Washington DC, NYC and Boston 2022

DAY 1 – Saturday  11.06.22 

( Night at: U Street Capsule Hostel, Washington DC )

( The White House, Washington DC ) 

I woke up at 9 am I went downstairs I tried to to a breakfast but a member of the staff started to jell at me so I went to my room I packed I left my things in the storage and than I went out, I walked around New Orleans for the last time it was nice but very warm I get inside of the St. Luis Cathedral and walked around eat something and than by 1 pm I went back to the hostel I picked up my stuff and I walk to get the bus to go to the airport. Is pretty far the airport but well I left earlier because the ride took me over an hour. My flight is at 5:25 pm once I get to the airport I bought a sandwich at Starbucks and I eat it while I was waiting for my flight. The flight wasn’t the best a lot of turbulence unfortunately but it was only two hours flight luckily. I landed almost at 9 pm I waited for the luggage and than I went to find the metro but first I had to catch a bus and than the metro and for 10$ with the car included I could get to the hostel and I immediately went to sleep.

DAY 2 – Sunday 12.06.22

( Night at: U Street Capsule Hostel, Washington DC )

( United States Capitol, Washington DC ) 

I woke up at 9 am I went to McDonald’s to have breakfast and than I took the bus to visit the White House but unfortunately was very cloudy in the morning, anyway I keep walking around I visit St. Patrick Cathedral which is really beautiful that I keep walking till the National Building museum which it was pretty interesting with the temporary exhibition of Alan Karchmer. Later on when I get out of the museum the was was very nice and sunny fortunately so I walk to the Capitol passing by Pride event which it was in front of the capitol pretty nice I liked it, there were stand, music, drag queen going the shows. Than I walk to the Capitol but I didn’t get inside because on Sunday is closed and I walked through the United States Botanical garden and getting an hot dog on the way for lunch and than walk till the Washington memorial and the World War II Memorial. The weather at this point was very beautiful so I took the bus to go back to the White House to take few more pic with a nice weather which was definitely better and it’s really beautiful actually a bit smaller than what’s looks like in tv, from there I walked back to the Pride event passing and stopping by Starbucks to get something to eat and charge my phone. It was a really nice and chill event but being alone I got bored so I went back to the hostel around 8 pm to sleep and plan everything for the day after.

DAY 3 – Monday 13.06.22

( Night at: Q4 Hotel, Long Island )

( Abraham Lincoln statue, Washington DC ) 

I woke up at 10 am I went to the McDonald’s in front of the hostel to get something to eat and than I took the bus to to visit the Lincoln Memorial. I took few photos around and it was very warm I couldn’t really walk around, crazy warm weather. After I took again an other bus to go back to the hostel to get my luggage and I went to the Flixbus station a bit earlier and than the bus left at 3:30 pm. It was a really easy ride, quite long but I didn’t even feeling it honestly. I’ve crossed Washington DC, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. It was crazy crossing so many states just in few hours but well the landscape wasn’t nothing impressive, I met a German girl while I was waiting for the bus so we chatted a bit and than when we arrived at the Flixbus stop in NYC Midtown and we went to eat something at KFC together and than I took the metro to go at my hostel to check in take a shower and sleep. 

DAY 4 – Tuesday 14.06.22

( Night at: Q4 Hotel, Long Island )

( Top of The Rock, Rockefeller Center NYC )

I woke up kind of early at 9 am I took the metro to the Grand Central Terminal to visit the older train station in the world and than I walked to the New York public library which is really beautiful and than I explore Bryant Park which is probably one of my fav spot in NYC to chill. Than I walked to Time square it was very fascinating being there for the first time in my life at 26 years old, I was a bit emotional, than I stopped at Pret a Mangier and than I walked to the Rockefeller Center where I took few photos down there and than I bought the ticket to go up to the Top of the Rock and that was very emotional imagine all those people that build this building in the past so high and many of them died to build it is very terrified but well the view up there is beautiful very beautiful absolutely with it maybe during the sunset is even better but also like this I definitely enjoyed, while I was there a met a Colombian and a New Zealand girl so we chat a bit was very nice. Than I walked to the St. Peter Cathedral which is a really nice church and than I walked to the Central Park to explore a bit bit than I had to go back to the hostel to be ready to go to do the interview at club where I arrived at 9 pm and I worked till 4 am, I was very exhausted. 

DAY 5 – Wednesday 15.06.22

( Night at: Q4 Hotel, Long Island )

( The Cathedral of St. John , NYC )

Today I’ve done nothing just ordered some food from Taco Bell slept all day or well at least tried to sleep and than I started to get ready to work and being there at the Club by 8 pm ready to work all night.

DAY 6 – Thursday 16.06.22

( Night at: Q4 Hotel, Long Island )

( The view out of my Hostel in Long Island ) 

I slept all day very tired than I went to buy some food in the market around the hostel I had lunch and I went back to sleep till the time to get ready and go to work all night from 8 pm to 4 am again.

DAY 7 – Friday 17.06.22

( Night at: Q4 Hotel, Long Island )

( Time Square, NYC ) 

I slept all day till the noon that I woke up I ordered Taco Bell than I took a shower and I got ready to work all night til 4 am. 

