East Coast Trip: Itinerary, Thus Far

A work in progress by Linda and Elaine. We are traveling from CA to DC to NY to Boston for under $150!!! HOLLA.

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Screw work. We need to plan! We also need to add food places to this list

 

10 day trip beginning Wed, July 29th-August 7th. 

 

Possible itinerary:

 

Wednesday, July 29 (DC)

-take ride eye flight into Washington DC (arrive in the AM)

Linda: Long Beach –> DC 

Flight 300

Long Beach, CA 9:30pm

Wash. Dulles 05:18am

Elaine: 

Flight 318

Oakland, CA 10:15pm

Wash. Dulles 06:19am

 

Airport to Hotel or friend’s place to drop off stuff (7-8ish)

-Breakfast with Diane Feinstein

-Map of memorials: http://dcmemorials.com/national_mall_11×17.pdf 

-Visit Smithsonian, Memorials – we can take this bus http://www.tourmobile.com/tours_cemetery.php

-Visit Adams-Morgans district at night for dinner/bar?

 -Zooku (club): According to coworker, “Where all the cute asians are”

 

Thursday, July 30 (DC)

-breakfast at Ben’s Chilli’s 

-Visit Capitol Hill/White House

-Lunch at Tacqueria Nacionale

-Bike ride around Georgetown/Foggy Bottom

-Dinner at Rasika 

 

Friday, July 31 (DC/NYC)

-talk Bolt into NYC: 

Washington, D.C. 10th & H NW to New York 33rd and 7th (Service to DC & Baltimore)

Departing 7/31/2009 at 12:30 PM, arriving 4:45 PM

-Empire State Building

-Grand Central Terminal

-Rockerfeller Center

-Times Square

  

Saturday, Aug 1 (NYC)

-lunch at Jean Georges 

-Metropolitan Museum of Art

-Central Park (http://www.centralpark.com/pages/activities/concerts.html)

-Bryant Park

-Barney’s

-Broadway show – I heard Avenue Q is pretty good. Jersey Boys? Cirque de Soilei?

-MomoFuku

Sunday, Aug 2 (NYC)

-Guggenheim Museum ($15 ticket for students)

-Brooklyn Bridge & Brooklyn Heights Promenade

-Check out Harlem/Morning Side Heights (St Patrick’s Cathedral)

-Sylvia’s for sooooul food.

-Jewish deli

-Going out!!

-[St. Mark's square, NYU area]

 

Monday, August 3 (NYC)

-Little Italy & Chinatown

-Shopping around SoHo (or Greenwich)

-Banh Mi at Nicky’s Vietnamese Sandwiches

-bar

-NY Public Library

 -TV taping! << we should look into this now (Daily Show, Colbert Report)  [Vijay: I don't think either of these shows tape on Fridays... :'(]

-Le Bernardin

Tuesday, August 4 (NYC)

-American Museum of Natural History

Tribeca?

Ellis Island/Staten Island/Statue of Liberty

Cafe Boulud

Cafeteria

Serendipity

Wednesday, August 5 (NYC/Boston)

-take Bolt into Boston:

New York 34th and 8th by Tick Tock (Phil. & Bos.) to Boston South Station — Gate 21
Departing 8/5/2009 at 8:00 AM, arriving 12:15 PM

-Freedom Trail!

-Boston Harbor

 

Thursday, August 6 (Boston)

-Flour bakery 

-Explore Cambridge (Harvard Square, MIT)

-Boston Public Garden

-John Adams Square

 

Friday, August 7 (Boston)

-fly back to LA in the afternoon