Saturday 31 March - Boston to NY

The moveout...

Spent over an hour in the local post office trying to ship my unneeded stuff back home. In the end, 1 large, clearly overweight box was spread out into 3 smaller ones. The result is that (hopefully) there´ll be 4 boxes arriving at Mum & Dad´s place within the next 6 weeks - 1 smaller one (a hard drive that contains the very valuable collection of tunes, which is probably the biggest at PP and needs to be copied onto my laptop when I get back to slow it down to more familiar speeds), which should be there in a fortnight or so, and 3 medium size ones full of clothes which might arrive as late as mid May. The 4 boxed cost me $US 170.

Said the goodbyes to Becky, Pete, Andrew & Jess, which had become our crew in the last 3 months (although Jess was only a late addition, in the last 2 weeks). Becky we´ll be catching up with in London with Jon later in April; Pete we´ll see in June when he comes down to see his beloved Kangaroos try to win their first game for the year; Andrew, Jess and Alice might be a little farther down the track.

As well as myself & Becky moving out, Jess Auriemma had been on secondment for the last 2 weeks, setting up a temporary abode in Becky´s place. She certainly livened the Oakwood apartments up - managing to break her arm in the short time. They could do a reality show purely on her life - much like Luke Carey, something unusual seems to happen to her every day.

Caught a 2:30 pm bus to NYC, to catch up with Libe and to start our journey from there. It was good to arrive in NYC during daylight hours - although I´d seen it a number of times, I wasn´t tired of seeing the Manhataan skyline just yet. I doubt anyone could get tired really.

The weather in this part of the country has really changed in the last week. Spring has certainly arrived. The boys from VCC were actually able to play golf today; their excitement was akin to having shared a container full of viagra.

Stayed at Amanda & Vincent´s house in the upper west side. Amanda is Libe´s cousin, an employee of Unicef, and is permanently based in NYC.