I’m back from my whirlwind tour of the East Coast. I left a day after my last final for the summer semester, and just returned, a few days before the next semester starts. A better use of the inter-semester gap I have never seen before.
I’ve chronicled my trip in excruciating detail in the pics that appear here. But for a brief day to day itinerary, read on.
Aug 15: Arrived in Toronto at 11 pm, so not much I could do, except sleep at 4 because of the time difference
Aug 16: Checked out Little Italy, Yonge St and went shopping and all that fun stuff
Aug 17: Checked out downtown Toronto and College St
Aug 18: Went out and got drunk with some friends of a friend
Aug 19: Recovered from the alcohol binge and ate lots of Lebanese food
Aug 20: Went to the CN Tower, Kensington Market, Chinatown
Aug 21: Left for New York, landed in New York in the late afternoon
Aug 22: Walked around Ground Zero, Wall St, Chinatown, City Square, Brooklyn Bridge
Aug 23: Walked around Central Park, East Village, the United Nations, Grand Central and took the ferry to see the Statue of Liberty
Aug 24: Daytrip to Washington DC: saw the White House, Capitol Hill, Vietnam Veterans memorial, WW2 memorial, Lincoln memorial
Aug 25: Arrived in Montreal, check into my hostel right downtown and walked around St Catherine’s and St Laurent, checked out Old Montreal, ate some bagels, made friends with the German guy, Florian in my hostel room. Got pretty drunk that night as we tried as many Montreal bars as we could in one night
Aug 26: Left for Toronto after a huge Montreal breakfast and lunch
Aug 27: Rested
Aug 28: Lazed
Aug 29: Saw Niagara Falls
Aug 30: Came home
So all in all, there were a lot of days when I had breakfast in one city and lunch in another, or lunch in one city and dinner in another. Also, in one 24 hour timespan, I rode the metro subways in three different metropolises, it was great. I apologize if some of the pictures are blurry, but it’s because a lot of them were taken from buses or planes. Additionally, in New York, hardly anyone stands still, and everyone hates a tourist, so I had to hurry along.
I did make a few friends in every city I visited, while the warm milk of human kindness flowed incessantly. But it’s all over now and all I have are a million clear photographs and a few blurry ones to remember it all by.
Leave a comment if any of the pics inspire you to.