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New England: Revere & Walgreen's |
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Written by Stephen Baines
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Tuesday, 29 June 1999 |
Apologies in advance, you will get this after I land. Tuesday was a fairly uneventful day. I slept in & got up for breakfast. The news & papers reported that it was going to be a stinker weatherwise. Once again it was to be 80's & very muggy. I chanced it & went up the road into Revere. I popped into Walgreen's, & put my photo's in for developing and they'd be ready in an hour or so.
I took the opportunity to have another look around Revere, & take a few shots. 10 minutes later I was beat. The temperature was OK, but far too muggy. I could just feel myself draining. I went back to Walgreen's & passed the time in the cool of the store.
Eventually the photos were ready, at which point I went through the ritual of explaining where I was from, and no Nottingham is not in Scotland, and I certainly don't have a Scottish accent. I battled with the heat and made it back to the (air conditioned) hotel & flopped. I then spent the afternoon flipping between CNN, MTV & VH1.
Evening came, and I started to pack... Why does everything increase in size between initial packing and repacking? I have bought nothing extra in Boston!
So, a quiet evening, an early night, and up bright and breezy in the morning. The news reported that in Boston due to it being so muggy there had been record leccy consumption because everyone was turning on the AC, & a major brownout was narrowly avoided. Just as well - I'd have melted away! |
