Once again it has been a while since I last posted here. Since my
last post, I have been lucky enough to travel to the United States.
In mid-September, my eldest daughter visited to say that she had been
selected to travel to the USA to attend a conference in St. Louis,
Missouri. She had arranged to leave Australia 5 days early so she
could visit New York with a friend. She had booked accommodation and
had just found out her friend had pulled out. I made a comment that
I've always wanted to go to New York, and my daughter said why don't I
come? I said don't be silly and left it at that.
After my daughter left, my wife said why don't you go with her? I
replied that I'm not sure it would fit in with my leave dates - so I
checked. The day my daughter was scheduled to leave was just before my
leave started. I was able to make some minor adjustments to my leave
dates and I was able to go with her.
We left Australia on 19 October 2018 and flew via LA to New York.
It's a very long way. We spent 4 days together in New York before my
daughter left to attend her conference. I stayed a couple more days
in New York before taking the train to Boston. I had 4 days there
before renting a car and driving to Washington DC via Poughkeepsie NY and
Lancaster PA over 3 days. Washington took up the next 4 days then I
travelled back to New York on the train for another 3 days.
I kept a blog at
https://bradmac.id.au/blog for full details.
I really enjoyed my trip to USA. I have not been to the east coast
before and I found the people to be friendly, polite, helpful and
interested to hear about Australia.
I will be back some time.
---
[email protected]
2018-11-29
