Welcome from the flyover states

OK so I have made it 13 and a half hours of travel without even crossing any boarders, now that is just wrong. Firstly I took the Amtrac back down to Boston, which is the usual efficient nature (OK I still haven’t forgotten the trip from NY). Then I got to the joy that is the Boston integrated public transport system. Coming off the long distance train (at the Boston Garden sports stadium) I just walked a few meters to the subway, where the train turns up in a couple of minutes, after a couple of stops get off walk to the next platform onto a train, a few stations on I get to the station by the airport, where there is a free bus that takes you to the terminal, all just too easy. Now Boston airport is really quite big. The terminal I was in was at least double the size of any airport in NZ, as I had plenty of time I went for a walk and saw the four other terminals all of which were even bigger.

The flight itself was pretty impressive, we went west over the great lakes, and really they look more like oceans from the air, then came down over Chicago it is always impressive to see a major city from the air. I then came down the farm belt, just farms for hours on end, the most notable thing is in areas where the irrigation areas cause these massive circles of green in what are obversly only marginal farm land.

Landed in Denver and this airport is truly massive, I mean there is no way to truly give you an idea of how big this place is, lets say it takes about 20 minutes to walk to the end of the terminal and then you have to catch the airports subway the five minute trip to the baggage claim area. Once I got out of this place I got the shuttle out to Boulder. This is about an half hour trip accrues a major plan, it looks a bit like the Canterbury planes back home, it is like the worst drought every, but I don’t think they think it is anything unusual around here. Randomly put over this truly epic landscape are a large number of new housing estates and condos, some of these look fill some much less so. Anyway the mountains here a pretty amazing, even compared to the good old southern alps. I am still on east coast time so I am up before the sun (how many times do I say that) so I will let you know more about this town when I actually get to see it.