New York’s a pretty busy place. First stop yesterday was to snap some pics of the inside of Grand Central Station, a beautiful building by anyone’s standards.

Busy! This looks like some sort of ad.

A visit to Ground Zero is a sobering experience. Building work has started on the memorial gardens and museum, and the new [...]

After a brief two-day whirl round Boston, yesterday it was time to move on to New York. We had booked train tickets for the four-hour trip south and west along the coast.

I make no apologies for the blurriness of the pictures taken from the moving train through dirty windows – it all adds to the [...]

The weather is now refreshingly British here: cold and windy. When it’s not raining, the air has the feel of a ski resort, biting cold and bracing. It makes you really appreciate being inside! We never get weather like that back in Pasadena, where you only relish being inside when it’s boiling hot outside…
This is [...]

We arrived in Boston yesterday, and met my parents who had already spent a few busy days driving around exploring the New England area. The views from the plane, as we turned to land, were beautiful:

Our room is on the 32nd floor of the Westin in Copley Square, well-placed for walking around the city, and [...]

We’ve just got back from seeing U2 at the Rose Bowl, a pretty amazing concert. Started as all good concerts should, with a picnic and beer, out of the back of Jon and Jessie’s new Chevy Tahoe:

With a good view of the venue – not too far to walk:

U2 were supported by the Black Eyed [...]