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Previously, on DC-NYC Trip Log

Two weeks ago, I headed off to Washington DC to take care of a Russian Legal Thing. The train wound up running very late, but things worked out at the end. Even though I was on the time crunch, I managed to get some nice pictures of the American capital city and headed off on the Northeast Regional train to New York ( Read more... )

Last time on DC-NYC trip log, I took Amtrak's Capitol Limited train to Washington DC to take care of a Russian Legal Thing. While the first night went decently, the next day turned into a pile of delays. But even though I missed my appointment, I managed to make it to the Russian Consulate a little under an hour before closing, and everything ( Read more... )

Teenagers tend to be stereotyped as being too emotional, and there is some truth to that. At that age, emotions are immense in scale and intensely personal. We may laugh at ourselves now, but at the time, everything Mattered, and hearing any adult suggest otherwise only made everything worse.

But in Margaret, the protagonist isn’t concerned about ( Read more... )

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( A look at the New York City's L line and a station full of statues )

These entries are rolling out slower than I anticipated. The semester is winding down, which means lots of lots of work. But, since I am relatively homework-free this weekend, I figure I might as well get a few posts in.

The last three posts chronicled the train ride between Chicago and New York City and my first few hours in the Big Apple. We pick ( Read more... )

The last two entries touched on the first two halves of my journey to New York City. Hopefully, I'll be able to fit the rest of the trip in this entry.

( Lots of waiting and fog on the last leg of the train to New York City )

On the second-to-last week of March, during my Spring Break, I took the Amtrak train to New York City to see my long-time friends Randi and Don. They moved to the Big Apple last summer from Florida, out of all places, and they have been trying to get me to visit ever since. So, when a winter sale yielded relatively cheap Chicago-New York tickets, I ( Read more... )