[travel.NYC]

[wispfox]

NYC no longer scares me.

6 hours in a bus is annoying. When two and a half of those are in mostly not moving traffic, the air conditioner has died not long after the traffic started being nasty, and the only openable thing while driving is the emergency exit in the roof of the bus, the ride gets very unpleasant, very quickly. The driver said that was one of his worst trips, and he's been doing it for 12 years.

Hey, if my first bus ride to NYC is that bad, it can only get better, right?

There is no law against being topless in NYC. Yes, I _did_ immediately make use of this knowledge when it was presented to me! This was precisely the kind of hot, muggy weather that always makes me wish I _could_ take off my shirt (stupid gender-specific laws!). Alas, after leaving Central Park, it seemed wiser to reshirt myself (subways have _entirely_ too much likelihood of people trying to cop a feel, for example). And, unfortunately, the repeatedly threatened thunderstorm never materialized. I wanted downpour! And lightning! (and to have the dried sweat washed off myself!) And I _love_ warm rainstorms...

Much silliness. Insufficient sleep (being awakened by light, and all). Much walking. I seem to do an awful lot of walking when visiting rosefox andsinboy. Which is a good thing, since I normally don't get enough exercise! My legs and feet tend to thank me, other than the fact that my sandals caused blisters on the tops of my feet (which were not worse because regyt demonstrated her state of preparedness by having bandaids).

Lots of people, but nothing like any of my previous visits. I approve of the general ability of rosefox, regyt, sinboy, kythryne, and elissaann to find places that I liked and was (mostly) not scared by. Also, regyt, sinboy, and kythryne are good at coping with an extremely overwhelmed, dazed, and exhausted post-bus ride wispfox. I am impressed. Mostly, I was tired, hot, starving, and completely useless. So there was much making of decisions by _other_ people.

Sleepy. Much silly. Much touch and cuddling. Is good. Must come back.

Comments

[regyt.livejournal.com]

It was so good to have you around! Yes, definitely come back. We can get our own waterguns to take to the park for topless waterfights or something.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Topless watergun fight in the park! THAT. MUST. HAPPEN!

*glee*

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

...

Cruel! Cruel!

[regyt.livejournal.com]

So fly over and join in. ;P

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

Perhaps in a few years I'll feel I have sufficient resources and power to consider heading over for a party or other specific event. 8->

(Right now I'm limited to short domestic hops - I *have* gotten on a plane, flown to Sydney, gone to a meeting, delivered a one hour presentation, turned around and gone home again, which everyone was oddly aghast at...)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Not cruel! It _is_ possible to plan such things for when you are here, presuming you are here during a time of year that it is warm enough (for my definition of such). :)

('course, if we're both in NYC at the same time, there might be insufficient crash space! Hmm. Perhaps if regyt has her own place...)