After the Olmsted site, I decided to try out the Boston subway system and scooted downtown. Their subway is considerably older than Washington DC's. It was also unusual because they have attendants in each of the cars who take your money in little bus-like collection boxes at all above-ground stations. All of the signs and boxes were marked "exact change only, no bills" so I went out of my way to get exact change. When you get on the train, however, you find that everyone else is cramming in dollar bills anyway.
I got off downtown, walked through the Boston Commons (taking time to take pictures of the bar where the TV show "Cheers" was based), and followed a little bit of the Freedom Trail (which I'd seen extensively on my last visit).
It's easy to get lost in Boston. This makes sense because the original streets were laid down based on the terrain so there weren't many straight roads. As time went on, they tried to rationalize the road structure a bit but ran into opposition because so many of the structures in the city are historic and can't be touched. The scene of the so-called Boston Massacre, for example, interfered with the desired road network in the city so they were going to tear down the Old State House until preservationists fortunately derailed that idea.
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