Blogs from Princeton, New Jersey, United States, North America

Saturday August 4,2018 & Sunday August 5,2018 Most of the day at home, I cleaned up my apt and hung out with my cat Sophie until 4:50 pm. I took a quick shower and got dressed in my travel clothes. I was all set,my bags packed and ready to go before the taxi arrived at my apt . The taxi dropped me off at Princeton Junction Train Station around 5:35/5:45 pm. I didn’t have to wait for long before the next train to Newark International Airport arrived. I got to the airport around 7:20 pm and checked my bag through and hung out until it was time to go through security and the gate. Finally after sitting for awhile, I boarded the plane and sat next to some nice folks and then eventually we moved to ... read more

Thursday March 24,2016 ================= After a long day at work- a friend dropped me off to begin my journey down South for Spring Break. Driving all night stopping two times and passing by NJ,NY,Delaware and Maryland before heading into Virginia. Arrived at the first destination around 12:35 am-Friday morning and I unpacked&then went to bed- feeling exhausted. Good Night! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday March 25,2016 =============== Awoke up around 8:15 and had breakfast and then relaxed for awhile. Around 11:30 am- I went out and helped with the grocery shopping and then we had a lunch out at a Noodle restaurant nearby. It was very good but the weather was hot and muggy. Came home and took a nap for a few hours befor... read more

Tuesday August 27,2013 (Ipswich-United Kingdom Morning/ Princeton,NJ U.S.A. Evening) I awoke in the YURT for my last night at Poplar Farm House...and it was quite an adventure. A YURT is a white out door tent that one can assemble and take down easily. A nice place to lay one's head but here is the tragedy part..............no internet and so you have to read via your flashlight. Think of it of being outdoors but yet have the comfort of home close by. Don't worry about the voices of the wild animals you might or not hear in the darkness. Maybe one will just knock on the door and ask "may I have a cup of sugar?". It was fun! Sally and I left for Heathrow Airport around 10:20 am and then stopped by a friend's house in ... read more

Dear All First of all, a very Merry Christmas to one and all! Hope all who are reading this, if it happens to be on Christmas Day, are having a happy and holy holiday season – if not, hope you had a good one! I must admit, contrary to what the title of this blog says, I’m not actually writing this one from New York, but nearby – in a small town called Washington Crossing, just over the border from New Jersey into Pennsylvania state, about an hour by train from the Big Apple. Here is where my “tocaya” lives- tocayo/a is a Spanish word you use to refer to someone with the same name as you, and here lives a distant cousin of mine amazingly called “Alex Waring”, and staying with her here for a ... read more

After another lazy morning we all went into town for brunch at PJ's Pancake House. We had to queue for quite a while in the rain which was a chore, but the pancakes definitely made up for it. I had crepes with strawberries and cream :) Afterwards I headed off by bike to the house of the head coach of Princeton's men's crew. By the time we arrived I was soaked to the skin and must have looked like a tramp. Despite this we had a really good chat about his take on Title IX and the future of US rowing. Given he coaches men, who haven't done so well out of Title IX, I expected him to be a little bitter like the boatman at Cal. On the contrary, he spoke about Title IX as ... read more