I love New York in June. Too bad we went in August.

Actually, it was fun. We spontaneously decided to get on a train and go to NYC, and then spent like eight hours just walking around Manhattan, basically following the paths of whoever happened to be in front of us. To the right is a group picture of all our unwitting guides. Whitney tells me it was actually thirteen hours of walking -- it was just so fun that it only felt like eight.




Central Park! We didn't even get mugged! We were actually kind of disapointed. We've seen enough Law & Order to have expected more. Hard to believe that only twenty paces backwards from this shot was a bustling city.


A religious icon embedded within a landmark of capitalist greed. Mostly, I like how pointy it is.

This is Saint Anthony's, I believe. What? No pictures of the 9-11 site? No tales of meeting Conan O'Brien or attending a Broadway musical? Nope. just St. Anthony's. Other highlights: we ate at some weird cafe and I (Sameer) stumbled around Manhattan for about an hour with debilitating gas pain. We were approached by Hillary Clinton's competitor running for Senate. She asked us to vote for her, but we told her we were from California. She stopped talking to us.

Actually, we DO plan to do all of that fun stuff in a more carefully planned return-trip to NYC -- we just had to get a trip in before school began and life squoze (squeezed? had squeezen?) out any travel opps.