One thing that's neat about working in America is that people are far more likely to spell my name correctly, even in very informal communication. In Australia, people I'd known for years would still get it wrong. }:|
(This minor note of appreciation prompted by looking at my referrer logs and seeing just how many people come here by searching for the wrong thing).
Over the labour day weekend, Lauren and I popped over to New York - we'd always wanted to go, and now that we live relatively close, we figured we might as well.
The trip was largely internet-guided - with Yelp Mobile launching a week before, much of the trouble of finding a place to eat (which is terribly hard when one of you is a vegetarian who doesn't like standard vegetarian food, and the other is a voracious meat-lover who likes eating any old crap that isn't vegetables) disappeared - we would often just decide we wanted 'pizza', do a search for it in our area, then go to the closest one with the highest rating. You can read my reviews in my Yelp profile (you'll have to dig around if you're reading from the mysterious future).
However, the best and worst recommendations came from outside Yelp - Aaron guided us to Veniero's, which was DEVINE. But then Kottke recommended a trip to Philly Slim's, probably the worst advice I've ever been given.
The only things not on there are the Dunkin Donuts Coffee, which Ojan recommended (as coffee snobs, Lauren and I are never listening to Ojan ever again). And the Nathan's 'famous' hotdogs, which were similarly awful (the rather poor meat and bun was made into a total disaster by the further application of Cheese Whiz).
In all, it was an excellent holiday, with our trip to the Guggenheim being the non-food highpoint. The low-point was having a slow shuttle back to the airport, a slow line to check in, and no information telling us that check-in had a hard cut-off of 30 minutes, so when we checked in with 25 minutes to go, we were told that we couldn't, and would instead have to wait overnight or more for a possible standby flight back via multiple connecting flights. We ended up having to pay an extra $800 for tickets home, which was slightly upsetting at the time.
The photos are going up soon.
