My Adventures in New York and Boston : Part 3
I woke the next morning showered and promptly made my way back to the bus station to head back to New York. Overall Boston was a blast and a historical city. Way bigger than I expected and they even had a pretty expansive China town.
Made the trip back to New York, freaked some girl out cause I told her I liked her shoes. She sat in silence the whole rest of the trip haha, and then made it back to the great city of New York, New York. Beautiful weather when I arrived. TONS of people out enjoying and just roaming around, it was crazy how many people were everywhere. I don’t understand how that many people can fit in that city and its area but somehow they make it work. Got off the bus and headed over to Williamsburg in Brooklyn to meet up with a friend named Lauren. She toke me to a couple bars and we just talked and caught up about life and then we went and had some amazing pizza that was all organic and fresh New York styled pizza. No offense Chicago but I think I like New York pizza better still. After that we went on the Staten Island Ferry and had some beers on it as we watch the city fade in the distance and looked at The Statue of Liberty in all of it glory. What a site to see light up at night. IT was amazing to see and made me proud of everything this country has done. Thanks France you rule! After that we went our separate ways and I went back and slept at Graeme’s again!
The Next morning I had decided it would be my roaming day and my small business meeting day as well. I immediately got up early and headed to the Rockefeller Center. I have been to the top on The Empire State building before so I wanted to see the city from a different perspective and different building. Plus working at an NBC affiliated News station had me interested to see the NBC head quarters. Made it to the top of this amazing building and once you get to the top you can go up to the very very tip top of the building. SO literally you are standing on the top of a tall skyscraper almost as tall as The Empire State Building. It was very empowering. Toke lots of pictures that you can see above. It is always nice to stand at the highest point of a big city and just look at the marvels of mankind. It is unbelievable to me still that humans can build some amazing things.
After that I went and meet up with some design people that I have been working with on some website stuff and then headed to central park for a minute and sat on a rock. Also a must do thing in New York when your there. THERE WERE SO MANY people out that day because of how nice it was, so naturally I toke some panos while enjoying this view. I kind of mediated in a weird sense while sitting there. Awesome park and it is crazy how big it is and just smack in the middle of this huge city.
After that I went and meet up with an old friend I haven’t seen in about 2 years. Alyssa! It was amazing to see her and catch up on life. She is still a very powerful person and I admire her for everything she is doing. Keep up the great work in life Alyssa, I know you will continue to do amazing things. See you when our paths cross again. After beers and Union Square with her I went and met back up with Lauren and had a margarita in East Village Park. Met up with Graeme and Shawna and headed to China town in Manhattan and had some really good Chinese. Enjoyed the food and company!
Lauren had bought two tickets to a show in Williamsburg and invited me along to see a band play called “The Bronx” we were running late and caught a cab and seriously this was one of the best parts of my trip! We get in the cab and the cabbie drives SUPER fast to get us from Manhattan to Williamsburg across the Brooklyn Bridge. A car ride across that bridge and seeing the city in all its glory at night was amazing. I truly felt like I was experiencing everyday life stuff in New York. It was a nice perspective to experience. We got there and rushed into the venue. When we walked in there was a mariachi band playing. I was way confused about this but later was told it was “The Bronx’s” side project. This punk band from LA had decided to make a mariachi-influenced album. IT WAS AWESOME!! Amazing musicians and amazing music. I seriously enjoyed the crap out of it! You should check out this project by them! It is called “Mariachi El Bronx” Just click the name to be redirected. Maybe it is the fact that my grandpa was 100% Dominican Republic or something, but I really am obsessed with this album that the released. After that we went to some local little places and headed back to Graeme’s and slept the rest of the night away!
I woke the next morning and had to head straight back to JFK to catch my flight. Toke like 4 trains and after lots of traveling and anxiety to get to the airport I made it! Rushed to get on the plane, spent $15 on a sandwich and water at the airport! Then got on the flight and headed back to Chicago. Flew into Chicago and it was a beautiful day here and it was amazing to fly over Lake Michigan and see the city on the coast from thousands of feet in the air! Landed and head back to my place.
Overall my trip was an amazing thing and experience all together. I couldn’t of asked for anything more from it. It was very self-meditating and rewarding in so many ways. I highly suggest to everyone to do something like this at one point in his or her lives. I feel like I really learned a bunch about my comfort levels and myself. I used to struggle with anxiety a whole bunch but I swear if you put yourself in situations and force your self to over come these struggles then you will defeat it and become something new!
I think the most important thing I learned from my trip was that; people need to take more chances. Trust me I understand how scary these things can be, especially coming from me. I am a person who gets shit on constantly so I probably should be the last person to take chances like this but life would be soooo boring with out. I would rather take chances and learn things the hard way then play the safe card my whole life and not experience the great things life has to offer. All the big names in the world toke chances, lots of them had no idea what they were doing half the time but these challenges and risky things led them to where they are today! Enjoy life, because when your laying on your death bed all that will matter is what you experienced and got out of the gift of life that we have been given.
“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” – Steve Jobs
