Nantucket by Night

Took the Skylane on my first night flight in a while...destination: Nantucket. The sun was already starting to set as I preflighted the 182 G-1000 and filed a flightplan via DRUNK V141. This was the Tower Enroute Control route listed in the Airport Facility Directory so I assumed I'd get that clearance. However, the clearance came through as "Direct Marconi Nantucket Direct" which I punched into the G1000 electronic navigator.
The air was cold so the plane climbed like a champ on takeoff and I was at 7,000 feet in to time at all. Boston approach gave me radar vectors around the Bravo airspace and finally cleared me direct to Nantucket, right over the Otis Airbase restricted zone. Normally, this is hot during daylight hours. There was a haze over Nantucket sound and an overcast layer at 4,000 with optical illusions abounding as I approached Nantucket. I set a new personal top groundspeed record at 182 knots and after flying the ILS for runway 24, landed (quite hard) at Nantucket.
After receiving the return clearance it was off to Bedford with Boston's lights shimmering below. What a beautiful sight!
Cape approach handed me off to Boston, whom I could not contact. Going back to Cape, they informed me that Boston was having transmitter problems and to try them again on an alternate frequency. BOS was barely readable so I was forced to acknowlenge their instructions with transponder IDENTS. They finally cleared me for a visual approach into Bedford for another hard landing (Need to practice some night touch and go's.)