Hi All.
We have now arrived in New York. The last week in Boston was fun, as we got to see the Aquarium, The Boston Science Museum and Harvard (or Hahvad) as the locals spell it. We also got to go shopping in an "outlet village". Heaven for wannabe Paris Hiltons, depressing for me. Freya loved it however and Chris shrugged his shoulders and got on with it.
Although the Aquarium was smaller than the one in Atlanta, it was far better designed and included a massive tank holding a miniature coral reef. The original intention as far as the Aquarium went was to go whale watching, however we arrived to late to catch the boat, so we went to the Aquarium instead.
The Boston Science Museum however was massive, think INTECH and then quadruple it, and then make it grow up, and you have the science museum. I could happily have spent a couple of days exploring it and going to the various lectures they held. Unfortunately we only had a few hours and only saw a fraction of the exhibits.
Harvard was interesting. The campus was beautiful, and there where some very nice museums, however due to poor planning we failed to find the constiution and Bunker Hill, which we where told where in the area.
Our journey to New York was uneventful, despite the promises of some Bostonians that the Fung Wah bus would either crash, or be attacked by gangsters, and now hear we are in the Big Apple deciding what to do for the next few days before we get home.
See you all soon. Dan
Thursday, 30 August 2007
Thursday, 23 August 2007
sorry in Boston now
Sorry everyone who has been following us for the lack of posting it's been completely my fault, either been to tired or forgetful to do it.
Well Boston, its a beautiful city that is for sure wv're been wondering aimlessly round it for the past few days just getting a feel for the city but I feel its been worth it. we did a walking tour of the city today, was about two and a half hours but the tour guide was really good and we got to know loads about the history of the city.
We have been staying with the Waldinger's for the past six days but we are being forced to move on, but we shall not go far, we are going to stay with James and Frayer until the 30th, at least
dan thiniks that is when he booked the hostel in NY but he keeps forgeting to check so I may have to beat him until he does it tonight, but dont worry, I wont do it hard.
You will all be pleased to know, well we are anyway, tat we are done with Greyhound buses. We are going to take a bus called the Fung Wah buss to NY. Its the longest running bus in the USA started by a Korean family to transport the oriental families to NY so they could work. They just take anybody now but it only cost $10 so we dont care and its only a four hour trip. Greyhound however gave us a good send off, a perfect 12 hour trip from Niagara. They got us there dead on time and we were never waiting arround, just getting off one bus and on to the next on the 2 transfers we had to make. unfortionatly that gave us no time to eat for that time and as we hadnt had breakfast either...well you can imagine.
Well must go my stomach is telling my food is ready and Jenifer's cooking is not to be missed.
See you all soon, 13 days beth tells me, and just over 1million seconds, well it was about 10 hours ago, i'll let you wrk out how many left now.
Chris and Dan
Well Boston, its a beautiful city that is for sure wv're been wondering aimlessly round it for the past few days just getting a feel for the city but I feel its been worth it. we did a walking tour of the city today, was about two and a half hours but the tour guide was really good and we got to know loads about the history of the city.
We have been staying with the Waldinger's for the past six days but we are being forced to move on, but we shall not go far, we are going to stay with James and Frayer until the 30th, at least
dan thiniks that is when he booked the hostel in NY but he keeps forgeting to check so I may have to beat him until he does it tonight, but dont worry, I wont do it hard.
You will all be pleased to know, well we are anyway, tat we are done with Greyhound buses. We are going to take a bus called the Fung Wah buss to NY. Its the longest running bus in the USA started by a Korean family to transport the oriental families to NY so they could work. They just take anybody now but it only cost $10 so we dont care and its only a four hour trip. Greyhound however gave us a good send off, a perfect 12 hour trip from Niagara. They got us there dead on time and we were never waiting arround, just getting off one bus and on to the next on the 2 transfers we had to make. unfortionatly that gave us no time to eat for that time and as we hadnt had breakfast either...well you can imagine.
Well must go my stomach is telling my food is ready and Jenifer's cooking is not to be missed.
See you all soon, 13 days beth tells me, and just over 1million seconds, well it was about 10 hours ago, i'll let you wrk out how many left now.
