Subject:   [adventure!] JFK to Heathrow

Date:   11/20/2003 9:38:59 AM

 

 

Hello and welcome to the adventure email list! You are receiving this

message (and possibly more to come) for one of two reasons: 1) you responded

to my earlier email and asked to be put on the list; or 2) I put you on the

list because I felt like it. Go ahead and call me a spammer! I can't hear

you because ...

 

The adventure has begun! I'm sitting in a hostel in Camden in the North of

London, jet-lagged and wondering what kind of trouble I can get up to in

London on a ... what is it, Thursday morning? ... afternoon? It's light out.

So far the only thing I've figured out is that whatever I choose to do,

it's going to be expensive.

 

I got into London a few hours ago from New York, where I got to spend a

couple of days with Harlan, a gracious host who not only slagged around

Manhattan with me all day yesterday, but also gave me a far more eloquent

history lesson than a person who's only been living there for a couple of

months should be able to. I'm pretty sure he was making most of it up, but

I was so jet-lagged from my Detroit-LaGuardia flight that I couldn't tell.

Highlights of the New York section of the trip involved a lousy Indian

restaurant with WAY beyond the legal number of chilli pepper lights allowed

in a tiny restaurant, a completely overwhelming walk through Times Square, a

sadder-than-expected stop at the former world trade centre site, and a whole

bunch of people with funny New Yorker accents (if you can imagine).

 

Well, I'm off to find either trouble or a place to nap. Or ...

 

.... fish and chips!

 

jay

 

Oh, and you can imagine how excited I was to discover that I am currently

sharing London with a certain cowboy from Texas (someone you may have heard

me grumbls about before). Seems the English don't much like him either.

Maybe I'll go see the crowds of protesters.

 

More emails to come, hopefully from a traveller who is more awake and aware.