All roads lead to.................Wellfleet, Massachusetts?

[DFW]

There's a tiny restaurant/nightspot here in this tiny town in outer Cape Cod where I'm only known as
"the guy who sits in on Friday nights and plays 12 string guitar while the jazz band breaks." Otherwise,
nobody knows me, what I do, where I travel, who I know, nothing. I love it. If they come to talk to me,
it's just about music. Period.

Until tonight.

A woman came up to me while I was tuning my guitar for the next number and said "I'd recognize that
guitar style anywhere! I'm........" She was the maid of honor at our wedding!!!!!!! I'd never have
recognized her. My wife was there, and nearly fell off her chair. Our elder daughter who is 27, was
there. This woman hadn't seen our daughter (or us) since our daughter was one year old.

After my set was over, the jazz band took up again. They said they were going to do a blues and anyone
from the audience who wanted to get up and sing a guest spot was welcome to do so. Some guy named Billy
got up and did a REALLY good job of improvising and singing "Route 66." He then disappeared back into
the audience. When the band's set was over, we all went up to say good night to our maid of honor and get
her contact info, email, etc. She introduced us to her boyfriend--Billy the blues singer!!

This was Small World Story #362 for this week.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

[old mark]

1. Passed through there several years ago when staying in Orleans...

The cape is a wonderful place - I would like to stay there over winter some year, just to see what that is like...is there ANY affordable real estate there any more? A small house on its own lot is all I'd need...


mark

[DFW]

7. There IS affordable real estate on the Cape, with a caveat

Usually the affordable places are in bad shape, and not anywhere near the water, not that any place on
the Cape is really far from the water. But if you're good with your hands and have a grasp of how household
things work, you could fix up a modestly priced place here, and make it a really enjoyable residence.

My wife would like to visit it in the winter, too. I'd try it, although I remain a southerner at heart, and
winter is just not my season. It is supposed to be a completely different place, although the wildlife is
supposed to just as spectacular as in the summer, different, but more of it. It's just that it's such a chore
getting over the time difference (6 hours from where we are in Central Europe) that a short stay wouldn't
give us the time we'd need to get over the jet lag.

[Gormy Cuss]

2. Route 6 leads there...

Small World incidences are weird. I ran into an old colleague while dining in a new, small restaurant that was twenty years and three thousand miles away from where we had adjacent offices.

[DFW]

5. This is the outer Cape

Route 6 goes through everywhere. Block Route 6, and the weight of the traffic backup would cause parts of the Cape would sink into the ocean.

[Gormy Cuss]

8. I'm familar with Rt. 6 and the lower Cape. Had family living in Truro for a few years.

When I lived in Boston the most sensible way to get to that part of the Cape was the Ptown ferry --much more relaxing that sitting in summertime bridge traffic.

[DFW]

9. We're in Truro now

I'm in the States for 7 weeks, so I had to bring too much stuff to lug around on the ferry.
We rented a car at Logan, and braved the traffic.

[RagAss]

10. Hate that ride from Logan....but forget it real quick when we get to the Cape.

[Ikonoklast]

3. Didn't Rod Serling write this episode?

Tell me this, have you tried leaving Wellfleet, Massachusetts yet?

[DFW]

4. Leaving is not a problem

The problem is, we don't WANT to leave, and we have to every year.

And keep a lid on it about Rod Serling. I haven't secured the rights yet............

[RagAss]

6. There is magic in the Cape !

Spent the summers of my youth in Barnstable.....now that I'm older...go back every summer !

[zippy890]

11. saw a bunch of gray seals off coast guard beach

a few weeks ago. about 300 of them.
love the outer cape. friends have a house in North Truro.

and ya can't beat them Wellfleet oysters. yum
we love goin to Macks Shack, watch the sunset.

like your small world story.

:hi:

[DFW]

12. Mac's Shack!!!!

VERY small world indeed! Sunday brunch at the Lighthouse, too?

The seal sightings have been numerous this year. It's no accident that great white sharks
have been in the area, too--15 footers. Chatham has been closed to swimmers more than once
this year.

[Old Troop]

13. My wife and I once ran into 2 of her old friends, separately, in the airport

in Lima, Peru. That's when I realized she had eyes everywhere!

[DFW]

14. Fate just tracks you down, I guess

I'd probably run into the 6th grade bully on the beach in Nauru if I stayed there long enough.

Remind me not to flee to Samarkand before sundown......

[Xipe Totec]

15. Guster - "Homecoming King"

Back in Massachusetts!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxyV-HwRwU0