Wednesday in New York

When we travel, our days start a lot slower than at home. It’s much easier to lie back and relax a bit when you’re not confronted with laundry that needs washing, a kitchen in need of cleaning or a lawn that needs mowing. You can lounge around in your PJ’s drinking coffee without guilt because there’s nothing that you HAVE to do.

So it was with us on Wednesday. He has school work, of course, and we both have work issues that never completely go away, but usually we can take care of most of those immediate issues online in a few hours. By 11ish we’re ready to get shaved and showered and head out in search of food.

So it was Wednesday morning. Nothing in particular on the agenda until after lunch, so we just explored a bit.

It’s warming up, so things are melting. It’s hard to say if that’s worse than the snow or not. Those puddles at the curbs are now becoming vast oceans so it’s harder and harder to walk around them, and the streets are clearing up pretty well so the drivers are going faster and getting more aggressive. They don’t seem to cut the pedestrians a lot of slack, apparently because they aren’t in the crosswalks.

Of course, you can’t be in the crosswalks because either you can’t find them under the snow or they’re underwater.