Golden Gate Inn Brooklyn

... walkway featuring over 10,000 hand-painted panels. We saw carefully designed rockeries and temples in the Beihai and Yuyuan Gardens. We were wowed by the scale of China’s cities and their unfettered pace of change (though we mourned the loss of Beijing’s hutongs). From the bright skyline of Hong Kong—dramatically squished between mountains and bisected by the ever shrinking Causeway Bay—to the twisting shapes of Shanghai’s new ...

... options to incorporate all four of us - maybe we could get a room for four in a hotel?  Sure enough, looking around on the web we found a good, cheap(ish) hotel - awesome!  Hold on... New Jersey.  Ah, shouldn't be a problem, it's really only a few miles, can't be too hard eh? Hmmm.   Met the girls at Central Station and after a little exploration of Broadway and Times Square, headed on foot towards New Jersey (i.e. to save taxi fare) only to pick one of those ...

... for the B-rate movie Teen Witch in the 90s. Shame, shame, dirty shame... for us!! Brian, Mamaushka and I decided to hang a bit longer as we all quickly vibed with the people there and joined them for the after party at Automatic Slims (vastly different then the ones back in Florida but just as fun... if not more, dare I say...) After lots of drinking, singing, and dancing, before we knew it, it was 6AM by the time we got home... (no sleep till Brooklyn ...

... is the UK. I wont bore you with the silly details of how they did not have a clue how to get the paper work and assistants ready. Anyway, Wednesday was much better. There was another autopsy case with lots of interesting problems and history. This time I dissected out the kidneys with the adrenal glands and followed the plumbing down to the bladder etc. I also got the exciting job of searching the bowels for pathology ...

... and cursing Malcolm's name while he slept peacefully, I found them in the bathroom (don't ask). Now, I'm wide awake and 80 bucks richer (fingers crossed that I can exchange them in South Africa). I'm going to watch the new Project Runway and hopefully fall asleep soon. Our flight leaves at 11:20 tomorrow morning, so I planned to leave ...

... of eastern time at the moment). I plan to spend six weeks in the Big Apple (it appears South America has one, too) learning Spanish. My current vocabularly consists of "hello," "two beers please," and such useful phrases as "the car is not yellow, the car is red," so I have a lot to learn. While based out of Buenos Aires, I am also planning a trip to Uruguay for a few days and about a week going up to some pretty spectacular waterfalls on the border with Brazil and ...

... it is air conditioned but not pleasant. A child pops its ugly head over the seat in front of me and starts screaming in some high pitched language I've not heard before. It penetrates every pore in my body and I'm so tense I could erupt. I close my eyes and will god to remove this horrible child before i do something I regret. Thankfully the mother and it gets thrown off the bus and thats another story. The bus driver is the ...

... NBC here in the city. He literally has the coolest job ever. My brother and I grew up hanging out on the set on SNL and we've gotten to meet some of the coolest people (Blink 182, My Chemical Romance, Derek Jeter, Hanson, Fall Out Boy, Green Day, Natalie Portman, and so many others, including the different cast members from throughout the years with Will Ferrel, Chris Kattan, Molly Shannon and Cheri O'Teri being the nicest). I've ...

... smelt good and was beautiful. ok, nice compliments right? well, at 9pm on a friday night going into a beer/corner store in an all black neighbourhood it didn't feel good. it freaked me out so bad. nothing bad happened though. i made it to katie's and we had champagne. but i want to say that yes, harlem is like in the movies. chris rock's tv show "everybody hates chris" is very accurate about black communities. ppl were sitting on the steps in front ...