Boston is always nice in the autumn- I'm jealous!

To get around, don't rent a car (Boston literally has crazed maniacs for drivers!) -the T is very easy to use. www.mbta.com

When I lived there, I always took visitors to the Fogg Art Museum (by Harvard), Toscanini's, the North End (track down Mike's Pastries), the Gardener Museum, Quincy Market, Newbury St, and Boston Public Gardens.

The Red Sox look to be playing the Yankees for the AL Championship, I don't know when the games at Fenway will be, but that could be interesting, too. My sister and I attended a few September Sox-Yankees games, in the cheap bleacher seats, wearing our Yankees hats, and the only reason we're still alive today is pure luck.