Blogs from New York, United States, North America - page 454

I'm sitting in front of my desktop computer at home in Thousand Oaks, California, gearing up to write an entry covering my recent trip out east (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland). It's been over a month since I returned from SE Asia. I loved my experiences on the other side of the globe and have every intention of returning. One of the biggest developments from my travels in SE Asia was meeting Saai, my Thai girlfriend. My trip out east was a result of my desire to see Saai again. Saai is working in Carneys Point, New Jersey, along with 13 other Thai university students during their summer break. They are working at a travel stop (Burger King, Starbucks, TCBY, gas station, etc.) off the New Jersey Turnpike. It's not the ideal summer ... read more

Rough morning today, dinner last night was just a bunch of appetizers and beer so my stomach pretty much hates me today. We were on the road by 9am and on our way to New York. Being that we were going down during the week and it was still early there were only about 5 cars ahead of us at the border. "Why are you coming into the US?" the friendly border guard asked. "Terrorism of course, that President Bush just has to die!" I replied. I really don't like latex gloves anymore. HAHA Just kidding, the border there and back went smooth as butter. I LOVE CRUISE CONTROL. Driving in New York is nowhere nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. Normal rules of the road are complete suggestions down here. ... read more

It seems to me that a lot of people always rhapsodize about places they have traveled to or places that they plan on traveling to. Frequently they do this at the expense of the place that they call home. I am extremely guilty of this. Sometimes I need to stop and look around and realize all the good things that this place has to offer. The reason that I am thinking about this now is that we here in New York have seen some gorgeous weather the past few days. It was 74°F today and the sun is shining. The temperature today in my future home, Sapporo, was 44°F. And it hasn't even reached 50°F there yet this year. This nice spring weather is something I am going to miss next year. I love when the ... read more

Our flight from Las Vegas back to Los Angeles was very bumpy as there were storms. When we went to check in for our next flight, our itinerary was not on the system and we were told that all our ongoing flights had been cancelled!!!! Some computer glitch - all was eventually resolved - not happy :( Had a 6 hour flight to New York, arriving at night. Next morning we took the subway to 42nd street and Times Square. We visited the library (for Sam) and then walked down 5th Avenue, saw the Chrysler building and onto the Empire State building. We only went inside the Empire State as the queue to go to the top was halfway down the next block. We had brunch in a diner on 5th Avenue. We walked around some ... read more

I spent my spring break in NY. And it was unseasonably cold. We toured Sunnyside House former home of Washington Irving amoung other places. Here are my photos from that trip.... read more