I’m standing at the corner of Don’t Walk and Don’t Walk

Greetings from Boston. This is a city full of bad drivers with short temper. I’m included to this category, at least accoding to my wife. And she is usually right in these things… I really don’t catch the idea behing keeping all pedestrian street lights in Don’t Walk mode, until all of them are released in Walk mode for extremely short while. There you dash in between of cars, trying to get cross the road and not get smashed while doing so.

Anyhow and despite the traffic, we managed to get back from short trip to Cape Cod. We saw the beaches and the gay mecca, Provincetown. Of course, a bowl of clam chowder was also part of the regime.

During the trip, we found out that Amazon.com had screwed up our order for some stuff to be delivered in New York. We are going there tomorrow, so time is running out… After trying a few times with their system and calling to Finland to check that our credit cards are still valid and have enough balance, Amazon.com wouldn’t still co-operate. I’m sitting now in Kinko’s, inputting credit card numbers once again to Amazon. After writing this article, I’ll check the status and maybe even call them — I found their customer service number from the Internet, but not from their site…

Otherwise, the holiday has been good for so far. We visited today a huge outlet complex some dozens of miles away from Boston downtown. Spend some bucks in Burberry and GAP outlets. What finds! Tomorrow, we’ll take train to NYC for more shopping and museums.