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One of the stops I made while visiting New York City in February was the National September 11 Memorial. I didn’t say anything about it then, but given that today is 9/11, it seems appropriate to bring it up.
Honestly, it was very well done – capturing, somehow, an [...] The problem with my 18:00 CET photos is that I had to tell a story about what was happening to me at 18:00 CET, which was, of course, noon in New York, Last Friday, at noon, I wasn’t doing the most interesting of things that I did Friday; I was visiting the Strand bookstore. At [...] I’m happy to report that I am at home – my flight arrived back in Berlin some 3 hours late, due, at first, to the fact that a plane landed on one of the Newark runways with its nose-gear up – which ended up closing the airport for awhile, and then, secondly, due to a [...] Today is my last day in the States – if all goes well, in a mere 5 hours, I will be somewhere over New England on my way back to Germany. At noon EST, 18:00 CET, we were at a US Post Office in Greenwich Village – my Sagittarius Amigo wrote seven postcards, but had [...] This photo turned out to be slightly more problematic than I expected, to be honest – Sunday morning my Sagittarius Amigo and I took the Harlem Gospel Walking Tour from Harlem Heritage Tours. After an interesting hour long introductory talk at the offices of the company, we walked over to the Canaan Baptist Church of [...] The duck led a happy life and, therefore, made me happy at lunch. At noon Saturday I found myself in the heart of New York City’s China Town eating Peking Duck at Peking Duck House. Tour Guide Bert It was a part of the Chinatown Food and Culture Walking Tour offered by Foods [...] This morning my Sagittarius Amigo and I met for breakfast at 7. He’s suffering from jetlag and, having had woken up at 03:30, informed me that USA Today was a terrible newspaper. After breakfast we left the hotel and over the next several hours we first took the Staten Island Ferry to and from Staten [...] Ah, it occurs to me that I will soon visit my 48th state, and before I do, I want to knock off my key memories of the rest of the country. So, starting with Wisconsin, my main memory is visiting the site of Little House in the Big Woods, another Laura Ingalls Wilder stop – [...] I was in bed, asleep, when I heard an SMS arrive. 5 AM. Holy shit Osama .bin laden is dead. I sort of fell back asleep – waking an hour later at my usual time, heading off to work, passively reading bits and pieces of news on the Internets during pauses in work. Truthfully, while [...] |
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