All over (and more Boston tourism)

All good things come to an end. I’m currently sitting in LA airport, and on to my second glass of red wine! Turns out the $12 house red is probably nicer that then $19 Cab Sav! Anyway, all good things must come to an end, and this trip is almost over. All I’ve got left is a couple of hours in an airport, a 15 hour flight, a connecting flight I’ll probably miss and then it’s back to reality. At least its uni holidays.

The trip has been great, though I could have done without the spanner that COVID through into the mix. I still love travel, if anything this trip has made me want to do more. God willing, next year I might be able to do IC again. I think it will be a shorter trip, but I’ll probably throw a bit of tourism in there if I can – I hear Florida is lovely in June.

So more tourism happened – this is the Wednesday before I leave Boston. I had four tasks I wanted to achieve Wednesday morning and 3 were successful – not a bad hit rate. Printing my exit row confirmation for my flight home at the library – unsuccessful. Stamps for postcards was a success, even if I did have to say Australia 17 times. Somewhat ironic really, they’ve had very little trouble with my Australian accent the whole trip, but apparently its a problem when I say Australia! Replaced one drink with another, but still successfully brought a drink. I also successfully withdrew money from an ATM although even though it was an alliance ATM it did charge me a $6 terminal fee!?! Is that a success?

Once I got back I headed off the Harvard Square for my Harvard Tour. It was definitely worth the $20. Our tour guide Michelle was great. She has just graduated, and she really knew her stuff. Lots of factual information as well as fun, amusing stories. I had a great time and it made me want to do more uni tours in the US if I get the change. (Yale and Stanford are definitely on my list).

After this I had a dilemma, I really wanted to try Crumbl cookies, but I couldn’t justify a 2 hour round trip. (Edit: ARGHHHH – apprenly LAX internet times out after a set period and I just lost the rest of this blog post. Type t retype *rage* ☹️) Maybe next time when I have a car and COVID doesn’t rear its ugly head. I went to the Harvard Museum/Art Gallery instead, but I wasn’t really in the mood and it didn’t blow me away. I’m not sure it was worth the entry fee.

So that’s the end of Boston tourism. I headed home and ordered Uber Eats. Then it was time to pack as much as I could and get organised – I had a 5.15 wakeup time in the morning. There are pictures of Harvard too, but I’m still on my iPad. I think I’ll have to have a picture post to follow.