Chris and Dan
Monday, 13 August 2007
Leaving Springreen.
Hi All.
Well we're leaving Springreen today, and are heading out to the Canadian Niagara Falls.
The stay in Springreen has proved to be a much needed rest, as well as chance to catch up on family and watch four very different, but very high quality plays. I believe Chris has already covered Much Ado, and The Merchant of Venice. However we have also been to see Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams and a much cut version of Timon of Athens. Both of these where incredibly powerful productions, and very well performed.
We also played with some of the local football, sorry soccer, players. Chris and I found ourselves playing comfortably within our ability range, but we certainly didn't outclass the others. Aside from this the last couple of weeks has been largely uneventful, but that is pretty much what we needed at this point. Niagara, Boston and New York should prove to be far more eventful.
Dan.
Well we're leaving Springreen today, and are heading out to the Canadian Niagara Falls.
The stay in Springreen has proved to be a much needed rest, as well as chance to catch up on family and watch four very different, but very high quality plays. I believe Chris has already covered Much Ado, and The Merchant of Venice. However we have also been to see Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams and a much cut version of Timon of Athens. Both of these where incredibly powerful productions, and very well performed.
We also played with some of the local football, sorry soccer, players. Chris and I found ourselves playing comfortably within our ability range, but we certainly didn't outclass the others. Aside from this the last couple of weeks has been largely uneventful, but that is pretty much what we needed at this point. Niagara, Boston and New York should prove to be far more eventful.
Dan.
Monday, 6 August 2007
Hello all, still typing from here in Spring Green, we're here 'till Monday as they say. Spring Green is great, if a little small and quiet. We cant say that there hast been lots to do though, lots of walking around exploring the shops and the town. David (who we're staying with) is the Producing Artistic Director of the American Players Theater. This means that we have been given free tickets to as many shows as we want to see. So far we've seen Much Ado About Nothing and Merchant of Venice, its a Shakespearian theater by the way. Much Ado was amazing , very funny and generally great, we both loved it. Merchant was still just as good, cant be the easyest of plays to act in but they seemed to to a generally good job. First have was good but a bit lackluster but the second half was great. May still go see Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams apparently he is the American answer to Shakespeare.
going to show the Americans some real sport tomorrow, theres two English guys who come over here once a year to teach football to the kids, or something similar so we shall go watch the game and possibly play. other than that its just lots more walking around planned I believe.
Weather here has turned humid again but its bearable so far I here the weather has quietened down back home, but only to be replaced with the new foot and mouth problem hope that it doesn't spread.
Hope all is well with everyone, we're both good here.
Chris and Dan
going to show the Americans some real sport tomorrow, theres two English guys who come over here once a year to teach football to the kids, or something similar so we shall go watch the game and possibly play. other than that its just lots more walking around planned I believe.
Weather here has turned humid again but its bearable so far I here the weather has quietened down back home, but only to be replaced with the new foot and mouth problem hope that it doesn't spread.
Hope all is well with everyone, we're both good here.
Chris and Dan
Tuesday, 31 July 2007
hello all, as promised to my adoring fans i'm back for another update. well Chicago was great, I only wish that we had at least two more days there but could have spent well over a week there. As it was we only did the Field Museum, a natural history museum that took over 5 hours and even then we could have spent another hour or so if we did everything. We also went up to the Hancock Observatory, which is a 94th floor open air viewing platform. we also went to see a totally random play that has been running for over 30 years. 30 plays in 60 mins it's called. it changes every week so you can go see it every time an it will be different each time.
Well after an uneventful 3 hour Greyhound journey we arrived in Madison. We were met by a random guy who was holing up a name tag. turns out hes a friend of Gwen's (the person were staying with for the next few days.) called Tim, he was ok and took us to a coffee shop to await our ride from Tora who looked after us this afternoon. I've fallen in love with Madison already and im going to buy a house here, its really cheap to buy here as well.
We're looking forward to this part of the trip, we are with Gwen for the next few days. then we shall no doubt turn up at David's somehow.
well we have to go out going to a park that overlooks the lake next to the town and it has a bar that severs it so it should be beautiful but I shall let you know.
