Monday, October 02, 2006
My first road trip...
Hi Guys,
Yupz, just came back last night from my first road trip. Went up with Mark, Weijie (fellow friends from NOC) and Yiping. (Good friend from Singapore) Can you imagine we drove 1000 miles??? haha. Well technically only Mark and Weijie drove so all thanks to them that Yiping and I got to enjoy such a wonderful trip. Lots of photos...
The plan was to set off at 4am... but guess wat? When we met at 4 outside our houses (Mark and Weijie live just across the street), we realised that our car had a BLOWN TIRE! So we had to change the tire at 4am in a slight drizzle. Then a drunk american couple walked past and told us "it sucks having to change tire at 4 in the morning, come have some beer and weed". Well we politely declined and they went into their house promising to bring us some beer and food, but I guess they probably fainted right after going into their house. Haha! Well, hardly the best way to start a trip but what's a road trip without a little adventure yah?
The first place we visited is Boston. We drove up with lots of expectations because we have heard so much about how wonderful Boston is! We did the freedom trail which is a walk around the city's historic landmarks... It is marked by a red line of stones around the city.
Along the freedom trail is a place called Faneuil Hall where they had a food court selling all sorts of food, a market selling all sorts of things, and street performers.
After that we also took the Boston subway to visit the famed Harvard and MIT. Well to be honest, Harvard was beautiful, but the air has a weird smell. Its located at the north of Boston and is pretty much like Penn, a self contained cute little town focused around the University. MIT was sadly quite dead when we went there. So yeah, not as great as we expected them to be. But still, it is great just to be there and absorb a little of their history. The intellectual atmosphere is absolutely infectious when you know that you are at a place where the world's smartest people live and study.
The founder of Harvard, John Harvard.
One of the Harvard libraries...
MIT... a few nice buildings here and there but largely a very quiet place which gives off a very scholarly feeling. I think it should be very conducive for research. :)
At the end of the night, we found a nice restaurant called the Purple Shamrock in downtown Boston where we had a lobster dinner which was cheap and good! The famed Boston lobsters... simply delectable!
What a DAY!!! Anyway, I wanted to post the whole trip at one go... butI just have too many
pictures so I am going to make multiple posts. That's all for Day 1 in Boston. Will try to post the other 2 days as soon as I get some time during the week. Till then... enjoy and take care!
Yupz, just came back last night from my first road trip. Went up with Mark, Weijie (fellow friends from NOC) and Yiping. (Good friend from Singapore) Can you imagine we drove 1000 miles??? haha. Well technically only Mark and Weijie drove so all thanks to them that Yiping and I got to enjoy such a wonderful trip. Lots of photos...
The plan was to set off at 4am... but guess wat? When we met at 4 outside our houses (Mark and Weijie live just across the street), we realised that our car had a BLOWN TIRE! So we had to change the tire at 4am in a slight drizzle. Then a drunk american couple walked past and told us "it sucks having to change tire at 4 in the morning, come have some beer and weed". Well we politely declined and they went into their house promising to bring us some beer and food, but I guess they probably fainted right after going into their house. Haha! Well, hardly the best way to start a trip but what's a road trip without a little adventure yah?
The first place we visited is Boston. We drove up with lots of expectations because we have heard so much about how wonderful Boston is! We did the freedom trail which is a walk around the city's historic landmarks... It is marked by a red line of stones around the city.
Along the freedom trail is a place called Faneuil Hall where they had a food court selling all sorts of food, a market selling all sorts of things, and street performers.
After that we also took the Boston subway to visit the famed Harvard and MIT. Well to be honest, Harvard was beautiful, but the air has a weird smell. Its located at the north of Boston and is pretty much like Penn, a self contained cute little town focused around the University. MIT was sadly quite dead when we went there. So yeah, not as great as we expected them to be. But still, it is great just to be there and absorb a little of their history. The intellectual atmosphere is absolutely infectious when you know that you are at a place where the world's smartest people live and study.
The founder of Harvard, John Harvard.
One of the Harvard libraries...
MIT... a few nice buildings here and there but largely a very quiet place which gives off a very scholarly feeling. I think it should be very conducive for research. :)
At the end of the night, we found a nice restaurant called the Purple Shamrock in downtown Boston where we had a lobster dinner which was cheap and good! The famed Boston lobsters... simply delectable!
What a DAY!!! Anyway, I wanted to post the whole trip at one go... butI just have too many
pictures so I am going to make multiple posts. That's all for Day 1 in Boston. Will try to post the other 2 days as soon as I get some time during the week. Till then... enjoy and take care!
