My performance (I should say lack thereof) has, I gather, been more than disappointing. I still haven't figured out whether its the familiarity of the places I've been visiting (New York) or spending so much time with people I knew from years gone by that has made me a less efficient blogger. What a gross word by the way, I can't believe I just used it to describe myself. Ew.
As mentioned above, New York was the closest thing to a deja-vu encountered so far. Luckily, it was around the fourth of July weekend so I had time to enjoy the company of friends and also experience the city when it's (almost) empty. Quite scary, Gotham City-like actually. It turned out to be the longest stop on my trip and was easily filled with park picnics, museum visits, shopping, going out and the usual wandering - which is really the way to go when visiting anywhere I have concluded. In addition it's probably also why certain places (read Texas and LA) have struck me as slightly alienating. It makes it insanely tough to be a tourist.
Und die Moral von der Geschicht: Get a car, or even better, Get a friend with a car!
New York is addicting but I went cold turkey and hopped on a bus to Boston and found yet another place I could live in (quite easily). It's young, bustling, easy to navigate and full of people I already know :)
A roadtrip to Cape Cod also provided ample photo opportunities of perfectly painted and maintainted american houses (straight out of a Land's End catalogue, with flag of course!), lots of green scenery, stunning lakes and a coastline that doesn't disappoint. The water temperature was paralyzing, something barely above freezing I would gu-estimate. Even a minute long photo session numbed our lower extremeties instantly.
My hiatus in NYC got me slightly out of routine, and having to leave Boston after only five days was quite the shock to my system, not to mention my backpack, for which I have started to feel sympathy for.
So, I don't know if you got the memo, but apparently the sky is always lit up in Iceland. As I was landing at midnight, the sun was setting in sync with the descent of our plane. And although it disappeared from sight, the sun kept the 'night' sky a given shade of blue throughout the following hours, only to rise again 03:51 (according to BBCweather.com).
It's only been a few hours but I've had quite the scenic tour already; visiting the meeting (or i suppose breaking) point of the European and American tectonic plates (the 'geological border between Europe and America'), observing a congregation of seagulls on a cliff looking out to the ocean, wandering around hot springs smelling of eggs found at sporadic intervals throughout the countryside and taking in a landscape that was so vivid it prompted the Polish hitchhikers we picked up to take a picture roughly every 4 seconds from the car. I can't even imagine how the Japanese (or other Asians for that matter) document this country!
On that note... I should post pictures myself some(other)time...
Kaja
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