Visited: Sunday, June 17th, 2012
Well, we got through the first 50 in just under 3 years. Putting us on track to get to all the NPS-run sites in - 2033. Though I fear that's far too optimistic; I suspect that 2043 is much more likely.
We only visited a single Island - George's Island - but IMHO it's easily the most interesting, holding the remains of a fort used from 1850-1950, Fort Warren. Now, at that, Fort Warren's history is - pretty dry; not all that much actually _happened_ there, other than training and - during the Civil War - holding prisoners. But it makes the island much more interesting for me than, for example, Spectacle Island, which has - nice trails.
Oddly, the patch for the site is about 30% smaller in each dimension than the standard Eastern park patches, even though it's the same style otherwise. It's actually closer in dimensions to the Western park patches.
One of the most interesting aspects of the trip for me was to get a feel, from ground level, about what goes on at Logan. Now I just need to fly out of Logan again to put the two aspects together in my mind. Fortunately, it won't be long until I get that chance; unfortunately, our flight is at 5:30AM...
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