Cherry Saturday 3-16-13
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How did it get to be Saturday again so fast? Jeez.
Jennifer Crusie is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author of twenty novels, one book of literary criticism, miscellaneous articles, essays, novellas, and short stories, and the editor of three essay anthologies. She lives in a cottage in New Jersey surrounded by deer, bears, foxes, and dachshunds, where she often stares at the ceiling and counts her blessings.
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41 Comments to 'Cherry Saturday 3-16-13'
On March 16, 2013 at 10:49 am Sue said...
I just sspent a little time with my brother in NYC. It’s a great city and I love visiting it, but it makes me realize I’m a small city gal.
I love the Metropolitan Museum and MOMA, and this year we even went to the Museum of Sex (which had a fabulous exhibit on the sex lives of animals. Hands up who knew a cobra has a pronged penis, so it can mate from the left or right?)
I love to travel, but I love coming home.
Which do you like best? Is there a favourite place you’ve been to?
On March 16, 2013 at 5:19 pm corrina said...
I love NYC. My twins were so thrilled when we got off the Metro North train and walked into Grand Central Station last October. They loved it so much they want to go back for their birthday in June. No museums, though, I think they’re fixated on Times Square and the M&M store and then the Nintendo store.
On March 16, 2013 at 7:29 pm PG said...
I haven’t been to MoSex since it opened over a decade ago. I am always a very slow museum goer, I like to stop and read every single plaque, which my friends found particularly funny at this museum. I think what surprised me the most — which, considering the internet and probably every technology other than the Gutenberg Bible, shouldn’t have — was that there was silent-movie porn. Like, with the dialogue printed in white letters on black screens.
On March 16, 2013 at 8:05 pm Becke Martin Davis said...
I missed the Museum of Sex last time I went to MOMA, but there was an exhibit going on where naked people were displayed on walls, standing in doorways, sitting on benches – strange and VERY uncomfortable! But artistic, I suppose…
On March 16, 2013 at 10:50 am Sue said...
Sorry for the typos. Trying to type anything important on the ipad is always a mistake.
On March 16, 2013 at 11:11 am Gin said...
Most of my traveling is done through books. Just started the latest in CS Harris’s Sebastian St. Cyr series, which takes me to Regency London.
On March 16, 2013 at 12:23 pm Susan D (aka Cherry Beach) said...
Well, I’m game to jump in with a travel answer. I love love love Scotland and Florence. I kinda like NYC too. Oh, and Havana. Oh wait, also Victoria BC, and Tofino. And our cottage up near Haliburton, Ontario.
Okay okay. I’m a travel slut. I’ll sleep anywhere.
On March 16, 2013 at 5:20 pm corrina said...
Me too! I’m currently justabout ready to book a trip to Seattle (my first time) to go to Geek Girl Con in October. I would rather travel than fix my house. ::looks around:: That may explain a few things about my housekeeping…
On March 16, 2013 at 8:07 pm Becke Martin Davis said...
Banff is gorgeous – one of my all-time favorite places to visit. The Glacial Icefields are breathtaking, too!
On March 16, 2013 at 1:24 pm Mary Stella said...
I love going to new places, preferably islands or seaside and beach areas. I loved visiting the Hawaiian islands last month and Alaska a couple of years ago. I go to Cape Cod every summer. I’m also spoiled in that I live in the Florida Keys where many other people merely vacation.
Now I’m planning a trip to Ireland and Scotland
On March 16, 2013 at 8:13 pm Kate George said...
Oh, Ireland and Scotland are my favorites, Mary Stella!
On March 17, 2013 at 8:51 pm Nan said...
Ireland is gorgeous, Mary Stella! You’ll love it! And Paris…always, Paris!
On March 16, 2013 at 2:05 pm Gin said...
Hey — maybe we should have a Cape Cod Cherry get-together sometime. I’m within commuting distance.
On March 16, 2013 at 3:17 pm Sure Thing said...
