Following the Boston Chapter Launch at City Year’s Headquarters for Idealism, Sean and I hit the hay, woke up early Tuesday morning, met up at South Station, picked up our Discovery Passes, and spent the majority of the day traveling across New York State. My new friend Twitter caught most of the day’s action including an on-board arrest, Border Patrol asking about our citizenship (separate incident), and a visit to Eerie, Pennsylvania. It was quite the first full day of travel…
We were supposed to have a Verizon Wireless card to share between our laptops but - minor setback - Sean lost it back in Boston somewhere between the bus terminal and the bus. No biggie over the long-term, but he was totally bamboozled. The nature of our work is that we’re traveling, preparing, documenting, Twittering, improving, emailing, planning, blogging, organizing, downloading, editing, uploading, and sleeping a little (if we’re lucky). Access to the Internet is rather essential to keep the momentum. Welcome, friends, to life on the road!
Angela Barrett, Program Director at City Year Cleveland, picked us up at the Greyhound Station when we finally got into town at 10:30pm. The temperature was 68 degrees - gorgeous in contrast to the New England weather we had experienced just hours before. Angela brought us to her home on the West Side, let us play with her oversized television remote control, blew up an air mattress for Sean, and made us feel right at home. A few hours later we were up, showered, back out the door, and rushing to the Greyhound station to get tickets for our 4:30am bus to Columbus. We snoozed on the ride down.
In Columbus at 7:00am, we found a Starbucks so we could get online with my T-Mobile HotSpot. We had a fun interaction with the baristas - who told us to grab scrumptious breakfast sandwiches from next door - before taking care of the most urgent items on our list, doing a conference call with ServeNext Director Zach Maurin in Washington, D.C., reworking our presentation for more intimate crowds, and proceededing next door to City Year Columbus for our 10:00am roundtable…
Blog entries from Columbus and Cleveland roundtables coming soon!
