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Train rides : Netherlands + Belgium

on September 29, 2009

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Manhattan to Amsterdam September 24, 2013

Because Obama is at the UN all week, the Upper East side is gridlocked. 1st avenue is CLOSED along with the FDR drive and all cross town streets from 42nd to 50th. Sidewalks are more packed than seems possible. Pulling my suitcase was a dodgeball game! Everyone driving a car is angry and leans on their horn to let you know it. It was mayhem on the streets. Private cars ought to be forbidden in downtown and mid-town Manhattan or charged a fee to drive through these areas like they do in Singapore. I left E. 74th street @ 1:30pm thinking it would take me 3 or 4 hours to get to the airport. I wound up waiting over 4 hours at JFK - which was not so bad. The new Delta terminal is airy and light and there is a Peet's coffee, but no yoga room as there is at SFO. I was the only stand-by for the one un-sold seat on the flight to Amsterdam. We arrived 15 minutes early but there was no open gate for us to debark so we sat on the tarmac and waited half an hour. Getting out of Schipol ...

labor day weekend

great spot on the river, beautiful garden and lawns, enjoyed canoe-ing, read Eat, Pray, Love, had good conversations with Sam - 20 yr old art student and Ryan, who came by for a visit. Contention re: fair share of costs made me uncomfortable and I am happy to be home!

18 October Full Moon ~

watching the full moon rise over the city - remembering full moon nights at the ranch rudy gleefully howling on the deck in the moonlight naming each dog from neighboring ranches as they added their voices to the concert she would cackle and aaoooo as their howls echoed up and down the valley - aaaahooooo - full moon - magic time.

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