Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts

Jul 14, 2010

Regarding Civilised Rail Travel in the Americas

Response to this letter from the Vicereine, Kamilah Hauptmann.

My Dearest Kamilah,


You do me great honor by your invitation to spend time with you in New York City. I confess that I have been hoping for such time together since we last met nearly two years ago in the wilds of suburban Canada. I was surprised that my weaponry were not required for defense against moose or the odd trapper or logger wandering into town. However, as I recall the two of us should have used the heavy gold coins in our evening bags to delicately bludgeon several of the patrons in the dining room upon our grand arrival for cocktails. One would have thought that they had never seen a regal Lioness nor a corseted Duchess in their lives. *sigh*

Lionsgate and Loch Avie

To our travel details:

I shall also be traveling by rail into New York City - perhaps we will challenge the answer to "If two trains are traveling to NYC at the same time - one going south, one going north......".
I do not see the specific days that you have in mind for this travel, however, I will check with my secretary and determine which days are ideal for travel and which days are possible with complex appointment manipulation.

We should indeed arrive at the same terminal, therefore, depending on our travel schedules, we may be able to walk and talk on our way to luncheon. The subway, while it is not as filled with the hoodlums and trouble-makers you about which you may have heard tales, is still not my favorite mode of transportation in the city. You will, however, adore the "T" (subway) while you are in the fair city of Boston. It is generally quite civilised unless you happen to be traveling through Kenmore Square on baseball game day.

I have a number of thoughts on luncheon possibilities, but now understanding your desire to see our lovely Lady Liberty, I shall have another check on this and will make appropriate plans. I will tell you that the Museum of Modern Art is quite wonderful & with excellent lunch possibilities as well. We shall carefully consider and plan.

As to whether I will be "packing heat", I simply ask when you have ever known me to be unprepared for any occasion.


So do leave your hockey stick at home; however, with just the right skirt and blouse those logger boots might be quite urban chic.


Let us keep in close touch as we make our plans. You may feel free to use my wireless device for contact along with aetheric mail and such.

Yours &c,
Eva

p.s. No coffee, just lots of laughter in a, thankfully, empty office suite. Do feel free to blog this - as you most certainly know I will. *muah dahlink*

Jul 9, 2009

Time for a Real Life Adventure - and a Teaser for Things to Come

In just a little over under 4 hours my typist, her husband, her children, and her mother-in-law will climb in the car for the drive to JFK where a plane awaits to take them across the pond.

Not unlike me, my human loves a good adventure. Really she is not all that dissimilar to me at all.

So with her gallivanting all over Finland, Russia, and Scotland, I may not be around in world - or even here - much.

I'll look forward to stories about all the fun I have missed while away.


Before I go, I wanted to give you a little taste of an event that is on the horizon:



A combined Steelhead and Isle of Skye (Winterfell Anodyne) event:


Themed Formal Dance to be held in the ballroom of
Castle Teanacadh on Isle of Skye

Release your inner zombie, zombie hunter, ninja, or ill-fated Regency period aristocrat

and come dance and feast with us (brains are on the menu)
on July 31st at 7pm SLT

Jul 7, 2007

Terve Suomi!

HELLO FINLAND!




Well my human and I have made it to Finland. The flights on the various airships were not too bad. And most pleasantly, we find ourselves not terribly out of sync with our circadian rhythms.

Last night, we walked in the sunlight at around 10:30pm and enjoyed the sights and sounds of the city. I also tried some traditional Lapland foods at dinner. The Reindeer and Cheddar Soup was particularly fantastic.



Now, I suppose, I should change into something a bit more comfortable to go exploring. Hopefully I will have wonderful things to report to you in the near future.