I’m going to live in Allston, MA from 15 Sep to 1 Feb 2011.
I’ll be spending most of my time on my Masters thesis, and working part-time at my current employer ViaSat.
I’ve always lived in Californian suburbia (Los Gatos, Cambria, La Jolla), and frankly I’m tired of it. I want to live somewhere different, to feel somewhere new. Urban New England is certainly new.
Off-the-cuff list of things to do:
- a Sox game
- sail on the Charles and/or in the harbor
- make a snowman; fight in a snowball battle
- ice skate on some frozen body of water
- do the Revolutionary War historical sites thing
- compare Atlantic & Pacific beaches; contrast Atlantic sunrise & Pacific sunset
- long weekend in NYC
- drive up to NH, VT, ME for the autumn colors
- visit my aunts & uncles in NY, NJ, PA
- tour & sample some breweries, including but not limited to Sam Adams
What else should one do in New England that one can’t do in California?
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