I haven’t written a lot about our summer in Provincetown Massachusetts mostly because it’s been an exceptionally boring summer.

Those familiar with Provincetown may not know how that is possible.  But it is.  And it was a good sort of rest that was filled with overworking.

Ryan, my oldest, “boomeranged” as it seems to be called these days when he moved out and then came right back.  Not a problem.  He got a job right away and had been working and saving.

Liam, my youngest, has had a lazy summer.  But he now thinks he knows what he wants to do career-wise wise and I think it’s a good idea.  He’s thinking he wants to do yacht deliveries and be a marine technician.

And me.  I was asked to rewrite a BA in Hospitality Management program on top to my regular teaching load.  So I’ve been on a 70-hour-a-week summer of crazy work.

Instead of a crazy summer of hiking and biking the trails that Provincetown is famous for.  Instead of spending time at the beaches that make Provincetown Extra famous.  I spent my summer running Ryan back and forth to work, and working in cafes, and waking up at 5am to get started on early days writing and teaching.

Boat work wise I got the minimum done that I needed to but didn’t get as much done as I wanted.

Overall, just a work work work soft of summer.

Still I think it helped reinforce the choice of Provincetown as a summer spot.  My only distractions were my children.  Being on a mooring gave us space so that only other boaters would come by to visit.  The security of not needing to worry about dragging.

The town’s harbormaster’s office runs a free pumpout boat that will come as often as you need.  Usually we are strict about using the bathroom on shore, but with the convenience and heck just the opportunity to chat with the assistant harbormasters, we were very lax.

Water can be had by taking the boat to the fuel dock and paying $15 for as much as you need or we ended up doing jerry cans to the dinghy dock instead.  More work but easier to stay on top of the water situation since we’d just get 6 gallons every day for a few days.

I’m hoping to get a watermaker, Provincetown Harbor is SO VERY clean there would be no issues running it here.

There is a well stocked grocery store, hardware store, and most other things you’d need.  Having a PO Box really helped so we only needed to use the Mailspot for larger packages.

I finished a bit more than half of the degree program and kept up with my regular work.

We did miss cruising around.  There are so many things up in northern New England that we haven’t done yet.  But the consistency for Ryan helped.  And I’m hoping that a winter in Portland Maine will be what he needs to successfully find an apartment and get established on his own.

For now, in our final few days in Provincetown there are only a few more things to do.  I need to swap out an engine console gauge, top off the water, top off the diesel, pickup our propane tank which we took in to be filled, and secure the dinghy (and general mess) for going offshore.