DAY 8 – Saturday 18.06.22

( Night at: HI NYC Hostel )

( Rockefeller Center, NYC ) 

I was absolutely tired but I had to woke up at 10:30 am so the check out and leave the hostel to change it and go at the Hi Hostel NYC which is a bit far well I had to change two train to go there, I got there at 1 pm but my room wasn’t ready so I stayed in the common area and I ordered some sushi to eat and I decided to rest all day and don’t go to work in the evening. So finally at 4 pm I could do the check in and I went to sleep immediately and I slept till the day after in the morning basically, I was very exhausted by those days that I went back to work which I don’t used to it anymore and I organise a bit the plane for those days like what to do and visit how many days should I work, when go back to Italy all those details.

DAY 9 – Sunday 19.06.22

( Night at: HI NYC Hostel )

( 11 September Memorial for the Twin Towers ) 

I woke up like at 9 am very sleeping but since is sunny I really wanted to visit the city so I woke up went to McDonald’s for breakfast and than I decided to go to visit the Brooklyn bridge but I exchange metro in Times Square where I get off and I went to do a bit of shopping and than I kept going to the Brooklyn bridge where I took few pics but was definitely too crowded to I walked toWall Street going to see the Charging Bull also this one too crowded so I just got a hot dog random truck in the financial district. Than I walked to the 9/11 memorial which is very impressive and sad and I didn’t get into the museum because I didn’t want to spend other money and than I visited the St. Paul  Chapel adding by City hall Park and Civic Center arriving in Chinatown which is really impressive honestly and I liked it and just next to it there is Soho and Little Italy. Than I catch the metro to 42 st back to Times Square stop at the Taco Bell Cantina for dinner and than I walked to Times Square for the sunset and I stayed around there to take few pics I loved it it was super nice I loved it by night and than I went back to the hostel to sleep.

DAY 10 – Monday 20.06.22

( Night at: Q4 Hotel, Long Island )

( New York Times newspaper ) 

I woke up at like around 9 am and I went for breakfast at Community Food & Juice and than I walked around the Morningside heights and than I visited the Columbia University where I called my friends Chiara and Sara and than I went to the St. John Cathedral and walk around Harlem. 

I took the metro to the Circle Line Landmarks that starts at Pier 83 walking through the Hudson yards till arriving at the Vessel and next to it the is the big mall where I went inside to get the lunch at Shake Shak. After in the noon I walked  through the High Line till the Little Island and visiting the Chelsea market. Than I got into the metro to go at the One World Trade Center to get up 7:20 pm to watch the sunset which it was absolutely spectacular seeing all Manhattan and New Jersey from the top when the sun goes down, definitely amazing. Later I got into the metro again and I went back to the hostel to sleep tired from all the day around.

DAY 11 – Tuesday 21.06.22

( Night at: Q4 Hotel, Long Island )

( The Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh, MOMA NYC )

I woke up at 11 am felling very sick and tired but I got ready and I decided to visit the Museum Of Modern Art but before when I was leaving the hostel I met one of my French coworker which actually is the only one that I’m in touch with, it was so surprising and I didn’t even that she’s staying here, so we stopped to chat a bit and than I took the Metro to the city Center and I went to the Moma museum which it coast 25$ but is definitely worth it. Than I went upstairs to have lunch at the Terrace Cafe it was very nice, nice view and relaxing, I got Mac’n cheese which is something that you have to try if your in America I think and I really liked it actually is just like our pasta pasta in the Owen. Than I walk a bit passing by again Bryant park which I love it and than I reach Macy’s Mall the biggest Mall in the World, I went to Sugar to buy some candies which is my favourite things to do and I did it in San Diego as well last month. After I went to Zara to get some nice clothes to change and then I took the metro back to the hostel to chill relax and figured it out with the memory of my phone and by 10 on I went to sleep. 

DAY 12 – Wednesday 22.06.22

( Night at: Q4 Hotel, Long Island )

( Guggenheim Museum, NYC ) 

I woke up at 9:30 am got ready and I went to take the Metro to the Guggenheim Museum which it open at 11 am I had to do a long queue and than I got in, it cost 25$ and wow the museum is amazing I defiantly love it, synch an amazing building and I liked also all the paintings that they have. Than I went to took the Metro again to go to Times Square to the Moulin Rouge where the show starts 2 pm and finished almost at 5 pm. It was really nice I didn’t know the story behind and everything, very romantic story a bit to much but it was absolutely good the dancers the singers all the choreography was absolutely beautiful. Than I went back to the hostel because it was raining, I wanted to go out for dinner but all the places are booked so I just stayed in the kitchen of the hostel ordering Taco Bell and than I went to sleep.

