We, my youngest daughter and I, like to travel to Boston from Manhattan on Fung Wah bus www.fungwah.com . It makes for interesting travel and we pay all of $60 round trip for two. Fung Wah leaves from Chinatown. No rules and regulations. Just show up, buy a ticket, board the bus and away you go. Fung Wah has given its all through the years to find a place in the bus world. Now they’ve moved from Chinatown in Boston to a spot at South Station. It’s very convenient.
This year Thanksgiving dinner for us is in Baltimore, Md. And to get from NYC to there my daughter found a similar mode of transportation to that of Fung Wah in the form of Apex Bus. Hooray! To make sure all is as it should be, I took a dry run by way of the F train to East Broadway to find Apex Bus. I walked two blocks to where number 88 East Broadway should be, and there it was. Well, that’s not quite how it happened. I walked two blocks from the subway station passing many Chinese stores. I back tracked a few times, looking for 88 East Broadway, and finally ducked into what looked like a mini mall. There stood a traffic cop. I told him I couldn’t find 88 East Broadway. He smiled and said, “Come on.” (I’d found a good guy). Around the corner were a few bus companies with their buses lined up and Apex was the last of them-across Division on Forsythe Street. Before reaching the Apex, the workers for the other bus companies tried to convince me to travel with them. They were very aggressive. But I stood my ground, and finally got to Apex. I saw a Chinese woman with tickets in her hand standing on the sidewalk next to the buses. Her English was limited; my Chinese non-existent, but her big smile was beckoning, and there was enough communication to purchase two round-trip tickets to Baltimore for $70.
Time to go to Chelsea Market at 75 9th Avenue www.chelseamarket.com . Chelsea Market is one big building for food buying. Everything needed for tonight’s dinner, for entertaining, or for a quick meal, is there. Everything. And it’s all really, really delectable. I’m thinking dessert for Thanksgiving Day, and for this occasion, Fat Witch Bakery, buonItalia, Manhattan Fruit Exchange and Sarabeth’s will be perfect.
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