Field trip over. Man, I’m mad!!
On March 16, 2013 at 3:25 pm Sure Thing said...
Poor organisation + traffic caused a bus to be delayed. Result: delayed start. Then bus driver drove on route that has MAJOR road works. We crawled along and the bus that left after us and took another route, only arrived 5 or 10 min after us. Grrrr.
On March 16, 2013 at 3:26 pm Barbara Monajem said...
Ooh, the latest CS Harris, Gin!! I’ll have to go get it. I’ve been traveling to Ancient Rome a lot lately. No real time travel, alas, but via the mysteries by Lindsey Davis.
I visited Venice last year. That was truly awesome, and I want to go to Rome next. Also enjoyed Dublin very much, especially the archaeological museum (actually, that’s about all I got to see, but it was fabulous).
On March 16, 2013 at 8:08 pm Becke Martin Davis said...
I’ve never been to Venice or Rome, but I love Florence. I heard it’s not as nice as it used to be, but I had a wonderful time there.
On March 17, 2013 at 4:58 pm Glee said...
I liked Rome but loved Sienna. Venice will always hold a special spot in my heart as will Lake Balaton and Budapest. I am so lucky….
On March 16, 2013 at 7:11 pm coloradohope said...
Hi, lurker coming out here. I’ve been lucky to travel myself, but I have to say one of my favorite ways to extend my knowledge of other places is to use Google Earth. My son was on a tall ship training program for 8 months and I could get a real feel for all his ports of call. I saw places I will probably never travel to (and got reports from him as well about what each place was like). I also use the Google street level program, which I can’t remember what it’s called right now. My daughter has lived abroad a lot, currently in Burgundy. I have been able to poke around the various neighborhoods she lives in, see where she buys her bread, etc. Its’ so fun and free! You miss the museums and the taste and smell of the food, but I like to travel as much for a sense of a place and the people who live there.
Hope
On March 16, 2013 at 7:31 pm Louise said...
Yes, where to the days go. The probably passed me by while I had my bum up and head down, blocking everything out while I went through the last edit of my WIP. One chapter to go and then the fun begins with a new story…YAY. So looking forward to that.
Hope everyone is having a great weekend.
On March 16, 2013 at 7:40 pm PG said...
I went on a year-long round-the-world trip a couple of years ago. It was mostly developing countries, so that we would be merely broke rather than indebted when we came home. Except we made the mistake of assuming that developed countries in financial crisis with high unemployment would now be affordable, so we spent a month in Spain. Big mistake — since they’re on the euro and prices remained sticky, it was the second most expensive part of the trip, even though we mostly stayed in Malaga the whole time and rented an apartment. The MOST expensive was Australia — their dollar had reached parity with the U.S., so even crummy hostels were expensive and good cocktails cost more than at the Plaza Hotel in NY. For the sake of our budget, I wish we had skipped Australia, and especially that we hadn’t spent quite so long in Sydney.
It’s amazing how easy the internet has made it to plan travel on the fly even in poorer countries that are not predominately English-speaking. We arrived in Marrakesh with a hotel reservation for 2 days, spent half of one day looking around at apartments for a month rental, and then spent a month in a fun apartment near D’jema el Fna. Also had a good apartment rental experience in Buenos Aires; less good in Bangkok. Great couple of weeks in a camper van in New Zealand.
I highly recommend going to Egypt right now, their tourism industry has taken such a hit since the revolution, you can stay in nice hotels for half the price it normally would be. We stayed in Sheratons for the entire trip (other than the obligatory Nile cruise) for about $50/night. Also the tourist sites are so empty, you can spend as much time as you want without anyone trying to rush you along. They used to have a timed entry on the King Tut room at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo; now they don’t care how long you hang out there.
On March 16, 2013 at 9:36 pm jmdwyer said...
