Blogs from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America - page 55

I'm baaaaaaack...... What began as a quick refresher course in Western living back home, has turned into the World's Longest Farewell Tour and an eternity of waiting and shifting moods. Reverse culture shock shifted to restlessness, to excitement to leave, which dulled to eager anticipation and onward to boredom. In the 6-week eternity of being an unemployed bum, living with my parents (as opposed to the wandering vagabond, living wherever my head found a pillow I was while traveling - which is way cooler, honestly), I nearly forgot the excitement, slipping back into a routine and a normal view of the world. I now see how your viewpoint as a transient drifter in no way resembles that of a permanent dweller, regardless of how permanent you actually are. A random conversation with a stranger or a ... read more

Hello everyone. This is it - first post of the trip, all the planning and sorting over the last few months have led to this point. Mum and Dad dropped us at the airport on Saturday, it wasn't nice to say goodbye. The flights were great, smooth all the way. We were delayed out of Newcastle by about half an hour so we had a rush to get the connection at Heathrow, ( which was then delayed about 50 mins anyway ). It was a relatively short 6 1/2 hour flight to Boston, got into Logan airport at 19:15 Boston time ( 1:15am Boro time ). Grabbed a cab to our digs, checked in, then headed out for some pizza. Crashed about 22:00 and slept like logs. It's taking a little while to get used to ... read more

17Aug07 - Boston - I score an excellent deal to stay in the Westin downtown Boston. It was within walking distance of the Freedom Trail and Boston Common. I spent the day walking around the beautiful city. The pictures says it all.... read more

August 7, 2007 With the blog back up and I think mostly accounted for here are some new pictures of last weeks class along with our field trip to the Blue Hills Observatory near Boston, and other pics around Boston. Today Molly & I signed up to be hair models! This meant we went to a fancy shmancy hair salon on Newbury and paid a pittance for them to practice on our hair. The style they were learning was the Bob, but a contemporary one not a classic one. So it is angled towards the front, Molly’s more than mine. She did not want us to end up with the same haircut but they are very similar. I guess in the big cities one can sign up to be a hair model and get a decent ... read more

Our trip into New England began on Tuesday the 31st July, about 2 days after we had planned. Our time in Canada had been so enjoyable that we had spent an additional couple of days in Ontario which limited our time in New England. After reading through the ever-trusty Lonely Planet Guide (we’ll never travel without one of these suckers) we picked out a path that would lead us through all six of the New England states. The main sites we had picked out were New Hampshire’s White Mountains National Park, Vermont’s covered Bridges, Yale in Connecticut, Rhode Island’s Mansions, and finally Martha’s Vineyard (from Fi - my pick, always wanted to go there) and Boston in Massachusetts. Maine Having really loved our time in Quebec City we departed with a feeling of regret that we ... read more