We'd planned to try and get tickets for the Red Sox v Yankees game but it was pretty much a no goer. Tickets were sold out weeks ago and the touts would have been extortionate. Ended up just having dinner in a good irish bar and watching the game there. Oh aye, they only accept US driving licenses or passports as ID in some boston bars which ment me and iain had to go back to the apartment to pick ours up - Mince. Stu was pretty gone by the time we got back, he'd managed to attract the attention of a couple from Florida so at least he wasn't sitting bored!
Got a few hours to kill atm then we're catching a flight over to chicago where we've had to bite the bullet and get a good hotel for 5 nights. Couldn't find anywhere cheap that was either close to the centre of town or even near a subway stop, ahwell!
Our time in Boston has been spent mostly trying to source a car then when that fell through trying to work our budget to find an affordable way to continue the trip. From what I've seen i quite like it and I think that goes for the guys too. Theres a heavy Irish influence (to be expected) and loads of irish bars dotted around the place so its all good. Trying times but we can relax for a few weeks till we get to Kansas. From there we're going to have to see about hiring a car for the west coast.
Heres some pictures from our time in boston. I've not had time to figure out blogspots strange way of adding pictures to blogs without messing up the picture order. Anyway here they are, some good ones of a lady bird that hitched a ride back from lowell (where we tried to buy the car)to boston with us and some of iains brontosaurus ribs.....
Centre of Operations on the Train from NYC - Boston
Street the hostel was on
Lady Bird :D
Boy from N. IReland who'd been living in Boston for 10 years. It was he who uttered the immortal line "Aye, this used to be a good place to get a punch in the mouth"
Iains Brontosaurus Ribs!
A well met challange.Iain has some more pictures of the harbour, town centre and the ship we were on but I haven't had a chance to nick them from him. Will hopefully do that when we get to chicago this evening.
1 comment:
Your problem is that you're not thinking like an American yet. You've been there for almost a fortnight now - it's time to start thinking like an American.
First of all you need to find a small, run-down car dealership, that has very little man-power, but that has a load of cars and other resources you could profit from. Once you've found said dealership, just walk in one day and take over. Slaughter anyone that resists you invading their car dealership.
Also, start rounding up anyone who looks like a car dealer, or who has ever looked at Auto Trader online, and hold them in a custom built jail where they can be imprisoned, tortured and photographed for an unlimited amount of time.
Come on Jones! You're never going to make it across America if you don't start thinking like an American!
Although remember to stop just short of losing your intelligence and becoming obese.
Jay
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