DAY 13 – Thursday 23.06.22

( Night at: Q4 Hotel, Long Island )

( Metropolitan museum of art and history, New York ) 

I woke up pretty late like at 10 am and the weather was very bad actually, Lily texted me to go out to do a brunch together near from where we live and so we went somewhere near the hostel just to stop with the train to get few pancakes and we chat a bit. Than she went back to the hostel to sleep because she has to work in the evening and I went to the Metropolitan museum of art and history it was nice I totally liked it and I got a chance to pay it half price because I arrived an hour before was closing so it was free I didn’t pay well supposed to bean offer but the woman gives me back the money.  After the museum I went to the Central Park where I walk a bit around but the weather seems very bad was very cloudy and than I stopped at McDonald the first that I saw and than I went back to the hostel that started to rain I chilled a bit and I went to sleep.

DAY 14 – Friday 24.06.22

( Night at: Q4 Hotel, Long Island )

 ( Armani Restaurant 5th Avenue, NYC ) 

I woke up very early because today the weather supposed to be very good, I took the metro and I stopped to do a bit of shopping at H&M and in a sportive clothes store than I keep going with the metro to Brooklyn hights walking thru Prospect park and the Dumbo area and took pictures around, I crossed the Brooklyn Bridge which it was pretty quiet so I could took few pictures around there than I went to the Street bull again to take a picture and I walked around Soho, Little Italy and Chinatown taking few photos around. Than I went back to the Hostel I got ready and I went out treating myself well and taking myself out for a nice drink and dinner. Fist I went to the Life Rooftop Central Park for a nice drink and than I went for dinner at Armani Restaurant at 9:15 pm which it was an experience very nice and elegant and after that I took the Metro to walk back to the Hostel.

DAY 15 – Saturday 25.06.22

( Night at: Q4 Hotel, Long Island )

( State of Liberty, NYC ) 

I woke up at 6:30 am I got ready and I took the metro to go to The Battery where was the meeting point for my tour that I booked it online on Viator, at 8 am started with the tour guide walking around and explaining the history about this part of the island and the story behind the Statue of Liberty as well, and at 9 am I got into the boat to the Liberty Island it was a very quick ride and I got there with the first boat so was pretty quiet the island, perfect to take few pics around and than I went to the cafe to get a sandwich for breakfast and than I keep exploring the island and later I took the ferry to Ellis Island which is also very short the travel and that island is famous for having the museum of immigration which it was quite interesting and by 12 pm I went back to the hostel grab something to eat on the way and than I got ready to go to the pool party with Lily. She went there earlier I got there at 3:30 pm and the place was super cool I loved it called Somewhere Nowhere, it was very beautiful and chilled after the pool party we went to an other party with the promoter next the bridge at Brooklyn Processing it was like an after party of the Gay Pride which it was pretty cool and we enjoyed the time there and than me and Lily we took an Uber back to the Hostel to go to sleep.

DAY 16 – Sunday 26.06.22

( Night at: Q4 Hotel, Long Island )

( NYC pride parade 2022 with Lindsay ) 

I woke up at 8 am I got ready make up and dressed and I went to time square to do a shooting, there r few photographs around and they take pictures, and I quit walk to Central Park to  Bethesda Terrace and than for lunch I meet up wit Lily and we eat at Empire Hotel Rooftop Bar and than we walked around the city to follow the Pride parade and than around 5 pm we went back to the Hostel we stayed a bit together and than as a last night I’ve done nothing because I ll have the bus early the day after so I just packed chill and I went to sleep.

DAY 17 – Monday 27.06.22

( Night at: HI Boston Hostel )

( Walking around Boston )

I woke up at 7 am I got ready too the metro to the Flixbus bus stop that leaves at 8:15 am to Boston. I arrived at South Station at 12:50 pm I was very starving so I immediately stopped at Mcdonald to eat something and than I walked to the Hostel since it was raining, luckily I could do immediately the check in so I left my things and than I went out a bit when the rain stopped and I went to Primark Old state house Faneuil Hall Marketplace and I get a slice of pizza for dinner basically and than started to rain again so I just went back to the Hostel to chill.

DAY 18 – Tuesday 28.06.22

( Night at: Auberge Alternative, Montreal )

( Following the Freedom Train in Boston ) 

I woke up very early at 6:30 am so by 7 am I was already around the city exploring it while I get something to eat at the grocery store. I started at the Boston Common where the Freedom Trail starts. So I walked through the old city passing by the Boston’s Old city Hall, Old Corner Book store, Old south meeting House, Old state house till the Fenwick Marketplace same I did yesterday but well today with the sunny weather is way better absolutely. Than I walked down to the Old North Church crossing the bridge and arriving at the Paul’s Revere Park and than from there I stated to walk back in the direction of the hostel stopping at Taco Bell to get the lunch and than I get into the hostel get my backpack and walk to the bus station to take the bus at 1 pm to Montreal. I booked the bus with Greyhound a company that I already used in other places in the US and it’s working as well in Canada. I had to do a COVID form to get into Canada and than at the border they ask me few thing which I didn’t expect and than they let me enter so I keep going with the same bus and than I arrived in Montreal at 9 pm so like 8 hours on the bus which it was a lot and I couldn’t even sleep but I did few things organising everything for Canada and when go back to Italy. One I arrived at the bus stop in Montreal I just called an Uber to go to the hostel where I did the check in, and I immediately went to sleep.