Four Months Later...

I can't believe I haven't written in so long. My last post was just before our trip to Boston. And now we've just returned from a conference in Berkeley. Both incredibly unglamorous trips. To scrimp on money, for both trips, I decided not to rent a car and wing it via public transport. It worked just fine in Boston. Our hotel had a shuttle to the airport, which is where the conference was (the Airport Hilton-- not the airport). And when we did venture out, we took the "T"-- to the Science Museum to see the Harry Potter exhibition.

We also took the T to Harvard-- just to say we walked through Harvard. We did try out one veg-friendly joint, Veggie Planet, in the Harvard area, but were sorely disappointed. It certainly looks promising, and perhaps we simply ordered the wrong thing.

That's Zips' greek salad (they were out of kalamata olives, so doubled the quantity of feta thereby rendering it inedible). I had a half of some other kind of salad and a mushroom barley soup. The salad was soaked in lime juice and the soup was disappointingly watery. Like mushroom slices and barley literally floating in hot water. bleah. Traveling to Boston in November was not something I thought through entirely, and we packed for November in New Mexico. After the sour stomach effects of this outing, we spent the majority of our time at the Au Bon Pain in Terminal A downing fresh orange juice and the vegetarian soup of the day.

Again, I chose (stupidly) not to rent a car for our trip to SF. The public transport is supposed to be among the best in cities in the US. That may be, but I made us walk all over the place, block after block of "it's just up there." However, we had the FINEST veg dining we've EVER had. Ever.