Blogs from New York, United States, North America - page 429

Hi Everyone, I am sitting in NYC at Skaggs' new (very cool) office in TriBeCa. Jonina has let me borrow one of their computers and I am taking this opportunity to do my first entry. Very exciting! I arrived in NYC two days ago, spent time with my great friend Geraldine and met her beautiful 12-days old daughter, Talulah. Love NYC. What a place! What energy! Went out and hung out in Soho last night and met some interesting people who were shooting a commercial in the area. I ran several errands today, realized once again that I packed too much and will have to leave a few prized possessions (no, not the hair dryer!) behind me at the post office. The weather turned cold suddenly and it's time to get out before the snow catches ... read more

I took the china town bus from Boston to New York and the driver was on a mission, he was overtaking everything and it only took 3 and a half hours in the end, some people i spoke to at the New York hostel said the same journey had taken them an hour more. Took bloody ages to get to the hostel, i knew it was north of china town but it was only after i bought a map and saw i needed to trek another 103 blocks with the big ass backpack that i reluctantly parted with some cash and got a yellow cab, so i arrived tired, sweaty and not in the best mood ever. After i'd washed i felt better, met a German guy within an hour of arriving, and also some guy ... read more

So since I'm not setting off on my trip to the land down under for another couple of months, I figure I will tell you about the lovely Orange County, NY. Yes, the O.C. The original O.C. since it existed long before the one in California. Although I wasn't born here, I did grow up in Goshen, NY. It's a small town. I like to joke that we don't even have a grocery store. We don't actually have one, but it's not actually that small of a town. I believe the village population is approaching 6,000; the town and village combined is probably around 12,000. Of course if you're from a big city, you consider Goshen tiny...but I'm sure residents of smaller towns further upstate would think Goshen is large. Or even the next town over...Florida, ... read more

Unser letzter Tag bricht an... Nach einem letzten gemeinsamen Fruehstuck (nochmals vielen Dank und viele Hugs an Isolde, Steve, Christopher, Jeremy, Markus, Jessica, Jacob, Alex und Eric) bringt uns Isolde zum 'Watertown International Airport' - ein 'suesser', kleiner Flughafen. Taeglich verkehren hier 6 Flugzeuge, die Stimmung ist fast als familiaer zu bezeichnen und die Koffer werden noch per Hand durchsucht, weil sich eine grosse Durchleuchtungsanlage offensichtlich nicht rentiert... Wir fliegen mit einer kleinen Maschine nach Pittsburgh, von dort mit etwas Verspaetung nach Philadelphia, wo wir trotz (ganz normalem) Chaos auf dem dortigen Flughafen unseren Flieger nach Muenchen rechtzeitig erreichen. Der Flug verlaeft ruhig, aber an Schlaf ist trotzdem kaum zu denken. Vollkommen uebermuedet kommen wir am Samstag Vormittag in Muenchen an und sind dankbar, dass wir von Birgit un... read more

Letzten Sonntag sind wir ueber New York in Syracuse angekommen, wo wir von Roberts Schwester Isolde abgeholt werden. Isolde lebt mit ihrer Familie (Steve und 7 Kinder) im Norden des Bundesstaats New York, nahe der kanadischen Grenze. Die ersten Tage haben wir vor allem dazu genutzt, das amerikanische Familienleben zu geniessen, ein wenig shoppen zu gehen (Walmart Supercenter, 24 Stunden geoeffnet, 365 Tage im Jahr) und uns vor allem zu erholen! Wir sehen uns das neue Grundstueck an, auf dem Steve naechstes Jahr ein neues Haus bauen wird und machen einen kurzen Ausflug zu den '1000 Islands' am St-Lawrence-Strom. Am Mittwoch fahren wir dann ein Stueck nach Osten in die Adirondack Mountains, wo wir den Indian Summer mit den bunten Herbstfarben der Baeume bewundern. Wir uebernachten in Lake Placid, dem ehemaligen Olympiaort und treffen dort immerhin ... read more