This is a page to note things we did during Mako's sabbatical year on the east coast.
Boston
- Farmacia
New Haven
Foods&Drinks
DOs
- Long trail to run on from Yale; some parts are rougher
New York
- cheaper hotel options near the Battery Park
- there's now a faster train to Penn from JFK
Newark
- Lots of people bike on the sidewalk
Transportions
- Airport
- Skytrain to Amtrak/NJ Transit station
Foods&Drinks
- Ironbound is the foodies' neighborhood
- Mompou
- good tapas
- Bello's tavern
- first gastropub in town
- soup of the day: whisky with rocks
- more affordable than other places
- Brick City Vegan
- vegan chicken biscuit sandwich
- Hobby's delicatessen
- great vegetarian reuben!
DOs
- Branch Brook Park
- Big cherry blossom focused park. About 15 minutes by bike from downtown Newark.
Princeton
Wilmington
- pretty empty on the streets but lots of people in restaurants
- good ohanami spots in downtown
- great ohanami spot/bench at Winterthur
Foods&Drinks
- Chancery food court
- Wilmington Brew
- Shakes-beer
- pizza next door
- Hotel Du Pont
- easter brunch
- famous cocktail
- Bardea
- The Quoin's cocktail bar
- Constitution
- Iron Hill
DOs
- Waterway trail
- Delaware Museum
- Winterthur
- ohanami!
- tour
- run
- tickets good for 2 days
- Run on JAM to New Castle
- little waterside town with a British style tavern
Baltimore
Washington DC
- stumpy
Miscellaneous
- Amtrak can be as cheap as $3 if purchased early.