Truro
Truro is the next town up from Wellfleet on the Cape.
We have friends who spend a few weeks there each summer but we've never really explored it. Not that there is much to explore. Truro is a town where people live, there aren't art galleries or restaurants or fancy shops - not that I have a problem with that.
But K and I had bought a lottery ticket and, one morning during the monsoon that hit Cape Cod last week, we decided we'd buy house with some of our winnings....
I hit the internet and picked out a wee tiny place right on the edge of the sea. Two million dollars.
You see, there are very few houses with ocean-front property on the Cape and there aren't going to be any more as the land is protected from development.
It's lovely inside, two bedrooms and a wonderful kitchen, but it's the location that is amazing.
Sadly, it is also the location that is its downfall...
It needs paint - but we don't mind.
There's nothing left of the shore. That? We mind.
There is another house just across the sand -
we'd buy that one too, for the boys.
I can't begin to describe how windy and rainy it was while we stood looking at that house.
My eyeglasses needed windshield wipers - I could not keep them dry.
And the wind whipped through my hair and we were soaked in minutes.
It was wonderful.
We didn't win the lottery last week but standing there in the wind and sea spray it hardly mattered.
We have friends who spend a few weeks there each summer but we've never really explored it. Not that there is much to explore. Truro is a town where people live, there aren't art galleries or restaurants or fancy shops - not that I have a problem with that.
But K and I had bought a lottery ticket and, one morning during the monsoon that hit Cape Cod last week, we decided we'd buy house with some of our winnings....
I hit the internet and picked out a wee tiny place right on the edge of the sea. Two million dollars.
You see, there are very few houses with ocean-front property on the Cape and there aren't going to be any more as the land is protected from development.
It's lovely inside, two bedrooms and a wonderful kitchen, but it's the location that is amazing.
Sadly, it is also the location that is its downfall...
It needs paint - but we don't mind.
There's nothing left of the shore. That? We mind.
There is another house just across the sand -
we'd buy that one too, for the boys.
I can't begin to describe how windy and rainy it was while we stood looking at that house.
My eyeglasses needed windshield wipers - I could not keep them dry.
And the wind whipped through my hair and we were soaked in minutes.
It was wonderful.
We didn't win the lottery last week but standing there in the wind and sea spray it hardly mattered.
Comments
I cannot bOlieve the weather!
Winning the lottery is overrated, anyway.
jbhat
Do they have a Brahms Ice Cream there? If not, screw it. Go to Provincetown.