So, I leave town for a few days, and when I come back…well, I barely recognize the place. Man, just when I was thinking that maybe it was time to change things up a bit, James Bow seems to have read my mind.
I have no idea what all James has been up to in my absence, but I must say that I’m impressed. I’ll look around the place over the next couple of days, but I’m pretty well fried right now. After a 4 1/2 hour flight, and the culture shock of going from Manhattan to the Texas Gulf Coast, I’m more than a little disoriented.
We did have one Hell of a good time, though. Our hotel was right off Times Square, so we were able to see and do an awful lot. Over the past five days, She Who Endures My Myriad Eccentricities and I:
- went to the Museum of Modern Art
- ate at the ESPN Zone in Times Square
- went to the Improv
- took the Staten Island Ferry
- got tickets to the “Late Show With David Letterman”
- went to Ground Zero
- walked across the Brooklyn Bridge
- went to the top of the Empire State Building (which was DAMN cold….)
- saw “Stomp” in the East Village
- went to a Rangers game
- took a 3-hour boat tour all the way around Manhattan Island
- took a tour of Central Park
- saw “Butley”- Nathan Lane’s new Broadway show
- went shopping on Canal Street (where She Who Endures My Myriad Eccentricities managed to buy some illegal knock-off purses without getting us robbed and killed)
- spent a whole lot of time in Times Square
- ate at the Afghan Kebab House (which I would HIGHLY recommend)
- more than anything else, we basically fell in love with New York
Over the next few days and weeks, I’ll be sharing some of my pictures and perhaps even some of my stories. Some of you who live in New York or spend a lot of time there may have a different view of the city, but we fell in love with New York. I’m not a city person, and I never thought I’d be saying this about any city, but New York is a phenomenal place, and I could easily see myself living there…if only we could afford it.
It’s nice to be home, but after getting used to the steel and glass canyons of Manhattan, readjusting to the wide opens spaces of Texas is going to take a day or two.
So, did anything interesting happen while we were gone??