Aww, now now. Australians have had to deal with the high cost of the US$ for years. We have had to just deal with it. Save up longer. Suck it up. Just like we’ve always done. It’s nice to have an A$ that goes further now. A little less saving up. A little less sucking it up. Swings and roundabouts. It’s our time now. Don’t begrudge us. It doesn’t happen often. Wait long enough and you will have it all your way again soon enough. Most boutique currencies fall and rise with alacrity.
I do so feel for the poor Egyptians. The loss of the almighty tourist dollar is such a terrible blow to their economy. Then there are all those extremely well-educated Egyptologists and other sundry professionals, like doctors, who work for the tourist trade. It’s great to be able to spend quality time to savour the antiquities. I count myself very lucky to have spent a lot of time in Egypt in the 80s. I have to admit that I wouldn’t be rushing to visit now. How wussy of me! Glad you had a great time.
On March 18, 2013 at 12:24 am PG said...
Bah, what’s the good of being an American if I can’t self-centeredly complain about other countries’ not being just like home in some respect (e.g. cost)? I’ve read Twain and Henry James, I know such a complaint is a longstanding travel tradition.
We were in Egypt in June/July 2011, so it was pretty safe everywhere. A friend went at Christmas 2011 and there were some violent police responses to protests (meet the new boss…), but still very quiet for tourists. Probably speaking only with English-speakers affiliated with the tourism industry created a selection bias, but everyone we talked to had basically the same view: revolution getting rid of Mubarak, good; lengthy unrest and a perceived decrease in the country’s welcomingness for Western and especially Israeli tourists, bad. We went scuba diving in Sharm el Sheikh and there were only three Israelis on our boat; apparently normally there would be a dozen. I don’t think there’s anything for American or Australian tourists to worry about still, but sadly Israelis are probably not wussy to stay away.
On March 18, 2013 at 12:25 pm Robena Grant said...
Don’t worry PG, I’m Australian but live in the US and while I LOVE my birth country I couldn’t get over how little $100 Au bought me when there last year. Told Mum they were living with Hawaiian prices. : )
On March 16, 2013 at 8:09 pm Skye said...
I really enjoyed staying in Wales many years ago. And I enjoyed my long, meandering road trip from Oregon to Houston a few years ago. But right now I just want to get moved and settle in and not go anywhere but locally for a while. I’m going to play tourist in Seattle and get reacquainted with the city and surrounding areas, including places I didn’t go or didn’t explore during all the years I used to live there.
On March 16, 2013 at 8:11 pm Becke Martin Davis said...
I lived in England for seven years when I was young, and have traveled a little. My kids have been to much more exotic locales, though. My daughter spent a month touring Morocco a few years ago when she had a Moroccan boyfriend. She LOVED it!
My son has been to China and Tibet – he loved visiting both but didn’t have much good to say about yak butter tea.
On March 16, 2013 at 9:15 pm jmdwyer said...
I’m making my first visit to NY this August, although I’ve been travelling to the States regularly for the past little while. I’m going back to New England to see some of the parts I missed last time, particularly more of Maine and Arcadia National Park. Yay!! I’m also doing a trip that will take me from Montreal (Lovely city & Canadian to boot!!!) down the Hudson Valley to NY.
Now, NY is not my kind of place. Give me Boston or San Francisco any day. But, the Frick and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are my kind of places! I like to walk around a new city and I realise this may not be appropriate in NY in early August. The tour hotel is the Marriott at Times Square and because it’s just easier, I’m staying on there for 2 extra days just to go to those 2 galleries.
Looking at the map, it doesn’t look like I can walk, particularly in the revolting August weather. (I can’t deal with humidity.) Any suggestions for a lone lady cherry for getting about?
On March 17, 2013 at 12:00 am Susan said...
The Met is about forty blocks from Times Square and not directly on a subway route, but you could get close (maybe four or five blocks off) that way. I believe a bus goes right up there. If not, taxi.
Subways and buses are perfectly safe in that part of the town; the platforms will be warm, but I believe the trains are all air conditioned.
