Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Here’s a selection of videos that I took while on the Freedom Trail. I’ll insert them also into their respective posts later too to better associate the pictures with motion video.:) Massachusetts State House (From Part 1) The Old Granary
When someone tells me about Summer, I think about the 46°C heat I experienced in my years in Perth. It was so crazily hot that you could put an egg on a frying pan, hold it out in the sun
After crossing Charlestown Bridge, and continued walking along Chelsea Street past some really swanking looking residences, and for quite a distance until finally arriving at the Charlestown Navy Yard to visit two ships: the USS Constitution, nicknamed “Old Ironsides”, and
Past Paul Revere’s statue is the Old North Church, though the official name of Boston’s oldest surviving religious establishment dating to 1723 is really Christ Episcopal Church. The church is significant for its involvement in the American Revolution. In 1775,
The next segment of the Freedom Trail was a very long walk that took me about an hour to finish. Upon leaving the Old State House, the trail continued along Congress Street. Just further down this road is the current
Right in front of Borders was a small plaza area with status (below). I’ll need to find out what they are, but the two statues seemed to depict a happy family on the left hand side, and another suffering family
Boston is one of the most historically and culturally significant cities in the United States by way of the number of landmark sites where famous events of the American Revolution took place. Many of these sites have been linked together
The home I’m putting up is in Cambridge, a college town that’s dominated by Harvard University, MIT and other college campuses. The home is an about 8 minute walk to the subway station (which itself is 4 stops away from
Ling’s especially interested in the place I’m staying at. It’s a homestay Bed & Breakfast in a three storey house: two guestrooms on the top floor, with the family staying in the lower two. I was picked up by my
While statistics continually show that flying is the safest way to travel, it still remains a mode of transportation where I still can’t say I’m totally at ease with when I’m using it. I can even remember a time when
Posting from Changi Airport.:) It’s sort of ironical that my ‘longest’ short-trip isn’t for pleasure but for work. At 24 days away from home, it would had been oodles of fun if the trip had been to say Europe or
Follow-up on my post a month ago.:) Decisions got finalized late last week, and it was quite a rush yesterday to work out all the travel and accommodation arrangements. A good part of it has been in planning for weeks
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