanterns in the steeple to send a warning to the waiting American militia across the Charles River. Revere said to hang one lantern if the British troops marched by land and two if they approached by sea. Two lanterns were hung and Paul Revere and others began their ride to Lexington and Concord to warn that the British were coming. Walking around Boston feels like you're walking through a giant outdoor museum. It feels like you're just going to bump into history around every corner. Sorry Mr. Revere. Another popular stop along the Freedom Trail is Faneuil Hall. This was the first public meeting space in Boston as well as a marketplace for the city and as the city grew in the 1820s they needed more space for marketplace vendors so they built Quincy Market next door. Quincy Market has now been turned into a food hall and is now one of the top attractions here in Boston. We've heard mixed things about it though that it's super touristy and very busy so we're just going to wander through just to see it because we have another market in mind that we want to check out instead. Quincy Market was cool to see and it actually wasn't that busy but I think being here early on a Monday definitely helps. But we heard that Boston Public Market was another great market to check out. This market is much newer. It was built in 2015 but it focuses a lot on small local businesses and has a slightly less touristy vibe to it. There are so many great stands in this market. There's a juice shop, a plant shop, there's produce, there's fresh seafood, there's a cider place, there's a bar. There's a ton to see here. It is totally our vibe. And we first had to get some iced coffees because it is very hot and muggy out today. And then we also needed a snack so we went to this place called Moroccan which has these Moroccan bowls with rice and meat and sauces and veggies. We got their Prince one with a bunch of sauces and it looks so good. Whoa that is so good. We got like their pineapple barbecue sauce on there. I think that's what this red sauce is here. You instantly taste that. It's like sweet and then there's some harissa on here makes it spicy. I'm like drooling. The chicken man is so moist and juicy. This is so good. This is a lot of food for one order too. Man it's nice and heavy. That is rocking. Is it rocking your red socks off? It's rocking my red socks off. Boston is the capital of Massachusetts and this building right behind me is the old statehouse. There's a new statehouse just down the road but this old statehouse holds a lot of history. It was the site of the Boston Massacre in 1770, the first bloodshed of the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence was read for the first time in Boston from the balcony on July 18, 1776. It's kind of crazy to see an old building like this surrounded by a more modern building like this. Boston is so cool. There are 16 historic burying grounds here in Boston and the most visited is the Granary Burying Ground along the Freedom Trail. While there's only 2,300 markers it's said that there are over 5,000 people buried here including John Hancock and Paul Revere. But what's really crazy is that we found a still alive British soldier from the American Revolution just wandering around the cemetery. We made it to Boston Common which marks the beginning or the end of the Freedom Trail depending on which way you go and we plan to explore the park more tomorrow because we still have one more historic site that we want to check out. But first we got to get more food and we're not just getting any food. Adam, what are we getting? Some chowder. We came to James Hook & Co which has been family-owned since 1925 and they're known for their lobster rolls and chowder. We had lobster rolls in Connecticut and they're a bit pricey so we're just going to try their chowder instead. That is a wicked good chowder. There are tons of clams in here and it is super creamy. Lots of potato. It's just like heartwarming and hearty. Oh it's so thick and creamy. One of the first things we think of when we think of Boston is the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was a protest by American colonists in 1773 against British taxes on tea. While disguised as Native Americans they dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor showing their It was a huge contributing event to the Revolutionary War and to learn more about it we're heading to the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum which is one of the things we've been most excited about here in Boston. We actually booked the experience through TripAdvisor who is the sponsor of today's video. TripAdvisor is the world's largest travel website with 2.3 million accommodations, 5 million restaurants, and over 1 million travel activities from all around the world. We have been using TripAdvisor for years to plan and research our adventures including reading traveler reviews on activities we want to do and compare hotel prices but you can also book tours and experiences directly through TripAdvisor making it your one-stop shop for travel planning. 