Boston bride ...

Dropped my daughter at her maths camp in Newport, Rhode Island and I loved how excited she was .... who wouldn't want to spend so long on a course dedicated purely to infinities and paradoxes? Or maybe it wasn't the course content that excited her, just the thought of being away from her parents for 3 weeks. Works both ways baby!

Anyway, I'm reliving my early backpacking years and am spending the night in a youth hostel in Boston. They have surely changed in the intervening 20-odd years since I slept in a lumpy bunk bed in a dorm. Very modern and hip. Common areas look like a cross between a Starbucks cafe and the Google headquarters. It's a shame though, because all this effort in getting travellers from around the world together, and everyone is sitting by themselves plugged into their MacBook Pros (me included).