visit new york city

Laura invited me to join her in August in NYC. Unfortunately it’s in the middle of the week, so I don’t know if I can swing it. I’ll have to look into it as I’d like to go.

I have plans to take a trip through NY, PA, VA, DC, and Niagara, Toronto, Quebec, Montreal. I’ve been to all these places except PA…but I thought it would be nice to see them again as an adult. I remember going to NY when I was around 6 yrs. old or so, but I don’t remember too much. So it’ll be a good trip.

I really want to go to see some states that I have yet to visit…but one thing at a time! I want, I want, I want…

my aunt dropped off a hugely thick folder full of pedigree charts on her (& my mom’s) side of the family. I had some of this on disk, but not all of it, by any means. Many of the people named are familiar to me from my months of scanning old family photos. Now, linking more of them to actual places on the globe, the concept of ancestors seems more real.

There are so many photo sites & tourism sites that show such great views of some of those places that I’m really wanting to visit some, esp the handful of villages in Wales, England, & Denmark that haven’t grown much & have more left from the years my ancestors lived there than most other cities & towns.

The problem is, I haven’t even made the trip over to Seattle that I’ve been telling myself to take for a long, long time. I still have a problem traveling. Illogical panic.

Seattle ought to happen first, and then New York City, before I even think about crossing the friggin’ Atlantic Ocean. (besides, some ancestors came through Castle Garden, some lived in upstate NY, & I have a cousin up there, others lived in CT & MA & PA.

It’s hard to remember what it was like to sign on for months overseas as a student without giving the traveling part a second thought, didn’t know anyone else in the program, didn’t experience any illogical anxiety. At all. What the hell happened?

I will get over this.

Reading about so many 43Ters’ trips & plans for travel boosts my energy in this goal, while simultaneously making me hate all your guts for being able to do all that!! Not really I’m just envious.

Seattle again, then NYC. Yes. It will happen. It will. It will. In my lifetime. Before I die. Before I retire. Before I turn 40. Before I even think about Europe again.

I visited for three days in August 2005. It is such a fantastic, vibrant city…though the taxi drivers are crazy!

There are so many places I want to visit and have fun in and New York City is one of them!

I don’t want to stay in a hotel so I checked out a homestay site. I think that all I need to do is make a reservation and put down a deposit and make travel plans and all that…

I grabbed a spur-of-the-moment opportunity to drive down with some guys to Portland for the NCAA basketball games. Tickets were so scarce, no one I knew could find one, but when the chance came up for a ticket & a ride, I jumped on it without enough time to get nervous & back out.

So, that trip to Portland didn’t panic me at all, makes me want to make another trip, maybe to Seattle or even San Francisco. Another no-panic success would be a much bigger second step.

WOO HOO!!

Yea, I hear it is very dirty, but TV and movies manage to make it look so cool.

Twice with a band I was in, and once for my friends birthday just a few months ago

This one looks easy. My parents will give me the money for the tickets and I have a place to stay with a friend. Still, I haven’t booked the flight yet (I’m going to take care of that this weekend) and I promised my parents I would save the money to spend there. I’m not a big saver so it’s a challenge. The trip will be in a school week so I’ll have to plan ahead so it doesn’t interfere with my video dance short.