New York City?!
Last week was spent up north, in New Jersey and New York City. It strikes me that, this time around, I don't have much to say about it.
The weather was overcast most of the time, which was a blessed relief from the heat we've had down here, and especially welcome with the amount of walking I did. In dress shoes. I was concerned for a while that I might aggravate my fasciitis (I didn't; it just hurt.).
I didn't really do anything I wanted, other than visit the Empire State Building. The line to get up there was amazingly long; I doubt I'll do it again unless I can find a way to avoid the crowds. But I got some decent pictures, the best of which can be found on my Flickr page. And I'm still trying to assemble a panorama of the city, taken across the Hudson in Hoboken.
I was wandering around Times Square, footsore and cranky about not getting much accomplished, when I saw that MTV was filming their TRL show. This made me irrationally angry, especially when I looked at the crowd assembled to lap up such a contrived spectacle. Then it occurred to me that I was actually looking forward to seeing Snakes On A Plane, and I decided that I didn't have much room to be angry after all.
The most useful thing I learned on my trip was how to navigate the Byzantine structures of public transit in place up there (not that I'm expert or anything, but simply knowing your options counts for a lot). Between trains, buses, cabs, and subways, there's really nothing out of reach given sufficient willingness to plot a course. But good luck if you make a wrong turn or get on the wrong train. You're done.
The weather was overcast most of the time, which was a blessed relief from the heat we've had down here, and especially welcome with the amount of walking I did. In dress shoes. I was concerned for a while that I might aggravate my fasciitis (I didn't; it just hurt.).
I didn't really do anything I wanted, other than visit the Empire State Building. The line to get up there was amazingly long; I doubt I'll do it again unless I can find a way to avoid the crowds. But I got some decent pictures, the best of which can be found on my Flickr page. And I'm still trying to assemble a panorama of the city, taken across the Hudson in Hoboken.
I was wandering around Times Square, footsore and cranky about not getting much accomplished, when I saw that MTV was filming their TRL show. This made me irrationally angry, especially when I looked at the crowd assembled to lap up such a contrived spectacle. Then it occurred to me that I was actually looking forward to seeing Snakes On A Plane, and I decided that I didn't have much room to be angry after all.
The most useful thing I learned on my trip was how to navigate the Byzantine structures of public transit in place up there (not that I'm expert or anything, but simply knowing your options counts for a lot). Between trains, buses, cabs, and subways, there's really nothing out of reach given sufficient willingness to plot a course. But good luck if you make a wrong turn or get on the wrong train. You're done.
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