First night got to Baltimore airport around 10, rental car by 11, drive to Philly arrive around 1AM EST. Next day look around Philly, UPenn, Drexel, etc...take pictures like those morons we always laugh at around Cal. Then just go around, have some Philly Cheesesteak, then uh forget most of the details. Not a terribly exciting city but at least not horribly bad. Rental car sucked though...but we traded it later for a niceeee car...06 Highlander V6 FWD mmm wheelspin all over the place in NY with me at the wheel cutting off those taxis...haha
After a couple nights there, drove back down to DC...I know what stupid planning, just cuz my brother said there was a bball game at DC Verizon Center so we had to plan around that. Big waste of gas. But anyway we had a lot of walking around there, looking at all the random stuff. Not terribly exciting either. Lots of getting up early to wait in lines, being checked by overpaid security guards, and taking tons of pics. I think there's probably 20 pics of the Washington Monument on my camera...that's after I deleted about 20 or 30 of them already. We got to watch the basketball game, ran into a guy who got us VIP courtside seats (first row) and all, and got to the players buses and everything...was alright. Thanks everyone who called me to wish a happy birthday, I feel so loved haha. So then after this we left DC
And then we drove to NY. I hated NY. The only real good stuff was WTC Memorial (didn't even get any good pics cuz it was night) and Coney Island/Nathan's (good hot dog). Times Square wasn't like I thought, the awesome Malaysian food we had last time kinda no good anymore, didn't get to see David Letterman show, everything is MAD expensive, THERE'S NO GOOD BOBA, etc etc. If I lived there I would probably be very inclined to shoot myself. We were so unimpressed by this city that we checked out a day early to come here to Boston.
I gotta say the drive to Boston has probably been the best part of the trip so far. Up to this point, all the freeways have been low speed, 45-60MPH pieces of police loaded craproads that were probably built by someone with a double digit IQ and only half a good eye. AND you have to pay toll to get anywhere. But hmm driving thru CT, RI and MA were NICEEEE. Very wide open highways, didn't see many police (they probably use undercover photo radar vans and overpass mounted radar by now), and everybody knew how to drive. Never though I'd go 20 over and be in the slow lane being passed by damn near everyone haha. Passed by Yale and Brown on the way...didn't get to go in and see but I'd say I would go crazy if I would have went there...not that I have to worry about going.
So the next part of the trip is to stay in Boston probably for 2 or 3 days, one of those days we have to drive up to Maine, and if we're only staying here 2 days then we'll go back down to DC to see more stuff or possibly drive down to Durham, NC and see Duke Univ. Also going by to see MIT and Harvard.
Hasn't been terribly hot, but I miss my tea. Lots of walking but lots of eating too. It's getting really bad. I lost 15lbs in summer, I think I already put it all back on :( We'll see how it goes from here.
After a couple nights there, drove back down to DC...I know what stupid planning, just cuz my brother said there was a bball game at DC Verizon Center so we had to plan around that. Big waste of gas. But anyway we had a lot of walking around there, looking at all the random stuff. Not terribly exciting either. Lots of getting up early to wait in lines, being checked by overpaid security guards, and taking tons of pics. I think there's probably 20 pics of the Washington Monument on my camera...that's after I deleted about 20 or 30 of them already. We got to watch the basketball game, ran into a guy who got us VIP courtside seats (first row) and all, and got to the players buses and everything...was alright. Thanks everyone who called me to wish a happy birthday, I feel so loved haha. So then after this we left DC
And then we drove to NY. I hated NY. The only real good stuff was WTC Memorial (didn't even get any good pics cuz it was night) and Coney Island/Nathan's (good hot dog). Times Square wasn't like I thought, the awesome Malaysian food we had last time kinda no good anymore, didn't get to see David Letterman show, everything is MAD expensive, THERE'S NO GOOD BOBA, etc etc. If I lived there I would probably be very inclined to shoot myself. We were so unimpressed by this city that we checked out a day early to come here to Boston.
I gotta say the drive to Boston has probably been the best part of the trip so far. Up to this point, all the freeways have been low speed, 45-60MPH pieces of police loaded craproads that were probably built by someone with a double digit IQ and only half a good eye. AND you have to pay toll to get anywhere. But hmm driving thru CT, RI and MA were NICEEEE. Very wide open highways, didn't see many police (they probably use undercover photo radar vans and overpass mounted radar by now), and everybody knew how to drive. Never though I'd go 20 over and be in the slow lane being passed by damn near everyone haha. Passed by Yale and Brown on the way...didn't get to go in and see but I'd say I would go crazy if I would have went there...not that I have to worry about going.
So the next part of the trip is to stay in Boston probably for 2 or 3 days, one of those days we have to drive up to Maine, and if we're only staying here 2 days then we'll go back down to DC to see more stuff or possibly drive down to Durham, NC and see Duke Univ. Also going by to see MIT and Harvard.
Hasn't been terribly hot, but I miss my tea. Lots of walking but lots of eating too. It's getting really bad. I lost 15lbs in summer, I think I already put it all back on :( We'll see how it goes from here.
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