New York - 3rd Day

I had planned to spend the day walking around Central Park; I ventured out upon this mission, but it fairly immediately began to rain harder and harder so after only an hour or so I gave up and headed for shelter.

The time I did spend in the park was pleasant, even though wet. Despite the rain, there was a fair amount of activity - peoplewise, an abundance of both joggers and dogwalkers, and animalwise, ducks in the ponds and squirrels running about the place. I was able to get some good photographs, even without the snow that I had been hoping for.

An algorithm Chase taught me once for finding MacDonalds applies here for finding Starbucks: 1) pick road 2) proceed along road until you find Starbucks; so shortly after leaving the park I found myself with a large cup of coffee in dry warmth at 86th and Columbus. I spent some time going through photographs of the previous three days (several hundred, but with many duplicates and blurred ones) and writing notes in travel journal.

On the way back to the hostel, around 99th and Amsterdam I found a bakery which sold me a delicious generic-meat pie; the thought of this makes me feel hungry again, and I wonder if I should venture out in search of another meal.