Quest into the north-east USA

[Drakecula]

Afterwards, I wanted to go visit the Athenaeum, an old public library. Unfortunately it wasn't open! If I had known I would have gone earlier, blast.

Ah well, I continued my wandering walk down more of Benefit St (the half I didn't do the first day) and enjoyed the old houses.

At the end of the street I popped into Trader Joe's to get some brekkie for tomorrow's train ride, then wandered back along the river where I found a Sunday market. Couldn't resist a blind date with a book! (See the what you've been reading thread)

By this stage I was quite hot (30ish today) so headed back to the hotel to cool down and go see how pack up was going in the expo hall. We're off to dinner tonight with everyone. One of the others is off to NYC tomorrow too, so we'll likely meet up with him there at some point.

 

[Drakecula]

Also, I'm no bird expert, but I saw this guy and figured he must be lost...

 

[Drakecula]

We're staying at Library Hotel by Library Hotel Collection while in New York, a bucket list hotel for me. There's ten floors of rooms, each floor a section of the Dewey decimal system. We're in 700.003, Performing Arts. Which is most appropriate as we're cramming in as much Broadway as we can! The room has several shelves of books, all relevant to the subject.

There's also a rooftop bar, and a 24/7 reading room with complimentary snacks and drinks, and lots of books to read.

 

[VPS]

We're staying at Library Hotel by Library Hotel Collection while in New York, a bucket list hotel for me. There's ten floors of rooms, each floor a section of the Dewey decimal system. We're in 700.003, Performing Arts. Which is most appropriate as we're cramming in as much Broadway as we can! The room has several shelves of books, all relevant to the subject.

There's also a rooftop bar, and a 24/7 reading room with complimentary snacks and drinks, and lots of books to read.

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Ok officially jealous of you staying in this hotel

 

[Aeryn]

As cool as the concept of the Library hotel is it would be a hard no from me due to having a shower/tub combination.

 

[Drakecula]

I'm having a bit of trouble with wifi here, it'll load 75% of a thing then reset which is a pain. Rest assured there's been lots of NYC exploring. It's hot and sweaty here. Do not recommend visiting in summer if you can avoid it.

But despite that the city is humming and I'm excited to be here.

Might have to do a proper recap when I get home.

 

[Seat0B]

I can recall very well the first time we visited NYC in July a long long time ago whilst on an RAAF posting to the USA. People warned us it would be hot and human. I shrugged it off - I’m Australian, how hot can it really be? Yep it was hot hot hot.

Much nicer when we visited in December and February.