The Egg Has Dropped: September 2006

Annapolis (9th Sep)

Here are some photos from the ‘city’ of Annapolis, Maryland, which I visited two weeks back. Annapolis is more like a small town… at least that’s how downtown Annapolis looks to me.

Quaint little Annapolis...

Cute brick house

The whole downtown area is all 18th century buildings and it is pretty interesting walking around town. I had a walk in the United States Naval Academy and saw the beautiful Naval Academy Chapel and also visited the State House of Maryland (not too interesting for me though).

Beautiful chapel in the shade of my fav color blue!

Boats of the Naval Academy

Maryland State House

That’s that for this little town… it was still quite an alright outing for me… finding an excuse to get out and drive out and actually do something different over a Sunday… but I guess I’ve pretty much went to most of the places I want to see in Maryland already. I’m thinking of making a day trip to Philadelphia and probably a long weekend trip to Boston before the end of this year which will sort of round up my northeastern travels in the states.

Falling Leaves

Fall has come and I have finally fulfilled one of my wishes coming to the states… to see the 4 seasons! Fall… the amount of daylight you get reduces as we get closer and closer to winter… the leaves on the trees start to turn from green to all shades between brown and yellow and fall to the ground… and the days really start to get colder.

As much as I liked the quiet cold beauty of the winter, the promise and hope of the spring... I ended up liking the warmth of the summer most. I like the hot sun burning my skin… which is pretty much like Singapore at the end of the day! (minus the rain and humidity!)

The traveling bug is biting again! After my initial plan of going to LA was delayed… I decided to make a trip to Yellowstone National Park in the state of Wyoming in two weeks time! This is a more adventurous trip for me I guess! The plan is to take a plane to Salt Lake City, Utah, rent a car and drive over 300 miles (fyi Singapore is only 85 miles or 137 kilometers long!) over 6 hours through Idaho Falls, Idaho to West Yellowstone, Montana. The plane trip will have a short stopover at Minneapolis, Minnesota, so I will actually cover 4 states in this trip! … and I’m doing it all alone!!

As far as I know nobody usually try to do these kind of traveling alone and in fact most of the American friends I known haven’t been to Yellowstone before! Well, I’ve read about the Old Faithful geyser when I was a little boy (from Bookworm books… yes I’m a nerd!) and since I’m here, I might as well do something I will never think I’ll do right? So look out for my trip report!

On a side note… this freaking TV I got since I moved, has rendered me to a lazy ass couch potato! Finally I got to mess around with my blog a bit… changed to colors to kind of reflect the fall color and actually blog a bit! I’ll make an effort to up more songs and blog more!

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (2nd Sep)

I went over to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Dulles, Virginia over the weekend of Labor Day. This center is part of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and is located very close to the Washington Dulles International Airport.

It was pretty neat with those full size planes which includes those humongous passenger jets and even a space shuttle! However, you can't access the interior of the planes which is really a downer... parking was expensive too! I guess it is still worth a visit if you stay in the Washington area although i much prefer the air and space museum over at The Mall... how many times can you see a real life-size space shuttle?

I can imagine my god-brother will be so excited if he's here... he absolutely love planes and there is a whole lot of planes here!