Ahhhhh... SO much better than the hostel.
Central Park West about 9am.
I finally meet a guy who has thicker eyebrows than I.
I bought from him Khlav Kalash and some refreshing crab juice.As some of you may or may not already know, Cathryn and I are planning on doing some traveling in May. Part of the trip is a stop over in New York so we can visit a good friend as well as break up the long flight to Italy. I wanted to stay at the hotel that I stayed at during my previous (and only) visit to NY, but couldn't for the life of me remember what it was. After searching through several years of credit card receipts, I finally found the place! It's call the
Ameritania and boy howdy is it fancy!
Strategically located on 54th & Broadway, it's right around the corner from where they tape the Late Show. I thought I was getting some sort of deal through Amex for $100 a night, but there was a minimum stay and I didn't make it. I got to say hello to $250 a night! But it was worth it. The place was awesome and located near all kinds of things (besides the Ed Sullivan Theater, Times Square, Penn Station, Central Park, NY MOMA, numerous main subway stations, and a pom frites shop downstairs).
The trip was a crossroads of sorts for me... I suddenly decided to go to New York to escape my life, burnout from work, and to visit the twin towers site; two weeks later I was eating an apple at 11pm in a hostel off of Central Park West.
I've gone through and scanned some NYC pics from five years ago (!) and hope you enjoy. In the meantime, here's a really tangential tangent about going through my credit card statements... What you buy really does in a way, show a snap shot of your life. I regularly purchased lunch from the Boardwalk deli in Tiburon because the Questus office was still located there, Miller's Outpost was still in business (I don't even
want to know what possessed me to buy something from that fashionless establishment), there was a charge for Sushi House in Alameda that marked a horrible date, a charge for Dave & Buster's where I celebrated my 30th birthday, and a general
lack of charges which marked me not getting out of the house nearly enough.
A few months after that seminal trip, I joined the now storied 20's-30's Yahoo! group and you can see charges from Thallasa, Lanesplitters, The Left Bank, Bellagio, Sushi California, etc. that show that I finally began socializing. I met a lot of new people, made many good friends that are still good friends to this day, and grew exponentially (compared to where I was) as a person in every way that's important :)