Blogs from New York, United States, North America - page 398

Sunday and Monday (July 15th-16th) I spent on a day off in NYC, and what's more important - finally met BatSheva (who's in Israel by now for quite some time...). After many e-mail co-ordinations we met outside the bus station in NYC and went to the Jazz Hostel near Central Park to put her backpack there. Then we bought bread and hummus and sat on the lawn in Central Park to eat and catch up. Finally meeting her was very exciting and fun, and we just sat on the grass and chatted for a couple of hours. When we finally decided it's time to get up and travel we started walking around the park, getting from one side to the other. We were there on a sunday, so the park was full of people tanning, running, ... read more

DAY 1/240 - Saturday, July 14, 2007 The morning of our departure produced many frustrating, or looked at another way, bad signs, which didn't really assist my anxiety about flying. Take off got delayed in brisbane by over an hour (sitting on the tarmac) due to a problem with some spilt hydraulic fluid from the mobile conveyor belt thing (the one that puts the bags onto the plane). However, aside from my neck pain, the strange lady beside me, and the fact that my ipod docking station wasn't working, the flight wasn't the death of me. Annoyingly, the delay meant we missed our short turnaround flight from LA to NY. The flight they put us on was with American airlines (instead of QANTAS), who managed to lose Meathead's luggage. Very angry Meathead. Anyway we eventually got ... read more

I lost the blog entry for my trip home for Amy and Ben's wedding. I guess it was a little out of place among the stories about Vietnam. I may still write up a whole new entry but I will give a summary for right now. I flew home the 10th of July to be in Amy and Ben's wedding. I would do that horrible 24 hour trip for few people, but Amy and Ben are two of them. It was great seeing everyone (especially Woods) and being a bad bridesmaid with the other lovely bad bridesmaids. We camped out by Lake Erie and the wedding was in Buffalo. After the wedding Woods and I took our time traveling back to JFK, stopping at Houghton to get all nostalgic about the college days and spending the ... read more

Yechoehoehoehoehoe!!! Komende vrijdag vertrekken Jacinta en ik voor een krappe twee weken naar New York. Dat is het startpunt van onze rondreis in de noordoost hoek van Amerika en de zuidoost hoek van Canada. Globaal gaan we vanuit New York richting Boston, dan duiken we Canada in naar Quebec City. Vervolgens Montreal, Toronto en via de Niagara Falls weer terug de USA in. Dan naar Amish Country/Harrisburg (geen idee wat we daar moeten doen :-D), Washington DC, Philadelphia (Adriiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!!) en weer terug naar New York! Daarna zijn we aan vakantie toe... ;-) Zullen de foodcourts in Canada net zo groot zijn..... :-((((... read more

Here I am in New York City! Wow is this a change from living at Gema's house. 0-60 in an hour and 20 minute ride on the Metro North commuter train. People in NY (and I suppose this is sort of true of most cities compared to smaller towns...) walk fast, go fast, everything is very quick and a little stressful. I've had to be careful not to be "that wandering gawking idiot tourist that made me walk around them". Constantly. But it's nice for me, because in the past day I've had enough things happen to warrant pages of journal writing, where Gema's house was a lot less interesting (but plenty necessary, I needed a break). To start off, I arrived at 1130ish at Grand Central Terminal, which is probably easy to figure out if ... read more