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I'm Robert Davis and I actually died on my birthday. That's a bad omen. I'm trying to practice so I get it right. I'm a little nervous. There's a lot of This is quite odd for a crowd of 5,000 angry Bostonians. We are gathered here to discuss yet another crisis forfeited by Parliament. Supposedly on behalf of our monarch King George III. What say you on the stand back sir? Parliament not only taxed our paper and ink they even taxed our playing cards and dice. I think I nailed it. Now Rally Patriots. Huzzah! All right we're all fired up and we're heading down to the ship. I'm fired up. Huzzah! Show off the mighty yoke of tyranny. Say aye. Aye. You're going to be arrested and tried for treason. Say aye. Aye. I swear I was not there. No taxation without representation. This is way too much fun. That experience was amazing. It was so interactive. Normally with museums you learn by reading and watching things which we did watch a movie that we weren't allowed to film but here you really learn by doing and you get to just be involved the entire time. I was thriving. I loved every single second and at the end of the tour they have a tea room and you can pay a little bit extra to try the five teas that were thrown overboard during the Boston Tea Party. We got the two strongest ones. One of them smells very interesting. The smell is very pungent. It smells like the ship was set on fire. That's the tea right here. I don't know how to describe tea so I'm going to go with exquisite. I like the smell of it too. It makes you feel like you're sitting around a campfire or something. We've tried almost all of the teas now and they're all really good. Such a shame that we had to throw them overboard. Congratulations on the joke well done. Destroy the British tea. Huzzah! The only thing missing from our little tea party here is a little sweet treat. I think I know exactly what to get. That's right a Boston cream pie. Fun fact Boston cream pie is not actually pie. It is cake. It's layers of sponge cake with a cream filling between them and chocolate ganache on the top. It's the state dessert of Massachusetts and it was first created in 1856 at the Omni Parker House Hotel but we hear Flower Bakery has a really good one so we came here instead. Oh it's so soft. So fluffy and moist and creamy. The cake is not dry at all. It's just soaked up some of that cream. Oh my goodness. I love it. My favorite kind of dessert is a tres leches cake and this kind of has a very similar texture to it. It's obviously not as wet and dripping with all the milk but like it's nice and moist and there's so much cream in there. Oh baby this is so good. Good morning. Visiting Boston was a little logistically challenging for us. First we had to board Kona for a few days because we wanted to be able to explore the city freely and not worry about her or have to rush back to get to her. We also had to figure out where to park the van. We've taken the van to quite a few big cities but we had heard that Boston wasn't very big vehicle friendly so we're utilizing a park and ride law and then taking public transportation into the city. We also had to figure out where to sleep because there are really no free camping options that we could find. So we ended up booking a campsite at Wampatuck State Park which is about 24 miles outside of Boston. It is $60 a night for a power site for non-residents so it's not cheap but it is a nice campground and it's in a good spot to explore the city with both the train and the ferry nearby which is how we plan to get into Boston again tomorrow. We have made it into Boston and now we're going to tackle the T which is the subway for the first time ever to get to our first stop for the day. We've been using this mTickets app to buy all of our public transportation tickets and it is super easy. Okay I lied we actually got on a train and not a subway but this thing's pretty nice and it's so big. There it is! Oh cool! Today is a very exciting day for me because I finally get to visit Fenway Park which is the oldest MLB ballpark in the U.S. and the home of the Boston Red Sox. I have a goal of visiting all MLB ballparks and this morning we're going on a tour of Fenway Park which we also booked on TripAdvisor and I am so pumped! Beautiful day to see Fenway Park, most beautiful ballpark in America! Look at this! We're here this is so cool! Our tour kicked off with our guide Joe sharing some of the park's 111 years of history including some of the great players who have played here. We also learned a bunch of fun facts about the park including how it's not symmetrical and heard the story behind the one red seat among a sea of green seats which is where in 1946 Ted Williams hit the longest home run inside the park at 502 feet and we got to learn about the iconic Green Monster. Alrighty