[11 August, Tanju] We arrived at Chicago at Sunday night. Our hotel was centrally located and family oriented. When I attempted to post my Niagara notes before down, I spilled water on my laptop’s keyboard. Thus we had to start…
Niagara notes
[9-10 August, Tanju] I’m delayed in writing but managed to update our Niagara picture gallery in the mean time. We left Boston with delay due to the slowness in the car rental place, then ran into some unexpected slow traffic…
Adventure begins
USA: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Cataltepe family. Its two-week mission: to explore known tourist attractions, to seek out reasonable hotels and restaurants, to boldly go where many a tourist has gone before. [With apologies to…
Last day in Boston
Friday the 8th was our last day in Boston. We again walked to MIT around noon. I saw Zehra and Irem off to a meeting at Boston University and walked to my old dorms. I had stayed at MacGregor House…
Museum Day
The main event of Thursday Aug 7th, our sixth day by my reckoning from Day 0, was the visit to the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The day started with rain, in addition Zehra had one of her long Skype…
Day 5
We walked to Kendall at noon on Wednesday to have lunch with Prat (see my Day 4 post.) Ali had already gone to his class early in the morning. We talked about start-ups, returning home etc. When Prat complained about…
Day 4
The highlight of the day was dinner with Rıdvan after almost 30 years. We’ve last seen each other in 1986 when he visited Los Angeles. I finally got to meet Emine as well. I had no difficulty recognizing him from…
Old Boston
The weather forecast was cloudy with some thunderstorms for the week on Sunday. We woke up to a sunny and hot Monday. Now the forecast is sunny and hot for the duration of our stay in Boston. We dropped Ali…
First weekend in Boston
The weather was overcast and drizzly. We spend the first weekend shopping and visiting the MIT campus. We shopped for the trip essentials such as the US phone numbers, T-passes for the Boston area public transport, clothing and shoes for…
Day 0
We started with two hour delay in Istanbul, but the rest of the journey was uneventful.