Wheels: Plymouth and the Mayflower

Ah, Thanksgiving. An American holiday centered around food, no wonder it’s one of my favorites. Which begs the question: if April showers bring May flowers, what do Mayflowers bring? Pilgrims, of course! Those Pilgrims — I dare you to read “pilgrim” without hearing John Wayne — kicked off a tradition that carries through to this day.

Back in the 1600s. the Pilgrims arrived by ship, boarding the rather flimsy Mayflower and threw fate to the wind landing, as history taught us, on the shores of Plymouth, Mass. Perhaps the large rock at that location bearing the engraved date 1620 isn’t the actual rock onto which the Pilgrims set foot but it’s symbolic of their feat (feet?). A replica of the Mayflower floats idly in Plymouth harbor within eyesight of that dubiously famous rock.