Spring break~~~~
After 9 weeks of school, finally I could have a breakaway from study. Ehem, perhaps I not really study but isn’t that you should get excited with spring break? My third trip in the US was going to East Coast. I have been longing the spring break to come, New York is one of my dream destinations, I was so excited about going to New York!!!!
Actually I feel resistant to write the travel wrap up for this East Coast trip, because I have travelled to a lot of cities for just 7 days and I am pretty sure I have plenty of things to write. >.< I could not finish this trip in just one blog post, the best way to help me achieve this task is divide the story into different parts. Haha! OK, no more smiley faces, I should start writing now….
It takes 5 hour from LA to New York by plane, equivalent to the flight from Malaysia to Australia/Taiwan. Flying from LA to New York is like drawing a diagonal line, crossing the US map. The airline we took was American Airlines, a budget airline likes Air Asia. (Haha, just found out that both of them have the acronym of AA) AA is really a “budget” airline, passengers only allowed to bring a carry-on bag, if you want to check in your luggage, you need to pay, USD25 for the first piece and USD 50 for the second piece. BLOOD SUCKING airline!!!! But the worst thing about the flight wasn’t because of the long travelling hour or the luggage fee that I need to pay but the no-meal served service. Luckily for humanitarian reasons, they serve drinks. This is the thing that you need to scarify when you are on budget, either food or money. 5 hour no food and no entertainment in the cabin, I survived that by sleeping all the way.
We took the flight at 11.00am in the morning and by the time we reached in New York, it was 7.00pm in New York. LA is in Pacific Standard Time while East Coast is in Eastern Standard Time, 3 hours time difference. [Fun Fact: there are 9 time zones in the US, Atlantic Standard Time (AST), Eastern Standard Time (EST), Central Standard Time (CST), Mountain Standard Time (MST), Pacific Standard Time (PST), Alaskan Standard Time (AKST), Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HST), Samoa standard time (UTC-11) and Chamorro Standard Time (UTC+10)]
We were starving by the time we reached in New York. The travel agency sent a staff to pick us up at JFK airport. At first, I felt that the tour agency is so considerate but then I learned that this is because our hotel is located in New Jersey, there is no way we can travel to the hotel by ourselves. It took us 3 hour from JFK Airport in New York to our hotel in New Jersey. Some more this is not a “direct” van to New Jersey, it dropped some of the passengers in other hotel before it drove us to ours.
We were dying for food when we reached at the hotel. At the end, we decided to have our dinner/supper (or maybe lunch since we didn’t have lunch) at an Italian restaurant.
This is considered as the first day of our tour. The tour agency is damn smart, just brings us from airport to hotel and counted it as a day. And you need to pay tips also… for the driver who bring you to your hotel…That's why people always say tourism is a profitable business.
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