NYC, Boston and upstate NY: 7-12 Nov, 2007

A lot of Zoe's friends are based in New York City. These friends as well as the famous Christmas decorations drew us to NYC for a couple of days. It was great to catch up with Zoe's friends and get a taste of what it would be like to live in what seems to be the center of the world at this point in time.

It was a stressful mission, navigating the New York highways and aggressive traffic. Even more stressful when we left and realised our gas/petrol tank was close to empty and we were stuck on the complicated highway system.


Craig and Zoe in front of the massive Rockefeller Christmas Tree


From NYC we drove up to Boston to visit Jocelyn, our good friend from Melbourne, who is now working at Harvard. She is the tutor at one of the undergraduate dormitories. Her dorm is where the majority of the Harvard football and swim team is. So we got to experience life as a Harvard student and the wild Harvard jock parties.

The weather was perfect for our lovely hike around to Waldon Pond. So still.



After Jocelyn's tour of Harvard, we left her with her workmate Guenther to solve the world's health problems with econometrics, while we headed to upstate New York to visit our friends from Japan: Greg , Heejung and their son Kaelem. Being the naturalists that they are, they took us on a hike around their local pond soon after we after arrived, even though it was dark. Then another hike through State Forest the next day before we drove back to Pennsylvania.