Blogs from New York, New York, United States, North America - page 297

NY Day 1-3 We popped by the Museum of Sex, wanting to check out how much 'sex' they have in store...much to the anticipation and multiple requests from jinwei. :p The door of the building leads us right into the souvenir store of the museum. The ticket counter at the side said we got to pay abt $14 i think to view the museum. So while considering, we took a walk ard the shop first. On sale were books on sex, sexual issues, sex toys..blah. Not much actually, but quite a handful of 'educational' books. Then suddenly, the guy mending the entrance to the museum walked up to me and said: "You girls want to go into the museum?" "Erm maybe, just looking around first." And he replied, "Don't go in. It's not worth your money. ... read more

NY Day 1-5 One of the tallest standing buildings in midtown Manhattan, the Empire State Bldg is really hard to miss. And it's only abt 10min walk from our hostel! So we made this the last stop for the day. When we stepped into the door of the bldg, there was already a queue formed from don't know where. And the waiting time stated was 40min. Wahh...and rem i said how shaq we were from the museum walk already? Seriously, no one could truly understd the fatigue we felt except for the 4 of us. Besides, to go up to the viewing gallery at the top of the Empire State Bldg will cost $21. So we decided to give it a miss this time... After which we dragged ourselves back to the hostel and concussed flat ... read more

NY Day 1-1 Our first stop in the cool breeze morning of Manhattan was to go Columbia University. Yunru's canoeing teammate studies there and she has arranged to meet him when she comes NY. Columbia Uni is located at uptown Manhattan near Harlem (where most of the blacks are i was told aka HEI REN QU). But we didnt exactly go into Harlem, so i didnt get a feel of the 'black neighborhood' as yet. The uni was bigg... and it feels real good to walk ard the vast school campus, while enjoying the sun rays on yr face in the slightly cold morning. All ard us, students were moving out of their hostels...loading all their barangs into mini vans as their exams just ended the day before and it's the start of summer hols! Certain ... read more

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

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