Blogs from New York, United States, North America - page 479

This is the start of my first ever Travel Blog. Trying this out for my first time. Wanna document all the wonderful memories i've had in US for the past 2 mths! (13May - 11Jul 2005) The airline we took was EVA Airways. (Taiwan airline) When we first board the plane, we were all pretty disappointed that we had no personal in-flight entertainment! ARGH. But nvm..we still survived. Eat, sleep, strain my neck to check out the tv screen up there in the distance, listen to my MP3 player or just plain staring into space is what i did to pass time. At first, we only know that we had to transit over at Taipei. But over at Taipei, only then we found out the plane is gg to fly us to Seattle first (west coast), ... read more

We just purchased my plane tickets for Japan. I'm leaving from JFK (don't even get me started on what time I'll have to be at the airport) on August 22nd and through weird time warps (and a gazillion hour stop in Detroit) I'll arrive in Osaka at 18.15. I think the KG people will come and pick me up around 20.00 or sometime thereafter. Hopefully there will be other students en route to Osaka from Detroit, else that's going to be a very long, dull wait. Good thing there's WiFi in all terminals, or so their website says. I'm coming home through more time warps and arriving in New York on the 14th. I was originally going to stay until the 21st, but I wasn't sure if staying that long after exams/classes would be an impedement ... read more

Our final stop in the US before the real travelling begins!! Sara successfully negotiated the subway to meet her mum at JFK - a 4 hour round trip in total!! We highly recommend meeting your mum at some point on a round the world trip as the standard of accommodation dramatically improves!! The Hyatt was right beside Grand Central Station (a relief with our rucksacks!!) the room overlooked the Chrysler Building - perfect! Were real tourists and took a bus trip to get orientated around Manhatten and then spent the afternoon getting some culture, watcing Denzel Washington (live!!) in Julius Caeser in the Belasco Theatre - a real treat!! Had some difficulty finding somewhere to eat that night (something to do with being in the financial sector on a sunday night!!). Took another bus tour and ... read more

From: fran the man Sent: Friday, 29 April 2005. To: everyone Subject: On My Way To London Well New York’s been lovely I’ve almost done it all, Empire state, statue of Liberty, MOMA, Guggenheim, Macys, Bloomingdales, etc not enough quality time at central park though nor have I been to the Met - will try tomorrow though. Am staying in a cool hostel with some cool people and some strange people. I went up the empire state building -no King Kong as he's in Wellington at the moment, It was rather windy but the views over New York were stunning. The Guggenheim had this wicked exhibition on by this artist with a fascination for stripes; he’s put coloured stripes all over the interior and the roof along with a big wall of mirrors. If you threw ... read more

I'm playing catch up with these travelblogs as I've left New York, partied in New Orleans and am currently sunning myself in Miami Beach. Anyway... New York was great and we managed to see and do most of the things we wanted to in a short space of time. If I go back there then I'd use the time to wander around some of the areas that I didn't see and just take in the place a little more. I'm glad that we went to most of the tourist attractions, but a little more time to kick back and relax would have been nice. Our hostel was in the Upper West Side and it was a little too close to Harlem for my liking. The walk from the subway to the hostel was through a housing ... read more