PROVINCETOWN 1982
PROVINCETOWN 1982
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15. Drive Gene Adams and Marilyn Pappert and her snuggly friend Robin to Provincetown through a bright and clear Connecticut, missing the turnoff for the new bridge through Newport, so through Providence in the rush-hour traffic at 4:30, and get in just after dark at 6:15 going easy on the lights. Into a small single at Christine's and over to meet Adele and Mary Rose, and we all go to Nepi's where I have not-that-great Brazilian shrimp, spicy Portuguese soup, and a GOOD Vouvray Monmousseau for only $10.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16. Up at 8:30 and shower and out with Gene for breakfast in the Red Fox Inn of steak and champagne yet, then wander up and down the busy town past the unsightly Provincetown Inn in the "north," then try to meet Robin at the ice cream shop while she's standing at the pharmacy, when she said drug-store-ice-cream shop, and return to house and get told by Mary Rose where Rebecca's is, and get there at 1:45 for a BEAUTIFUL woman and her sexy husband Tom, old white-bearded Saul, and seven other mostly-gay women. Actualism session goes well between 2 and 4:30, and Gene wants to eat right after we three drive out to look at Herring Cove for sunset, and we're back to Red Fox Inn when the Mayflower's crowded and he doesn't want to adventure anywhere else. Then I wander to benches in front of Town Hall and watch rather unpleasant passersby, WITHOUT my glasses, until 12, having found bars AWFUL.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17. Breakfast with Gene in place that advertises "Breakfast 8 am - 3 pm, lunch 11 am - 6 pm, dinner 1 pm - midnight." To the museum at 10 and climb the tower and take pictures and pass the time nicely until 2, when the Actualism session is good again until 4, and then I'm out to the beach to walk WITH the wind until sunset, taking pictures of the distant lighthouses, then back AGAINST the wind, exhausting, at 6:30, when we finally eat in the Mayflower and I get into bed at 11, after showering, but I can't sleep until about 2.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 18. Out at 6 am to find two tires flat. Marilyn says that driving on them won't hurt them, but they STILL leak when we get to the station (and I find that we DO have an air pump!), but there are TWO spares, so we change them by 7 am and drive off to change a battery and think the OTHER one is going, so we get the first charged and the second checked about noon, and then the accelerator jams IN on the Bruckner Throughway, which I fix, and home at 4, EXHAUSTED.