12 hour trip to Philadelphia

Took a quick trip down to Philadelphia to visit with my father who was there for a medical conference. Went straight after work to Penn station (I cant help but think about how ugly that building and the whole experience of it is), buying a ticket for the $56 regional train only to realize it was an hour and a half late. I ran to the customer service center for Amtrak to try to upgrade my ticket to the $110 Accela train, seeing how waiting that amount of time for the regional train would render my whole trip useless.

Lucky for me, Amtrak took mercy on us, buying the regional train ticket holders seats on the super fast train (and hence selling out the train) and charging us no upgrade fees. So I got to Philly exactly an hour later, with the wonderful experience of traveling south at sunset. The train itself was full of business people ( I mean... c'mon.... who else can afford $110 for a one way one hour train ticket?!). I think I lucked out though as far as business types go to share my booth with 2 gay shoe salesmen and getting to easedrop on their dating gossip.

The next day, with time not an issue, I decided to take the china town bus back to New York. 2 hours and $12 later, I was back at Penn Station. The only thing is.... IT SNOWED THE ENTIRE TRIP.

season of doppler radar obsession

I have wack tan lines from this weekends sun, the first burn of the year. oops.

But today was a different experience