Yeah, I made good time on this trip

Wyoming sunset over the Big Horn Mountains on I-90

NYC - Empire State Building view at night - Southeast, with Brooklyn Bridge, etc.

NYC - Empire State Building view at night - West

NYC - Empire State Building view at night - Northwest, notice Times Square glow

NYC - Empire State Building view at night - North

NYC - Nasdaq in Times Square

NYC - Times Square

NYC - Trump Tower, for all you Apprentice fans

NYC - the weirdest musical instrument I've ever seen, in the Trump Tower atrium

NYC - Trump Tower lobby - I saw Carolyn (executive VP of the Trump Organization) here

NYC - United Nations building

NYC - sculpture outside the UN, with the UN visible in the reflection

NYC - cool looking building outside the UN

NYC - United Nations lobby area - notice Sputnik floating above a photo exhibition

NYC - United Nations Security Council chamber, where Colin Powell made the case for war

NYC - Ground Zero, another closeup

NYC - Ground Zero closeup

NYC - Ground Zero with other WTC buildings visible

NYC - Statue of Liberty impersonators

NYC - Ellis Island

NYC - FDNY boat that was following our ferry around Ellis Island

NYC - Statue of Liberty - with Dave

NYC - Statue of Liberty

NYC - Statue of Liberty

NYC - Statue of Liberty - with view of Manhattan

NYC - Brooklyn Bridge - from the ferry

NYC - Lower Manhattan - from the ferry

NYC - Goldman Sachs building, the new tallest building in New Jersey

NYC - Lower Manhattan - with Dave

NYC - Lower Manhattan - Battery Park dock where the ferry leaves from

NYC - Lower Manhattan - in previous years, the WTC twin towers would've been dominating this view

NYC - boat to Statue of Liberty / Ellis Island - it was pretty crowded, to say the least

In Chicago now

So DC, New York, and Boston were all fantastic. I took off from Boston yesterday and arrived in Chicago last night. Went out on the town with Jon and Mihir (Mo was being lame), and then crashed at Jon's place. Will probably stay with Mo & Mihir tonight.

On the agenda for tonight is one of the world's best DJs that I've never seen -- Armin Van Buren -- at Chicago's biggest dance club, Vision. Vision is actually a mega-club, a series of interconnected clubs inside an old cathedral in downtown Chicago. Mihir should be snapping some pics there, so hopefully I can grab them and post them here.

I'll also post all of my New York pics soon. Got some amazing ones of all the typical New York sights. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pics in Boston. My friend Ben and I went to see Revenge of the Sith (opening day!) and sightseeing straight from there, and unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me. Oh well -- I think my NYC pics make up for it.

I'll be in Chicago until Wednesday of next week, when I make my way back home to good old Portland, where I should arrive Friday sometime. Just in time for Memorial Day weekend. Trying not to think of what comes after that. (Work, ugh.) Anyway, stay tuned, more pics will be posted here soon.

Between DC and NYC

I left DC today, checked out the amazing new Air & Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles International (pics posted below), and then headed up to Ken & Tracy's place halfway to New York. The traffic SUCKED, but other than that the drive was uneventful. Tomorrow morning I'll be headed straight down 78 into the Big Apple...

DC - Air & Space Museum - the new Udvar-Hazy Center out by Dulles International where all these pics were taken

DC - Air & Space Museum - commercial/private aviation hangar

DC - Air & Space Museum - military aviation hangar

DC - Air & Space Museum - this guy was floating through the air above the Space Shuttle Enterprise

DC - Air & Space Museum - Space Shuttle Enterprise (again)

DC - Air & Space Museum - Space Shuttle Enterprise

DC - Air & Space Museum - the Concorde

DC - Air & Space Museum - Enola Gay (again), the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

DC - Air & Space Museum - Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

DC - Air & Space Museum - SR-71 Blackbird (again), the most badass plane ever built

DC - Air & Space Museum - SR-71 Blackbird (again), the most badass plane ever built

DC - Air & Space Museum - SR-71 Blackbird that set the speed record for any jet, ever

DC - Smithsonian Castle (again)

DC - Natural History Museum - just had to take a picture of this...

DC - Natural History Museum - Easter Island statue (objects are much larger than they appear)

DC - Natural History Museum - "what, what's everyone looking at?"

DC - Einstein Memorial