I'm in Boston

G'day everyone, I'm in Boston now!! Arrived last night at about 7pm after a marathon flight from Sydney via Manila stretched out over a few days - I reckon I was on the road for about 30 hours including waiting time in both Nagoya, Japan and Detroit, Michigan. Even though we were in the Northwest Lounge in Detroit having to wait five hours for our connecting flight to Logan, the minutes positively crawled by - we were at the stage where we just wanted to go to bed.

So far the city looks great, what little I've seen of it. Reminds me more of Melbourne than Sydney with all the old Victorian buildings. I checked out my university (Babson College) today and geez the campus looks beautiful! Am meeting up with a bunch of people in my class tomorrow night to get on the turps at some pub in Boston.

Did a wee bit of driving around to get a feel for suburbs, tomorrow I'll check out some apartments. With the interstates it's fairly easy to get around quickly as long as it's not peak hour - big difference from Sydney where you have to use arterial roads all the time. The rental car company boffins were supposed to give us a midsize car as I didn't want a big one, but they screwed up and upgraded me to a Chrysler Pacifica - a seven seater SUV beast. It's MASSIVE!!!! Bloody hard to drive and see where the end of it is.

Anyway, I will be sporadically online depending on how this wireless network at my hotel holds up, it's been on and off for much of today. But I thought I'd update my to-do list that I started below:

1. Housing - starting to check places out, hope to finalise by next weekend
2. Laptop - ended up getting a Sony VAIO. The screen has fecked up after less than three weeks!!! Have to get it fixed.
3. Removalists - getting EzySend to ship my boxes via air once I have a permanent address
4. Packing - all done (obviously)

One more thing - it's bloody hot here today - 100 F (whatever that is in C). I thought it was supposed to be cold here?? Just a couple of weekends ago I was skiing in -15 C blizzard conditions at the top of Mount Perisher in the Snowy Mountains, now I'm broiling to death. Oh well.

Seeya for now, will check in later once I've sorted out accommodation and things. Will post some pics as well as soon as I figure out how to do it!