Boston is pretty much it. Either, or. We need a car on the Cape, so we usually rent one at Logan and drive out. It's about 3 hours to get to our part of Truro.
Bangor used to be an airport of convenience for charters from Germany to the West Coast. They would land in Bangor, refuel, and have their passengers go through immigration and customs there. Then a new, U.S. based crew would get on and take the passengers on to the West Coast. About 40 years ago, there was one famous incident where one of those passengers was a very unworldly Bavarian, who wasn't paying attention to the announcements on the plane. The Germany-to-Bangor crew wished them a nice time in San Francisco. Not having paid attention to the rest of the announcements about the formalities on the ground and subsequent re-boarding, that's where he thought he was.
He didn't speak a word of English, so he got off the plane, went through immigration, collected his bag, went through customs--and right out the door! He caught a cab, used enough sign language to tell the driver he wanted a hotel. and spent three days wandering around Bangor, thinking he was in a suburb of San Francisco.
After three days, he decided he wanted to see downtown, with the Golden Gate Bridge, etc., so he got in another taxi, and said, "San Francisco." The driver tried to make him understand that he was not about to drive the guy 3000 miles to San Francisco, but he didn't understand a word, and kept asking to be taken to San Francisco.
The driver finally found a restaurant that served German food, and someone inside that understood some German. The cops were called, and finally someone located the rest of the charter group in San Francisco, who were indeed wondering how one of their passengers had vanished into thin air during the flight from Bangor to California three days before. The story caused such a sensation at the time, that the city of San Francisco sent him a ticket from Bangor to San Francisco, and he got a tour of the city by the mayor (presumably with a translator). After the trip was done, the guy decided he actually liked Bangor better (go figure), and for the trip home, they made him wear a big sign around his neck saying "not to be let out of the plane until arrival in Frankfurt am Main."
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