Boston area... It's great.. but the beaches on the North Shore are DURRRTY (Reveah and Salisbury)... go down the Cape instead! It's really nice. Actually stop in Plymouth because that town has a lot of good stuff for a tourist... the Plymouth Rock, Plimouth Plantation (a reproduction working Pilgrim-era village), the Mayflower II, a working fishing port, a town beach that if you park there and then walk out along the spit it's GORGEOUS... a rocky beach with a very few cottages perched on a long spit of land that juts out into Plymouth harbor... and not as bad a drive as trying to go down the Cape on a summer day.