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Published: February 11th 2008
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Both us (real) and you (cyber) have stopped travelling east and now are back on the West Coast and beginning the trip home. In summary since the last blog we've finished with NY, done Boston and started on San Francisco, so we have a lot to catch you up on.
Over the last days in NY we spent time with Trisha and Len at their small but lovely apartment with its great roofgarden near Central Park. Trisha, Col and I spent the last day in Queens at Noguchi's sculpture garden and gallery before we loaded our gear and went by subway and Amtrack to Boston.
Our friends (who we had found on the Yangtze in 2003), Doug, Hong and Alli met us and we explored the waterfront and the markets. Saw a moving Holocaust Memorial with each stack representing a different camp. As you walk through you pass over grates with smoke coming up and each column is inscribed with the victims numbers and individual quotes form survivors. Again a simple but effective memorial.
We stayed at Arlington in Boston and watched the grass grow (literally as Doug had just seeded the lawn) and the squirrels who attempted
to dig it all up! Boston is changing with some overhead roads being replaced by tunnels but the light rail remains and Col had fun riding the trams! We saw the Blue man Group - lots of fun - did anyone catch it in Sydney? They may be back so worth going to if they do.
Over the Memorial Day weekend Doug took us north as far a Rockport and around the city. We made a return visit to Filene's Bargain basement in memory of ICP and the Principals on tour in 1997! We took a car down to Newport Rhoide Island before going by ferry from Galilee, south of Providence, to Block Island for 2 days (a tiny picturesque New England settlement). We liked Newport so much we returned for a night and a day, saw the Vanderbilts "Breakers" mansion and did the Cliff walk as well as remembering our America's Cup victory! The annual Clam Chowder festival on that day attracted thousands.
Back near Boston we went to the De Codova sculture Gardens amd spent our last day with our friends at Harvard Yard. I'm still talking to Col after he explored every back street in
An example of his work
This is a beautiful gallery - took lots of photos Boston when we got lost - despite my clear instructions that he regularly ignored.
The weather was all over the place. On May 25 Boston had a max of 12 and on June 5 it went to 35!
NEWS - in 7 weeks Aus has had 4 mentions in the news, Kylie's illness, Schappelle's sentence, the whales in WA and in the only headline the arrest of Russell Crowe. So thanks to everyone who has sent us snippets on the water restrictions, Putney and the state of DET - keep them coming please.
We were lucky to get out of Boston (most flights grounded due to huge storms) and were one of only two flights to leave. We flew N to Canada, down the lakes (over Michigan Doug), across the saltpans of Utah and the snow of the Rockies and High Sierras. It was a spectacular flight as we skirted storm clouds to the south.
We are safely in SF staying in the Noe Valley with our hosts, retired professors of Anthropology from Stanford. Col is reading one of George's books "Basta! The Zapatista rebellion in Chiapis" an area in Mexico her has researched since 1960.
He even speaks fluent Tzotzil - a language we are sadly lacking in expertise!
Ross and Helen are due tonight and it will be great to catch up on the trip so far before we head north.
Got to close now as Col wants to take me on yet another tram ride. With luck we'll get the 1950 Melbourne tram (why come so far I say to ride a Melbourne tram?)
Love to all Lyn and Col
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