Blogs from Queens, New York, New York, United States, North America - page 6

We’re at JFK and we’ll be boarding our flight to Rome in a few minutes. We had a great time here in NYC. Last night, we went to dinner at a place called Quality Meats, right off 5th Avenue near Central Park. Liilana said she was in the mood for meat after 3 weeks on a boat with a vegan counsellor. So a friend suggested Quality Meats, and it really was great. It was a steak house, but with great atmosphere, service and really fantastic preparation of all different kinds of meat. And the evening was even more pleasurable because Raja was able to join us for dinner. 
Raja is a surgeon and is very smart. Even better, he’s just fun to be with, and has a really different perspective on the world. We had a ... read more

I've wanted to visit Athens for quite some time but it never did work out. This year for spring break, we were looking at a few places to visit. Topping the list were Berlin, Dublin, Brussels, and Tokyo. My wife really wanted to go to a warmer destination so I also looked into Lima. Our flights to Athens are always full so I did not even look into going there. I was browsing various flights and to my surprise, the Athens flight actually looked very good for non-revenue travel and so the planning began. I would reach a few travel milestones on this trip so I was very excited. I would pass the one million mile mark for flights taken and I would get my "official" 100th Hard Rock Cafe visit. I reached 100 cafes last ... read more

After an intense five hour rehearsal I decided to reward myself with an excursion in the evening to a dance club (yes, life does go on after 51!). The club came highly recommended by various publications and even has a "splashy" website so I decided that all of my newly acquired purchases (rewards for hard work?) needed to be displayed. First of all, club life tends to begin around 11:00 or so. Usually, in my normal existence back home, the only person I am sharing intimate time at that hour with is Peter Mansbridge and the 11:00 news (with a customary session of yawns, drools and eventual pass out on the couch)...so this was going to be a stretch! Not so...from the outside it appeared quite non-descript, but when I entered the club it was almost ... read more

Just a quick update for today, our last before we fly to Las Vegas tomorrow afternoon. We had a lovely day walking around the university in Princeton, visiting historical Morrisville and fighting the Manhattan traffic to get to our hotel in Queens which is near JFK Airport for tomorrow's flight. Princeton was a really picturesque town with a beautiful university campus. It helped that the sun was shining and at around 26 degrees, it wasn't too hot to walk around and take it slowly. Rachel says she wishes she had come to Princeton University instead of Aberystwyth (I'm not sure why!!!) as she loved the architecture and the tranquility of the place. We drove for an hour to Morrisville, New Jersey which was the place where George Washington lived during the winter in a couple of ... read more

Thought I was playing "ready-or-not" last night, but I was happy with how things turned out this morning, and think I have everything I need in the bags. Wouldn't want to have to search for anything over there...it's a big country, and they just might not have my size :) Christmas treat/dinner was an oversized piping hot Hebrew National hot dog with mustard and relish...Yummy! No place better than New York for those. Think of me as you bite into your veggie burger, chicken, curried goat, or oxtail. My bus has arrived. Will go make myself comfortable at the window seat "L"...it's a very wide ride. Merry Christmas.... read more