a little history of Red Sox and Fenway Park. Next I think we're gonna go up to the Green Monster Want to go up there? Yeah! You just can't go up there! You just can't go up there! How many people here from Massachusetts? Not a one! Not a one! You know in Massachusetts we have a problem. You know what our problem is? You know what our biggest problem is? We don't have an R in our alphabet. So these seats are called the Green Monster seats. If you wish to go up there see Fenway Park from that beautiful viewing angle you need to earn the right to go up there and the way you do that on the count of three you have to say Green Monster! Are we ready? One, two, three, Green Monster! Let's go up! Monster! Throughout the tour we wandered around the entire stadium seeing it from different vantage points, walked through the press room and got to see Fenway Farms, a rooftop garden that was created to utilize empty space and the produce that is grown is used in the ballpark which is super cool. Thanks for allowing us to show you Fenway Park. Follow me! We just got done with the Fenway Park tour and it was so much fun you get to walk all around the ballpark and learn not only about the ballpark but also so much about the Red Sox and a big shout out to our guide Joe he was amazing as well. I'm not a Red Sox fan by any means but I'm a big baseball fan and if you're a If you want to experience this tour or the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum we'll put their TripAdvisor links in the description and pinned comment below but even if you're not coming to Boston we have a 10% off code for any experience booked on TripAdvisor which is A plus K 10. A huge thank you to TripAdvisor for supporting our adventures and giving us these iconic Boston experiences and to continue our Boston exploring we're off to have a little Italian feast in the North End. The North End is located in the northern part of the city and also where a few of the stops along the Freedom Trail we checked out yesterday are located but besides its American Revolution history it also has a lot of Italian history. The North End has been inhabited by many different people and cultures since the 1630s making it Boston's oldest residential neighborhood but by 1930 almost all residents were Italian and many Italian restaurants bakeries and shops sprung up many of which are still here today. There are many delicious Italian restaurants in the North End but many of them are a bit too fancy for us however we found a spot that we think is perfect for us Galleria Umberto. It is a cheap no frills cash only order at the counter spot which is totally our jam. We got some of their Sicilian style pizza which has a thicker airy focaccia like dough or crust and is often baked in a pan so that the edges and bottom get a little crispy and also arancini which are deep fried rice balls with mozzarella beef and peas. You got a thick nice doughy crust there yeah just like focaccia bread. The sauce is delicious so much cheese on here. That is super delicious the bottom of it has a nice little crisp to it but the inside of it I'm gonna steal Adam's word is super pillowy and what makes it even better is that it's $2.25 a slice which is such a steal. It's one of those spots that once they sell out they close so get there early because there was a line when we got there and a line when we left it's a very popular spot. This thing is so cheesy and it's still really hot. The first thing you notice is the crispiness on the outside from being fried real thin breading on there and then just on the inside of there is all the rice that's nice and spongy and holds in all the meat sauce that has a good like kind of marinara pasta flavor. I didn't get a good bite of the peas but I think that's an interesting addition It's so cheesy. Oh yeah the peas are an interesting addition kind of gives it like a earthiness to it maybe Oh my goodness this is delicious I keep thinking it's dough but it's rice it's so confusing. It's so good. Oh my gosh very comforting. Besides savory Italian food another very popular thing to eat in the North End are Italian pastries specifically cannolis and there is a huge debate on who has the best cannoli in the North End with Mike's pastry and modern pastry being the two biggest names and the most popular with tourists and after reading tons of reviews and opinions we could not decide between the two so we decided to get one from each we got the highest recommended item from each and from Mike's we got the Florentine which has a honey and nut shell and from modern we got a plain shell with ricotta filling and pistachios we know they're not the same kind of cannoli so it can't be a true comparison but we make our own rules. So a few first impressions and good things to know one they are both cash only they're also known for having some pretty long waits especially Mike's but we walked up and ordered at both of them so we got super lucky the one from