Winging through life: Not a reality check

Saturday, June 02, 2007

Zooming across East Coast

Ma, go read my food post. You would like that better! Rest of the junta, a few pics till I get time to write about all the crazy places I visited in the last one month :

Another Provincetown, this one is the quaint town of Rockport in MA.



Below, don't miss the rainbow colors formed near the Maid of the Mist by the sprays of the Niagara Falls



The biggest and oldest hotel in another quaint but this time Canadian town - "Niagara by the Lake"




Last few weeks have been the craziest ever. I don't think there was a single day in the last two weeks when I was not on the move - either on a bus, a train, a plane or a ferry. The highlights are in pics on top. But as exciting as visiting new places was rediscovering the old - noticing the pretty flowering trees lining the paths I walk on everyday, noticing the chapels in Harvard Square and the bridges in NYC. In case you are interested my itinerary went something like this: Princeton, NJ - NYC - Cambridge - Rockport, MA - NYC - Toronto - Niagara - Kingston -Wolfe Island, Canada. Does NJ deserve a paragraph? I guess Princeton does.

The last few weeks has also been like a tour of schools on the East coast and Canada - from Princeton, to Yale (okay almost Yale), to Harvard, MIT, Univ of Toronto to Queens. I donnno who has the most money or ivy but Princeton definitely has the best buildings. Unlike the MASSIVE structures of harvard and the imposing pillars, Princeton has what I like from architecture, the "old" look and the quaint sculptures peeping out from the most unexpected places. Yaya, they are not a patch on the structures in Oxford Cambridge, UK but they are the best that US can give. MIT, is more diverse than Harvard, with its focus on the future, technology and steel. But not THAT impressive. Toronto... well I won't say I saw much of the Univ, but teh gradens were pretty green! Queens, with the lake and water all around it, it can't really go wrong. It doesn't, in most parts. Some of the buildings are quite plain but some have teh real cool Harry Pottery/Gryffindor look about them. That's it for the school experience. More travel stuff tomorrow.

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