Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

I have a new favourite tv show called Man VS Wild.  It’s an English dude called Bear and he gets parachuted into random remote locations and has to find his way out with only a knife as his sole belonging (plus the clothes he is wearing of course.  Where would a naked man keep his knife?….wait, forget I said that, I don’t want to know!)

Got up this morning to rain rain and more rain in NY.  We had four girls crammed into a hotel room, with three of us sleeping in massive king size bed, somehow I ended up with my head on the bedside table for most of the night though.  A king size becomes quite squashy when two of the girls sprawl!  Still, we were all so exhausted that we slept the whole night through (after about 2 hours of chatting though!).

This morning we said goodbye to Christine’s friend Lenny and her sister Caroline, and decided we were going to head to Maine after all, even if we just sat around and weathered out the storm, we were in the mood for crazy adventures.  After a heart stopping cab ride through New York to the airport in which our cabbie avoided 5 accidents in about 100 feet (random cars, obilivious pedestrians, floodwaters etc) we arrived at La Guardia airport to find all flights to Maine cancelled.  After standing in queue pondering our predicament, we announced to the world we were heading to Boston after all by train and Amy thus declared this day to be National Stupid Photos Day and from here we began our “phlog” as we like to call it.  Some highlights which I’ll try to post soon include…..
- My disgustingly greasy cheesy grilled sandwich, complete with stringy cheese the length of a child’s arm.
- Christine being swept away by a hoarde of travellers cramming to get on the Boston bound train
- Various random photos of hideous facial expressions taken in each state we passed through included Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts.  I think I pulled a muscle laughing so hard.  Can you rupture your nose vessells from snorting?
- Suitcase races at Penn Station New York City.

The train ride took about 4 hours, which took us through some lovely countryside which we probably wouldn’t have seen had we flown.  We arrived in Boston at 6pm and met up with Christine’s sister Caroline again and her husband Chris.  Went out to tea at an awesome Italian restaurant called Luigi’s and ate ate ate.  We’re now at Caroline and Chris’ house where will we stay for the next night or two.  Tomorrow we are doing a trolley tour of Boston and will probably continue to add more to our Boston Phlog.  Hopefully I can upload some slides for your continued amusement.  I will try and write more tomorrow.

Mwah from Amnesty