Mike's definitely is bigger than the one from modern but it's also a dollar more so i guess that makes sense and at modern they actually fill it when you order so it's a little bit fresher but they both look so good oh my god that is so good holy cannoli how long have you been waiting to say that weeks right when you bite into it you get a huge mouthful of all those pistachios so it's nice and crunchy and the cream isn't overly sweet it's nice and cool and then you got a nice flaky and crispy plain shell there this one is this one is super good round two oh man this one obviously had a huge mouthful of chocolate chips and it was amazing the filling in here is delicious too again not overly sweet but then the shell on here i really like that crispy crunchy and sweet again holy cannoli i think this is my second cannoli ever so i'm not a cannoli connoisseur by any means that's really good though the filling is so creamy i think yeah the outside is a bit sweeter the inside's not as sweet i mean powdered sugar on top to add some sweetness all right mike let's see what you got i like the shell on that one how am i supposed to pick which one i like better i think i like the shell on this one better it's just unique i want to say maybe i like the filling on this one better that might be more like pro chocolate chip over pistachio just sweeter i don't know i don't think you can go wrong with either bum bum bum bum bum which one which one i think i'm gonna go with the monitor i just like i feel like this one is a little more classic and this one's a little more kind of like a specialty flavor i will admit though i do like the shell on this one better but this one just feels a little more cannoli cannoli or refined or classic i guess and i'm just leaning this one they're basically right across the street from each other so there's no reason you can't do a cannoli bang bang as promised yesterday we're back at boston common this is america's oldest public park established in 1634 and we're going to go through a stroll through here plus the neighboring boston public garden as we make our way to the back bay neighborhood back bay is a picturesque neighborhood lined with gorgeous brownstone homes shops and restaurants it's also home to the finish line of the famous boston marathon and where on april 15 2013 the boston marathon bombing occurred right near where we're standing and these stone pillars are a memorial for the three people that died that day this year was the 10-year anniversary of the bombing and our friend ryan who is the host of the pursuit of happiness podcast recently had on adrian haslett who is a survivor of the boston marathon bombing she lost her leg due to the bombing but has since run the marathon and shares her story all around the world to inspire others we highly recommend listening to that episode we just popped into the boston public library that's right this is not a museum this is a library it has renaissance style architecture and all of these stunning columns ornate details and murals it really feels like we're in an art museum or something we spend a lot of time in libraries on the road they're our go-to spot to work because they're free and they usually have fast wi-fi and this is hands down the most beautiful library we have ever been to this library is like some of the palaces we've been to in italy and in mexico it is so beautiful seriously if you blindfolded me and dropped me here i would think we were in europe or something we're back baby not only did we go on a tour of fenway park this morning but we're going to a game tonight that marks the end of our 49th state and i cannot think of a better ending than a red sox game it was a dream come true but to give you an update on what's next for us we're actually going to be heading up to the canadian maritimes in newfoundland for the entire summer and fall you may be thinking wait what about your 50th state well we're actually going to be flying back to the u.s very soon for some very big plans that we have in iowa so stay tuned but in the meantime we are so pumped to begin our northeast canada adventures hey toots you know what i could really use right now is a cup of coffee get some chowder all right we're gonna go to starbucks i'm gonna say light ice please and don't be charging me extra okay scratch that you can keep your starbucks we're gonna pop into donkey's and get a giant cup of cup of joe you know we're gonna try a lot of iconic boston foods here and they're gonna just gonna be some wicked pisses that pole review guy you know he's one lane of this two lane is this come on i'll talk we bought this umbrella because the whole last week it said it's gonna be heavy rain on the two days we're here as you can see it's pretty sunny and it's still coming in handy trip advisor is the world's largest travel website with 2.3 million accommodations how's the fit oh my gosh i love it you look so good second time i've gotten low outside of fenway today