Chinatown Bus to Boston

Coastal cities around New York are accessable with "Chinatown Busses" which are run by Chinese operators and leave from Manhattan's Chinatown. They're cheap, fast, comfortable and reliable.

Our first of several 36-hours-in-a-city trips was with LuckyStar up north to Boston, which had the extra benefit of an eat-as-much-as-you-like Chinese buffet for US$5 en route. We stayed with Carola and Dirk, friends from Berlin.


Boston is a pleasant mix of a European and North American cities, sprinkled with top notch universities. This is the Frank Gerry Strata building at MIT; we also toured Harvard. Boston was a good five degrees colder than New York; it felt like winter there for the first time.