Where can I buy shark meat? -

In Boston.

The Super 88 Market. There are a few through out Boston. One particularly that I KNOW sells shark meat is by my house. It s off of Mass. Ave near the South Bay Mall. Super 88 s are a popular Chinese Market.

Savenor s Market (on Charles Ave, just across from MGH) often has stranger sea foods and meats. (True story- first time I went in there, they were giving away samples of kangaroo jerky.)Make sure you call ahead, though- their products rotate, so not everything is always available.

try a seafood market in Chinatown

C-Mart on Washington Street in Chinatown.

I think if you look around in Chinatown you will find it.

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What are some fun things to do in Hollywood ? -

I m going there next weekend for this thing i m probably gonna have a lot of down time,so i wanted to know of some fun things to do while i m there.i ve been there before when i went, i saw the Hollywood sign, went to that building (i forgot the name of it) right by the Hollywood sign, the Hollywood Walk of Fame. any other ideas ?

well most of the studio tours are closed on weekends so other than the usual tourist crap that s out there you ll have to pays yous money and takes yous pick.I find hollywood seedy at best and why anybody wants to go there is beyond me. I mean the millions and millions they spent refurbishing the place. maybe the auto show will still be on .. GO THERE!!!

Universal StudiosHollywood Blvd.Hollywood Wax MuseumGrauman s Chinese TheaterRipley s Believe it or Not MuseumPinks hot dogsStudios: Warner Bros Studio Tour, NBC Studios, Culver Studios, CBS Studios, Paramount Studio Tour

Avoid Hollywood at all costs. Head for the beach (although eating there, aside from the Malibu Jack-in-the-Box is pricey) take a cooler, and enjoy the sand.

I really enjoyed the Paramount Studios tour when I went last summer.

go gambleing and get arrested for tryen to see the playboy mansion lololol jk go to the premier tommarow night....

You could go to Pinks they have the best tasting hot dogs !!! Its on the corner of Melrose and La brea

I need some help and/or advice for a trip to the USA? -

We are coming to the USA in March. Flying to New York and then working our way to Nashville for a George Thorogood concert. We are then going to New Orleans and Memphis. Any advice on good cheap accommodation. Could anybody tell us also, how much are motorway toll charges incase we hire a car, the price of petrol and the average cost of eating out. Any other advice would be welcome.Thank you.

If you are only looking to sleep in the room, IE, you don t care about alot of amenities or luxury accommodations, I would stick to Motel 6 as they are comfortable and cheap but not fancy. They are all over so you should see plenty of them along your trip. You can always go online to check out locations or get a guide at any location:http://www.motel6.com/Gas prices range greatly but I think the national average is $2.60/gal. You can check this site as it narrows it down by area. Go for local places rather than chains as you pay extra for clean bathrooms, squeegees and water, etc...http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum��Eating out will vary depending if you want fast food or sit down. If you go to restaurants like Denny s and Applebee s, etc then I would say you could get away with $20 + tip for lunches and dinners, provided you get only entrees, no salads, desserts or drinks. Stick to water in restaurants as a soda or iced tea is like $2 each. If you aren t sure about prices, then ask to see a menu before you are seated, most places have no problem with that.

Cheap bus or train from DC to raleigh, NC? -

Amtrak is sold out everyday besides thanksgiving.Are there any other bus companies besides greyhound that run this route? And cost $50 or less each eay (100 or less total)?

These people travel from NYC to Raleigh. But they have the absolute worst times ever. They are only $30/way though.http://www.gotobus.com/raleigh_nc/

How will The New Yorkers know im not from there and how do i make sure to fit in? -

New York is a melting pot like the USA itself, don t worry about fitting in, just remember where you came from and be yourself. I still say To Go or For Here even though the rest of the city says To Go or To StayI still say pop instead of sodaTake who you are from home and keep it with you, it will be your only link to sanity when the sound of horns and droves of busy people in the city make you feel like you don t belong or can t stand to be around the noise and crowds.New York will accept you or hate you regardless of what you do. Just like anywhere else in the world you will gravitate towards people with similar or compatible thinking as you and find your set of friends no problem.You can post on craigslist to find friends if you aren t the type to just walk up to strangers.Places like McSorelys Ale House or Zucco Le French diner sort of put you in with strangers because there isnt enough room for people to have separate tables, so you are forced to talk to strangers, which is fun.

You don t need to fit in here. Just be who you are. Besides, if you try to fit it, it can make it look more obvious that you are not from here. Just act completely natural and all that.Besides, since NYC is full of tourists anyway, we are used to having large amounts of people here that are not from New York.

We don t care about people origins, because they came from every where. We may kid you about it, but just clean fun. Just be yourself. We like self confidence.

