With Covid risk continuing to decline, I started to do more short-range car travel including trips to New York, Connecticut (to watch the US Women’s Soccer Team play Mexico), and New Jersey (to watch Nico’s New England Amputee Soccer Team play New York).

On the Fourth of July, I visited Fort Independence on Castle Island to watch the USS Constitution, the world’s oldest floating ship, as members of the crew performed a 21-gun salute to celebrate the holiday.