Adrienne was a bachelorette for nearly two weeks as I tramped around the eastern seaboard, dodging blizzards and record-setting snowfall. The College generously sent me to DC for a media relations conference, then to Boston for a science conference. And winter storm Nemo allowed for an unplanned long layover in New York.
The trip was most excellent for three reasons. First, the east coast has some of my favorite cities, three of which I got to spend several days in. Second, I got to re-connect with old friends that I rarely get to see these days - a special treat. And third, I learned some communications tricks and networked with professionals that will only help me accelerate the visibility of the College - which, in the end, was the ultimate goal of this trip.
Now I am home - felt like I was gone a lifetime - and its good to be back. When all is said and done, my home in Seattle with AJ and Black Lightning is exactly where I want to be. Below are a few pictures from the past two weeks' adventures. It was great fun.
DC - walking around a deserted mall made for a spectacular day
DC's new King Memorial - truly outstanding
Remnants of the President's booth for the inaugural parade
Good friends - Javier, Katy, Chris, and Leigh
Moved on from DC to NYC, right on the heels of ginormo storm Nemo. All trains going north out of New York were cancelled - snow everywhere. This was the door to the train - snapped this picture when I arrived at Penn Station.
What's a fella to do when stranded in NYC? Go to the top of the Empire State Building, of course!
Art Deco lobby of the ESB - outstanding.
Wowee - what a view. Freedom Tower going up in the distance. Statue of Liberty looks tiny out on the middle of the right-side waterway (mouth of the Hudson).
A frozen Mav - 20 degrees up top, not including the rippin wind chill.
Midtown and the Chrysler Building - my favorite building in the whole wide world.
Took me all day to get out to Glen Cove on Long Island - all commuter rails were cancelled from Nemo. This is near Aaren and Michelle's lovely little house - Long Island Sound.
The Freeman/Chalfoun family entertaining Mav - trying to navigate the frozen roadways to get back into NYC to go to the Met.
Inside the Met - looking out to Central Park.
Johnny with Carlos and Ashly.
In the Tiffany Glass exhibit - truly spectacular.
Johnny and Warhol Mao.
Aaren and the flourescents.
My old buddy Carlos.
The reason Aaren and Michelle can get the kids to go to an art museum - hot dogs from a street vendor afterwards.
The Guggenheim - ah, FLW.
A beautiful post-museum walk in Central Park.
Park Avenue
Snowball fight!
NYC - the greatest city on planet earth. Bold proclamation, I know...
Another old friend - Boomer the Dog.
Great kids: Wes, Ashly, Ethan, and Carlos
Day trip with April and the boys to Montauk - ice and snow everywhere.
The lighthouse at the end of Long Island.
The snow finally got cleared, the tracks finally unfroze, the trains finally started running again - so it was time to move north to Boston.
Boston hotel room view
Massachusetts State House
This is what I love about Boston - among the high-rises downtown, you find churches, houses, old government buildings...all 200+ years old where some amazing historical event for the US happened
The first non-Anglican church in the US
Where Paul Revere, John Hancock, and Sam Adams are buried, to name a few...
Boston Common, the oldest public park in the US
Newbury Street
The North End - America's oldest "Little Italy"
A horrible picture - but that's the field at Fenway under a few feet of snow. Went to a journalist awards reception.
Classic Boston scene
At a press party on top of Boston's tallest buidling!
