Tag: Retroactive To Do List
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Weekend in Oregon
Saturday at the Ocean 1. Get picked up by Irene and Whitney in the morning. 2. Stop by Stumptown for good coffee and McDonald’s for an obligatory road trip breakfast. 3. Head south and stop in Astoria at Rogue Brewery for some fluffy-crusted sausage pizza. 4. Encounter some sleepy, some scratchy, but mostly noisy sea…
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Weekend in Vancouver
Ryan and I went on a little trip to Canada this weekend to celebrate our wedding anniversary a few days early. What a beautiful (and blazingly hot) summer weekend in the Pacific Northwest! Now time for a reverse to do list! Arrival to Vancouver 1. Drive north and stop in Everett for vermicelli bowls at…
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New York – Day 4
1. Wake up early and grab oatmeal and hashbrowns on way to subway. 2. Go to Bryant Park and learn there’s an hour wait for next ferry to Ellis Island. 3. Stand in the line in the sun and sweat. A lot. 4. Board ferry, take in views of Manhattan and Lady Liberty. 5. Speed…
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New York – Day 3
1. Sleep-in and walk to Jane Restaurant in Greenwich Village for amazing brunch. 3. Drink complimentary cocktails and eat biscuits and lobster eggs benedict. 4. Walk through Chelsea and Meatpacking District. Enjoy the relative quiet. 5. Visit Highline Park. Decide it’s worth the hype. Admire creative reuse of space. 6. Buy refreshing ice cream sandwich…
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New York – Day 2
1. Depart the mansion with Jen, Mark & Shar and drive to Queens for dim sum. 2. Eat really good shrimp balls in shark fin soup, chicken sticky rice, and dumplings. 3. Walk around and find neat Chinese bakery and tea shop (black sesame milk tea, please!). 4. Drive Jen to LGA and sit in…
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New York – Day 1
I really enjoyed Jenn’s Retroactive To Do List, so I started to make my own while in New York last weekend. I tend to over-complicate the writing process and thought I’d give this a shot instead. Hope that’s cool, Jenn! 1. Sleep in until 11am, wake up in a mansion in Long Island. 2. Have…