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Mar
18
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[the title is a reference to the song "Englishman in New York" by Sting]
For the second time this year (and we're only 3 months in) I'm stranded. Last month it was Washington, this time New York (note to self - don't travel between November and May). I was supposed to leave New York on Friday but I won't get out until 6.30am tomorrow morning (fingers crossed).
I spent most of Friday at LaGuardia until they closed it at 4pm and have spent at least 4 hours on the phone trying to rearrange my travel. I found a useful feature on my Treo - you can have (at least) two calls at the same time a quickly switch between them - great if your stuck in automated queues.
Anyway - I've used the time well - I've pretty much walked the length of Manhattan (humming that song by Sting), saw the Statue of Liberty close up, got to the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building, walked through Central Park and spent a couple of hours at the AMNH (American Museum of Natural History). btw the AMNH is pretty awesome (certainly on par with the Natural History Museum in London).
I've just started to upload pictures here.
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Feb
24
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Well, it seems I was right about something; there was more snow in Chicago than Lake Tahoe (though I never actually made it to Chicago to see for myself). The good news was that our drive was pretty good (driving there : less than 5 hours with a lunch stop and about 4.5 hours on the way back). We had to get way above 6k feet to find decent snow - we took the kids up to Heavenly in the Gondola and drove up to Mount Rose. Looks like they'll be getting a dump this week - relief for the local economy. Pictures to follow.
