Day 19 - NYC to Boston

Distance: 230 miles
Time: 5 hours

We drove into Brighton at 1:30 today, the neighborhood just east of Allston - it's very very cute with short townhouses and family homes, and quaint little shops. At 2:30 (traffic was horrible) we made it to our apartment in Allston, right on the green line, with a CVS pharmacy and a gym right across the street, restaurants and bars half a block away, and every service necessary within a 2-5 block walk, except maybe a large grocery store. There's even a restaurant and a cafe in our building.


The only bad things are that 1) the green line stops evey bock to pick up people, and 2) Commonwealth Avenue in front of our apartment is not very well-maintained - good thing we didn't bring a car! There is a park behind our building, and the sides of our building have ivy climbing all over them. It's nice to live someplace that feels old inside. Nice and strange.


We met almost all of our adjacent neighbors, all of whom were extremely friendly and welcoming, right before we too off for the hardware store to buy a powerful air conditioner. The humidity is fierce and it was already hot to begin with. Once we had that installed, we made a run to the grocery store with the few hours we had left on our rental car. There is one a half-mile inbound, and one mile outbound on Comm Ave - not too bad eh?


The apartment is great - thanks to Nomusa! - with high ceilings, wooden floors, lots of kitchen storage, and an antique shower system.


Nick returned the car and bought us month-long unlimited Charlie Cards for the T and bus systems. Then we inflated the air mattress and called it a night.