Travel Blogs from Queens, United States
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With sadness
We have arrived back safely to New York on Sunday evening to devastating news. The beautiful Peffer family that we stayed with in Utah, one of their children passed away Saturday night. Our thoughts and prayers are with them at this time. I am now on my ...
And I promised myself I'd update along the way...
Ok, so much for updating along the way, New York is exciting 24/7 so I guess I didn't have the time. Anyway, I'm at JFK Airport, been here for half an hour, my flight's in 3 hours.... I got here early to say the least haha, and that's even with me ...
Hard to put into words...
In 13 days, I will be on a one way flight to Manila. Everybody asks me, "are you getting excited??" And I'm not quite sure how I feel. Excited is definitely one of them, but I am more present to fear, uncertainty,worry. I am scared. For what, I don't ...
Bottoms Off
3.12.12 -> East Village, NYC, New York, USA Hyvää huomenta ja housutonta päivää. Aivan - tänään vietettiin Manhattanilla housutonta päivää. Päivää, jolloin kaduntallaajat ottavat housunsa pois (Näkemäni perusteella muutama olisi voinut ...
Sayonara, Japan
... and eye opening about living in a culture that is so drastically different than your own. My first few days back in the states were very strange. Walking into a department store, for example, really got me. The absence of loud music, ...
Off to a great start...
... a great airport, but.... what am I going to do for 8 hours?? They'd better have wifi. So here I am, in my hotel room in Queens. I've been online, watching tv, and talking on the phone all day, aka my exact agenda at home for the past two weeks. I've also ...
New York City and Armelles 21st!!
The travelpod has kinda got out of order but finally here's the tale of New York City. We were actually staying in Queens which is the borough to the east of manhattan in a fairly nice best western. To get to manhattan we had to get a hotel shuttle bus to ...
T-Minus 24 hours
So, we are officially down to the wire. The countdown has gone from days to hours. This time tomorrow i will be settling in my seat on the plane, preparing for take off. The past week has been pretty squished. I have seen almost everyone on my list, the ...
the countdown reaches single digits
And so it begins... I decided to start a blog to attempt to record these next seven months and keep everyone who cares in the loop. unfortunately I have to admit I have a pretty bad track record when it comes to keeping up with journal-Esq things but I ...
London Calling
Well dark and cloudy, but no rain to date! London has put on a slightly happy face... From the flower markets of columbia road, to the lane ways of brick streets & Spitalfields. We also saw the extremes of Westfield Biggest Eu Mall at Strattford, ...
2012: Year of the Screaming Baby
After two weeks of wonderful goodbye lunches, dinners, parties, talks, cries, etc with family, friends and coworkers it was finally time to dip out on America (ps thanks again to everyone, for everything - so overwhelmingly amazing). We picked Charlotte ...
Film Geek Fun Day
... night leading to another late start. We had breakfast at Bagel Bob's around the corner from E&C's apartment, then headed to Queens to explore the Museum of Modern Image, which is a playground for independent filmmakers like us. Most of the pictures ...
1ère étape
... , pour que les US nous admettent sur leur territoire. C'est à bord d'une Chevrolet Malibu que nous traversons le Queens et le Bronx , laissant à gauche la Skyline de New-York, pour gagner la Nouvelle Angleterre, terre des premiers immigrants ...
I ❤ NY but its time to say goodbye!
Waiting at the airport for our flight to leave the states. It was an exciting day! We even saw Mayor ...
New York!
I made it to new york this morning after a decent flight but I still greatly hate flying. Saw family and friends today, but running on little sleep it felt like this day was never going to end. Although I am not looking forward to the flight I am so ...
venturing outside my own borough
... his family had an extra ticket. Turns out we're sitting in a luxury box with an open bar and buffet. Visited Dave's neighborhood in Queens (it's really charming!) The Mets lose BAD 9-3 but no one cares and we just drink lots of Stella and eat a delicious ...
Jet lag? To nikoho nezajima.
Prvni den jsme meli v planu stravit spise v klidu, srovnavat se s casovym posunem, nakonec jsme ho cely prochodili po manhattnu. Je pulnoc, jdeme spat. Zazitky zitra. Takze první den jsme začali americkou snídaní, tzn. supersladký ...
Ta prava newyorska amerika
Včera byl náročný den a tak jsme si dneska přispali. Venku hodne prsi, tak jsme pro jistotu zustali v posteli do 12. No neprestalo. Mame listky na broadway, na Chicago. Vyrazili jsme o hodinu driv. Metro melo poruchu, museli ...
New York, New York....
Po naprosto úžasném a bezproblémovém letu, který jsme oba dva stejně prospali nás čekala už jen imigrační kontrola. Po tom, co jsem četla různá fóra docela jsem se bála, ale jen nám koukla na pasy, vzala ...
Heading out
Hello everyone, We are patiently waiting to board our flight to Costa Rica! To pass the time, we are watching a movie and people watching. See you on the other side. Love, Amanda and ...
Here at JFK
Got here early and went straight to gate. Mom and Dad are doing the wheelchair jaunt. This guy Barry was pushing Dad while I pushed Mom. I was running while pushing Mom just to keep up, and of course Gate 31 was all the way at the END. He was funny ...
New York, New York
... ... The weekend was pretty mellow--just did a little walk through Central Park, and got caught up on sleep. Jodi lives in Queens....which SOUNDS kinda scary, but it's not. :) Today was fun though--we went on the Double-Decker bus tour of Uptown ...
A night in Queen's NYC
First night in NYC my sister and I took a taxi to Queen's, someone at the hotel told us about this club called Perfections. It ended up being a strip club. When we pulled up it seemed a little sketchy, but we hopped out and joined the line. As soon as we ...
Plane Cancelled
After a detour on the plane due to Iceland volcano, we finally landed at JFK around 6 pm. Our plane was schedule to leave for LAX at 7, I rushed out the door to realize my plane leaving for LAX is delayed till 8. Oh well, Lakers game is ...
Queens
... podívat na kousek čtvrti zvané "královna" a jelikož jsme si spletly linky metra zajeli jsem přímo do centra Queens. Tam šlo skoro i o "kejhák". No to byla pohledy tech nístních :-( Kdo to nezažije, neuvěří ...
Vacation's over
... hours. Once we got into Penn Station in New York, we found a subway that would take us out to Jamaica! (Yes in New York, Queens to be exact). We had to take a taxi to the hotel. Boy did he drive fast! We arrived at our hotel ...
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