Blog Posts
From time to time we’ll post typically wicked funny Blog Posts and musings here to help you better appreciate, explore, and even immerse yourself in Boston, in Massachusetts, and in New England, “for free”!
- YankeeTravel.US’ growing YouTube channel and coming website updates
If you are curious about how a third-generation native like me explores New England then please take a moment to visit my new-ish YouTube website: https://www.youtube.com/@YankeeTravel.US–NewEngland/shorts For now, the YankeeTravel.US video effort includes YouTube “Video” and “Shorts” posts on: • New Bedford, Massachusetts’ sites and practicality as a base for exploring much of southeastern New England including Boston itself – under “Shorts” • Revere, Massachusetts’ growing base of inexpensive and welcoming near-Eastern restaurants, cafes, and… Read More »YankeeTravel.US’ growing YouTube channel and coming website updates - Free on-line travel planning sessions on the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism website!Look for and join one of my free on-line travel planning sessions offered on the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism website: Free Massachusetts travel advice from YankeeTravel.US I try to offer a regular, open web/audio bridge like this to reconnect with customers, my “Free Information!” fans, and other New England travelers. For 60 minutes most weeks, on my MS Teams web+audio bridge I give free / no-charge travel advice on visiting Boston, greater Boston,… Read More »Free on-line travel planning sessions on the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism website!
- Aren’t we wicked funny around here?!
Here are two local jokes told in the late 1980s to some non-U.S. businesspeople on their way to New England for a sourcing trip: First: Parts of Maine are so remote that when visitors ask Mainers for driving directions, Mainers may answer: “You can’t get there from here!” Second: In Cambridge’s Central Square Purity Supreme supermarket, a bookish-looking college student brought 15 items to a cashier at a “12 items or fewer” check-out line. Staring… Read More »Aren’t we wicked funny around here?! - The Funny Thing About Yankees
What does the word “Yankee” mean? What I read and heard for years growing up in greater Boston was that the word “Yankee” was an indigenous, Algonquin-language approximation of the noun and adjective, “English.” An Algonquin origin for “Yankee” made enough sense given what French has bitten off in terms of its word “biftek” and what Irish serves up as “bricfeasta.” After all, dozens of other indigenous New England words remain common in American English: caribou, caucus, moccasin,… Read More »The Funny Thing About Yankees