July 2005

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Rachel’s Final Travel Blog

I’ve got to get this blog finished so I’m going to stop going into so much detail and outline the rest of my trip.
Thursday: My mom came to NYC so that she could take me to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It has been in the process of renovation for several years and recently moved [...]

the Tour is over

Hey all,
Just thought I’d blog on the Tour de France. I love it! And am sad it is over for the year.
I’m so not a sports player or watcher, but the Tour’s got me hooked! I used to love the Olympics – that was the only sports I ever watched and I watched everything they [...]

Rachel’s New York blog # 8

photos: poorer NY, uptown a block or so over from Riverside Drive; wealthier NY, Broadway around 115th street or thereabouts
Wednesday in New York… This was my Coney Island day, which I ended up doing on my own. Solita had an interview (not that her interviewee showed up or anything…) in the afternoon so couldn’t come. [...]

Leaving NY

Hi all,
I’m spending my last day upstate tomorrow – meeting Linda, editor of Alfred Hitchock’s Mystery Magazine, in Manchester, VT tomorrow and then bussing it to NYC. I will visit with Albert, Lucia’s cousin and an old high-school acquaintance, stay with my cousins and then fly home for a long, long, long time on Wed, [...]

Rachel’s New York blog #7

Photos: the view across the resevoir in Central Park and a shot of Broadway, somewhere around 110/115th St.
Well, I still don’t remember what happened on Monday. So, I’ll just move on to Tuesday. On Tuesday, Solita and I went to the Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art). We may also have gone to breakfast, or [...]

Rachel’s New York blog #6

Well, you haven’t heard from me in a week because Solita’s computer wouldn’t start up and the techie didn’t know how to fix it. Then I was in Pittsburgh visiting my aunt. She doesn’t own a computer. Finally I am at my parents’ house in upstate New York, with a slow computer and slow Internet. [...]

brekky with ita

I don’t usually get up this early for ANYONE, but this morning I was up before the neighbour’s rooster (who has a rooster in the suburbs???) so I could attend one of those business networking breakfast events – because the guest speaker was Ita Buttrose, and I figured that a woman with all that experience [...]