On March 17, 2013 at 11:34 am Susan D (aka Cherry Beach) said...
Lone ladies travelling anywhere (Cherries or otherwise) can get some good travel tips from http://www.journeywoman.com/
Happy journeys.
On March 18, 2013 at 5:59 am Kira said...
NYC is great for walking around. You might get lucky with the weather, it’s not always humid. My favorite part of NYC is downtown, Wall St, it’s a completely different vibe from Midtown, its history, the atmosphere, the attitude, even the streets.
On March 16, 2013 at 9:48 pm lily malone said...
Great to hear about all these travel ideas. I did all my travelling so long ago now (late 80s) deferring University and heading off for two years to London & the continent. Right now, we’ve just moved back to my ‘home’ after 12 years in another part of Australia and so in some respects, it feels like a holiday. I can be a tourist again in my home town. Not sure if any of the ‘Cherries’ follow surfing or wine?? But right now I’m in Margaret River, very south west tip of Australia. It’s pretty high on tourism here and it’s a lovely part of the world.
On March 17, 2013 at 11:48 am kerryk said...
I wonder if our do-it-your-self planning on the internet is always the best way. Travel agents always had their finger on the pulse of cost and accommodations. Not to mention a lot of little known things-festivals, routes contacts etc. I am not a travel agent but am considering using one for my next trip. Does anyone have feed-back on the current state of travel agents?
On March 17, 2013 at 2:34 pm Jessie said...
The New York Times did an article on using independent travel agents last year so a Google search may turn up something. And AAA has a travel agent but I don’t know how good it is for foreign travel. This doesn’t really help that much but at least it is a start of where to look.
On March 18, 2013 at 12:27 am PG said...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/travel/are-travel-agents-back.html?pagewanted=all
On March 18, 2013 at 12:34 pm Robena Grant said...
I adore travelling to new places (and revisiting much loved spots) but in recent years I’ve shied away from travelling alone (except to Australia) so that has limited what I can do. In years past I’d hop a plane and go to France or Italy or the UK, whenever I could afford to do so, but not anymore. Maybe I might try a tour group, you know join the leisure suit and sneaker crowd. ; )
On March 18, 2013 at 5:45 pm Carol said...
Paris – I adore Paris! Been twice and would go back in a heartbeat, if there weren’t so many other places to go.
Hawaiian Airlines has just started flights from LA to Auckland, NZ (via Honolulu) so the husband and I are contemplating a trip… We have dear friends who live on a sheep farm north of Auckland, so at least part of our time would be there.
On March 19, 2013 at 2:10 am Micki said...
One of my favorite trips was to Singapore/Malaysia. I remember the Kuala Lumpur train station as being pink — maybe it was sunset when we saw it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur_Railway_Station
Just a frothy, Arabic Nights sort of confection of architecture.
I would love to go to that part of the world again.
On March 19, 2013 at 7:41 pm Sue said...
I lived in K.L. for a year, and it really was a frothy station. Malaysia has the best food in the world. The merging of Malay, Chinese and Indian food is spectacular.
On March 19, 2013 at 11:14 am Lola said...
I have a cousin who travels the world by cruise lines, so maybe it’s cheaper than flying? She going to Russia next Fall by ship.
On March 20, 2013 at 1:09 pm PG said...
Cruises should be less expensive than usual for a little while now, due to the much-reported misadventures of the Carnival ships. http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2013/02/15/carnival-triumph-cruise-travel-bookings-prices/1922915/
On March 22, 2013 at 1:37 pm Amalia said...
I love travelling!!! I’m from the northwest part of Spain originally and go back every summer… I live in NJ, about 10 miles outside of NYC (love NYC and just walking around the Village and Soho). I just got back from spending 12 days in Madrid, and am trying to decide if I want to join a friend on her conference to Berlin in May. The conference is for 10 days, and that just’s a little too long for Berlin alone. I need to find good day trips to do from there.