ameritrip

two days and i saw so much;

new york city's lady liberty,

philadelphia's independance hall,

chicago's sears tower and

denver's grey-green mountains.

my weekend adventure was just that,

an absolute adventure.

flying standby to popular destinations

resulted in much waiting and not knowing,

but also ended in a side trip to chicago's

rogers park to crash at a friend's apartment.

although i hate to say it, it's really so very true;

even more than visiting and catching up,

i loved the traveling, like i always have.

perhaps it helped i was traveling with friends,

or that new york fell upon fresh eyes,

but new york was certainly the highlight of my trip.

from times square to central park to just walking around,

(i've only ever been in manhatten),

there aren't many parts of the city i don't like.

i even navigated without a map. and i got around like a local.

it's easy, really; 'streets' run east to west, with numbers that

help locate them, southern streets are lower numbers,

northern streets are higher ones.

Avenues run north to south, with lower numbered avenues

being to the west, getting higher as you walk east.

everything is in a grid pattern, except broadway,

but it does what it wants.

philadelphia, denver or chicago do not have such

practical street naming practices, unfortunately.

my room is still an absolute wreck with my luggage

and all, but i'm being productive regardless, so it's ok.

i also would like to inform you that i didn't take any pictures.

at all. the whole entire trip.

i pulled out my camera on the bus trip to new york,

and decided that instead of trying to take pictures

to remember everything about it, to catch the right shot,

to line things up and make sure eyes are open,

i was just going to enjoy every moment of it,

with my mental camera rolling every instant.

it was really, surprisingly, so nice to not worry

about taking the perfect pictures of everything.

added bonus?: i didn't look like a tourist.

especially without my map.

hopefully i'll be able to keep up my traveling escapades,

but with my college student budget, we'll see how it goes.

i'm certainly looking forward to ohio, though,

i hear lola really misses me.