Discover the island paradise in your own back yard!
Imagine this. Summer has come. School is out. And the workweek is over. It’s Friday night and you have the whole weekend ahead of you. What can you do that screams summer?
Ride a ferry to your favorite island destination.
If you’ve never experienced it, let me paint a picture of what it feels like to hop on the ferry for a weekend of fun and frolic.
Martha’s Vineyard – the island next door
I automatically think of the New England fast ferry that leaves like clockwork every day out of New Bedford. It’s the easiest ferry experience I know, and the closest to home.
No Cape Cod traffic, and heck, no car needed at all! (Besides, this ferry is passenger only. You can park just ½ mile away and walk to the terminal, or let the shuttle take you to the dock).
The wonderful thing is: you don’t need a car to have fun in Martha’s Vineyard. And life is automatically simpler when there is no traffic and no parking.
In exactly one hour, you leave behind the hubbub of the city, your work and all that goes with it, and you land in what feels like another realm.
As soon as I get off the ferry in Oak Bluffs (the most fun and walker-friendly town), I walk up the ramp with the ocean on both sides, and my surroundings seem to say, “You’ve arrived!”
It’s island time
New Bedford and the mainland seem a distant memory, as the smell of fried seafood begins to permeate.
read the entire article in the South Coast Prime Times
