A Pirate’s Life for Me 🏴‍☠️

The Journey of a Pirate

Since I was a child, I have always been fascinated by pirates. I read pirate books, dressed up as a pirate for Halloween, drew treasure maps and even asked my aunt, who is a self published author, to write me my own pirate tales. So it was only natural that one day I would go on my own pirate adventures.

Pirates were known to have ventured on to the eastern shores of the Americas from Maine all the way down to the most southern tip of Florida, the Carribbeans and the Bahamas.

Pirates made these ports in order to stock up on supplies, trade goods, or in some cases, lay seige to a city.

I was raised in Maryland, so it's no surprise that the first part of my journey would land me in the habors of Baltimore where the Sack of Baltimore took place on June 20, 1631.

My adventures would eventually lead me south to Williamsburg, Virginia where many pirates were tried and hung outside of the courthouses for the entertainment of the townspeople

Just another 200 miles south, we visit Ocracoke,the location of Blackbeared's hideout and where he would fight his final battle and unltimately come to his demise.

As we cross the boarders of South Carolina we make our way down to Charleston, where Blackbeared would lay siege to the whole town until he and his men received the cure for the retched syphillis virus that plagued he and his men.

And finally,we end our journey down the southern shores of North America to the southern tip of Florida where Captain Charles Vane famously captured the spanish gold from the Urca de Lima.

But there is no way we could complete our pirate journey without visiting New England and the coastal states along the way.

New England, home of Plymoth Rock where the first pilgrims landed to get away from the tyrant king of England. Also known for their witch hunts in Salem Massachusetts.

New England is also known for its pirates, one of which, the infamous Captain William Kidd.

William Kidd was a pirate hunter turned pirate who was commissioned by the Governor of Massachusetts, New York and New Hampshire to attack all who associate themselves with pirates, even Blackbeared himself. However, instead of acting out the governor's request, Kidd decided that he and his crew would themselves become pirate.

Since Boston, Massachussetts was the place where several key events leading up to the American Revolution took place, it was only right that my first visit would be on the 4th of July.

While in Boston we followed the Freedom Trail, A two and a half mile trail that goes though sixteen locations significant to the history of the United States, all ghe way to the house that Paul Revere once lived.