Be sure to pronounce Houston street How-ston.

Well why lie anyways, we New Yorkers welcome people from anywhere.

If you live in Manhattan and act like the generic clone of the many there.

We can always tell. It s the secret handshake.

why do you NEED to fit in....just be who you are.

If my boyfriend graduates SOI in Camp Lejeune on December 1st, will he get off all december because of xmas? -

His MOS trainging is combat engineer if that changes anything

Not necessarily. He serves at the pleasure of the Corps. Most grads get some amount of leave between duty stations, but it is based on the needs of the Corps, and how much in demand persons in his MOS are needed.The next time you contract your boyfriend please tell him that there is an old, fat Viet Nam vet, and his family saying Thank You for his service to the country. We appreciate all the the military does to keep us all safe. We will prey that he completes his service safely.

San Francisco residents, was this ever possible? And would you want it? -

While fooling around with Yahoo Maps recently, I was looking at the south end of the Bay Area and saw a railroad spur line running from Watsonville through Santa Cruz to approximately Half Moon Bay, where it disappeared. Did this line ever go all the way up the west side of the SF peninsula into the city? It seems to me that if it did, it would be a nice commuter train ride for people to get from the city to the beaches. Thanks for answering.

What you re interested in is the Ocean Shore Railroad. The goal was to have a railroad from San Francisco down the coast to Santa Cruz. The goal was to make a lot of money hauling produce up from the Santa Cruz area farms and vacationers/sightseers down from San Francisco. They also planned to develop resorts along the route. El Grenada, just north of Half Moon Bay, was originally planned to be a major resort town. The only hint at what they had in mind still there is the interesting layout of the streets.They started building from south from San Francisco and with the cooperation of the Southern Pacific (who also wanted a line on that route) north from Santa Cruz in 1905. The railroad was never completed. They made it from San Francisco to just south of Half Moon Bay and from Santa Cruz up as far as Swanton just north of Davenport.Lots of people took the railroad down from San Francisco but they had money problems from the very beginning. The 1906 earthquake destroyed a lot of their work, slides were always a problem, a lot of money was wasted building two tracks and both an electric system and steam powered system, they never got as much of the freight traffic they wanted because the adoption of the automobile and creation of roads were much faster than anyone anticipated. They finally went out of business in the 20 s but the tracks in San Francisco and between Davenport and Santa Cruz continued to operate by a number of different railways until fairly recently.If you want a great meal and a taste of history you should go to Vallemar Station. It s one of the original Ocean Shore stations, now a restaurant, and they make an awesome prime rib. In the entry there is a diorama of the Ocean Shore Railway.Would I want it today? Maybe but probably not. It would be a lot of fun to take the rail down to some of the more distant San Mateo County beaches but if the rail had never gone out of business and didn t have all the problems that it did I imagine that the coastside would be an entirely different place. I think it would have been over-developed with a lot more houses, more dams in the canyons to store water for all the residents, less of a country feeling, less wildlife, and a lot of pollution.

The rail line you see does run up the coast from Watsonville, and terminates in Davenport, 10 miles north of Santa Cruz. Until recently it served a cement plant and quarry operation for years. Currently the cement plant appears to be defunct for various reasons and some transportation and green groups want to buy the tracks from Watsonville to Davenport for a bike path and possibly a smaller commuter rail; this is all pending though.In the late 1800 and through 1950 s there were smaller scale trains in the mountains used to transport lumber and such. But no major railway existed between Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay,(I could be wrong) or SF for that matter. I doubt it ever will, it d be nice, but much or the coastal lands are in trust with preservation and enviormental organizations, and there are commercial and residential growth restrictions from Pescadero on up to Half Moon Bay, so don t expect any rail service between. Ironically, I live at the northern most tip of Santa Cruz and those tracks are about 50 yards from my deck. Low and behold a Airship (www.airshipventures.com) is giving tours to the Monterey bay.

It s doubtful that it ever did because the Pacifica/Devil s Slide region has only been traversed by Hwy 1 (Pacific Coast Freeway); now they started tunneling through it to bypass the treacherous roads of Hwy 1 by Devil s Slide. Half Moon Bay is just west a ways from San Mateo, which is still a good 10-15 miles from San Francisco beaches. CalTrans has trains that run from SF to SJ. The tracks you saw are likely freight tracks; I have gotten stuck waiting for the trains to cross out around Watsonville before.

i think it went all the way down to LA, because i saw a bunch of tracks on highway 1/PCH when i was there a couple years ago. yea it would be nice to have now

A good portion of Highway 1 at one time was railroad right-of-way. But this was back around the 19th century.