Boston

The year is 2016 and work proved to be a bit stressful, so it was time to plan a proper vacation. Having just gotten my driving license(I didn’t need one before), I could surely use the practice and decided to have it in a place built for cars: The US of A.

So I booked a flight to Boston, because I thought New York might have been a bit hectic for driving(more on that later) and once I landed, I headed straight to the HI Hostel to sleep off my jetlag before going into traffic.

With me being 6'4, flying usually isn’t very comfortable, so I spent the first day in Boston with just a small walk and grabbing a bite to eat, a lock for the dormitory locker and start what was planned to be a road trip following MASH characters, starting in Boston with Trapper John McIntryre and Charles Emerson Winchester III.

I’m not going to write a post for every day of the trip, just a few of the more memorable ones.. So let’s circle back to the “driving in New York” thing: I was right not to start my trip driving out of New York City, because on my way back to return the car in Boston, I got to drive through a remote bit of NYC during the evening rush hour and got to experience the length of the New York second a couple of times. Even with the A/C in the car on arctic blast, you could wring out my shirt after I got out of it. On the plus side: The rental company didn’t charge me for the bridge toll I missed, because I wasn’t aware of it and had no cash on hand, so they probably just scanned my number plates and billed the company. 🙂