New York, New York!

[mandragora]

It's a wonderful town, which I will be visiting from 9 to 16 June 2004.

Soooo, anyone want to meet up? Anyone?

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No one ever comes to New Jersey

[maisierita.livejournal.com]

Sure, all you folks, flitting about all over the globe, dashing to NYC, planning trips to London ... but does anyone ever come to NJ? Noooooooo.

Now admittedly, it is a little hard to come up, on short notice, with any reasons whatsoever anyone in her right mind would come to suburban NJ if she didn't already live here ... oh no, wait, I've got one! One could see my most adorable children. :) Surely that's worth a trip. ;)

~Margaret, remembering those 5 months living in scenic East Finchley on the Northern Line way back when ... and remembering renting a little -- gosh, what was it? Was it a Fiat Panda? -- with hubby-who-was-at-the-time-just-my-boyfriend -- and neither of us knew how to drive stick shift. Now *that* was a hoot. I seem to recall being extremely panicked on the ... ummm ... A4? Some big traffic highway with a big traffic circle.

Re: No one ever comes to New Jersey

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

Aw, poor Margaret. And, actually, I have been to New Jersey. I flew to Newark once on my way to NYC... *g*

I'm sure your adorable children are more than worth the trip. Maybe I could persuade Monica to come out to New Jersey? Although it looks like she's going to have to work most of the time, sadly. Maybe next time, a day trip to suburbia for that real American experience... *g*

I think the big roundabout was either the Hangar Lane gyratory system, which is where the A40 crosses over the North Circ, or the big roundabout where the A4 crosses over the North Circ. Either way they are both very big and require lots of lane swopping, which is disconcerting if you're not used to it.

As for not being able to drive a manual car... ouch! We don't let Brits who don't know how to drive one drive anything other than an automatic and at least they're used to driving on the right side of the road (there are separate driving tests in that you can take an automatic car one only, which means you can only drive an automatic car, or a manual car test, in which case you can drive both types). I can only imagine the trauma of trying to drive a manual car in London when you've only ever driven an automatic.