Hope all is well back home, I've heard the rain has stopped at last so that is all good.
look forward to yous comments and e-mails.
Chris
Well after an uneventful 3 hour Greyhound journey we arrived in Madison. We were met by a random guy who was holing up a name tag. turns out hes a friend of Gwen's (the person were staying with for the next few days.) called Tim, he was ok and took us to a coffee shop to await our ride from Tora who looked after us this afternoon. I've fallen in love with Madison already and im going to buy a house here, its really cheap to buy here as well.
We're looking forward to this part of the trip, we are with Gwen for the next few days. then we shall no doubt turn up at David's somehow.
well we have to go out going to a park that overlooks the lake next to the town and it has a bar that severs it so it should be beautiful but I shall let you know.
Hope all is well back home, I've heard the rain has stopped at last so that is all good.
look forward to yous comments and e-mails.
Chris
Saturday, 28 July 2007
Amtrak
Hi all.
Dan again, I'll get Chris to do the next update.
We have finally arrived in Chicago after spending over 30 hours on various trains. I have to admit that Amtrak failed to live up to the horror stories we had heard, arriving only half an hour late for both of the trains we caught.
We were also delighted to discover that we were giving copious leg room. I.e. enough for Chris to stretch. In fact the only bad point was the guy playing horror films on his laptop next to us. (I may be a spoil sport, but there's something about having to listen to screams of pain and nasty gristly sounds that fails to appeal to me.) However even he turned out to be a decent lad, and changed the films to Family Guy and X-Men 3 both of which where far more bearable.
The hostel we are staying at looks to be the most professional one yet. But as yet it is a bit early for first impressions.
Hope everyone is enjoying themselves back in England.
Dan.
Dan again, I'll get Chris to do the next update.
We have finally arrived in Chicago after spending over 30 hours on various trains. I have to admit that Amtrak failed to live up to the horror stories we had heard, arriving only half an hour late for both of the trains we caught.
We were also delighted to discover that we were giving copious leg room. I.e. enough for Chris to stretch. In fact the only bad point was the guy playing horror films on his laptop next to us. (I may be a spoil sport, but there's something about having to listen to screams of pain and nasty gristly sounds that fails to appeal to me.) However even he turned out to be a decent lad, and changed the films to Family Guy and X-Men 3 both of which where far more bearable.
The hostel we are staying at looks to be the most professional one yet. But as yet it is a bit early for first impressions.
Hope everyone is enjoying themselves back in England.
Dan.
Thursday, 26 July 2007
Goodbye Asheville, Hello Chicago (eventually)
Hi All. Dan hear again.
Sorry about the late update, it completely slipped my mind to update the blog until today. Our stay with Charlotte and Micheal has been great, but we have decided it is time to move on, and are heading up to the windy city. Due to the long nature of this trip, we have decided to risk the trains. (not a prospect I'm to thrilled about, having heard horror tales from other travelers.)
We have had great fun in Asheville, aided by Sam and his friends, including a gorge walk, tubing down a river, (sitting in an inflatable ring, and just drifting down), getting thrashed at basketball (no surprise there) and general laziness. I should also complement, Charlotte on her cooking, which has been uniformly fantastic, especially bearing in mind the irritation of having a vegetarian suddenly dropped on her.
I hope all is going well back in the UK.
Dan.
Sorry about the late update, it completely slipped my mind to update the blog until today. Our stay with Charlotte and Micheal has been great, but we have decided it is time to move on, and are heading up to the windy city. Due to the long nature of this trip, we have decided to risk the trains. (not a prospect I'm to thrilled about, having heard horror tales from other travelers.)
We have had great fun in Asheville, aided by Sam and his friends, including a gorge walk, tubing down a river, (sitting in an inflatable ring, and just drifting down), getting thrashed at basketball (no surprise there) and general laziness. I should also complement, Charlotte on her cooking, which has been uniformly fantastic, especially bearing in mind the irritation of having a vegetarian suddenly dropped on her.
I hope all is going well back in the UK.
Dan.
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