life before.
Spent the weekend in the big Apple, of which Ive only seen a tiny bit
and probably not the good parts . Yesterday I explored some of uptown
and today was downtown, Wallstreet, Battery Park, Soho, Noho, possibly
Tribeca. I dont know, I got lost a lot. But if I hadn't got lost on
53rd trying to find MoMA, for example, I wouldn't have found the
Berlin Wall piece, off the sidewalk in a little courtyard (scene where
world got better). And I found Ground Zero more or less by accident,
wondering briefly why there were all those cranes behind Century 21
(where world careened off into absolutely fucked up with no reset
button) .
Though tawdry Century 21 right next door kind of makes me smile. It
seems kind of wrong, but as I get older I know there's no Right. We
are what we are. We tolerate. We do our best.
Second ever snow experience while I was there. It has stopped snowing
much by afternoon, but the sidewalks were slick with ice. I learned
quickly to not try to walk on a slope (can't keep your balance). You
have to brace your leg muscles at every step for stability. Came
close but did not fall on butt in a grubby snowdrift, or worse, slip
into traffic. I'm sure nobody does that, but if you know me, you know
I'd find a way.
Thanks to the many free wifi providers I used along the way to help me
find stuff not on the Lonely Planet map. This would be the Pod Hotel,
CBS, Staples, the free NY city wifi on Wall Street, and occasionly
Linksys. Another tactic that worked was getting directions off a
display iPhone at AT&T. Heh heh heh.
Five million photos of NY will be going up on my blog shortly.
As an aside, the food's a bit overrated, and the closer to the
tourist strip you go, the crappier and more expensive it gets. Rhode
Island is better.
Note - everyone I sat near in every Starbucks seemed to be a British
tourist. Also tourists asked me for directions a lot.
Other than the ice and losing a glove, no bad experiences. Subway
stinky but not dangerous during day and early evening.
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