New York, United States Travel Blogs

We finally got out of Orlando
Mar 9, 2005

We finally made it to JFK. We tried to use the voucher that the airport had given us but the Taxi driver refused to take it. I guess we were supposed to give it to the booth at the airport and they would give it to the driver. So we are already out the ...

Day 29: Home, Sweet Home
Aug 6, 2005 (18 photos)

... we ran in to use the bathroom and walk Oreo. Finally, at 9:30, we reached Staten Island.  We were back in New York City.  There was some traffic on the Staten Island Expressway, but nothing too bad.  At 10:00 we went over ...

The adventure continues
Feb 20, 2006 (2 photos)

Cory and I arrived at JFK and tried to get some info about Paulie. By the time that we got to JFK Paul should have gotten on the next one. The first person at the airport that we went to said that they couldn't give us any information. Having worked guest ...

Pre-Trip Part I: The History of the Trip
May 6, 2005

... Orlando, you may ask?  With lot's of planning!  We finally decided to go to Florida while at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey last July.  We used to go on vacation every year, but when we got our dog in 1998 mom decided that she didn ...

Pre-Trip Part II: Adding a Few Attractions
May 25, 2005

Well, we're 45 days away and I'm ridiculously excited!  The time is going by pretty fast, believe it or not.  It seems as if the weeks are flying by.  I have three weeks of school left - next week we have Monday off for Memorial Day, the ...

Pre-Trip Part IV: Making Some Changes
Jun 5, 2005

Just when I think I'm done with the major planning, I always find something to change.  What can I say, I love planning vacations! So, first of all, I changed around some of our priority seating's.  On our first morning in Orlando we were going to eat at ...

Pre-Trip Part V: Changing Our Priority Seating's
Jun 7, 2005

This afternoon I decided to show mom the restaurants I had picked.  Her most commonly said phrase? "That's so expensive!"  Yes, I did pick expensive restaurants.  Most of them she was fine with - good food, reasonable prices, fun atmosphere ...

Pre-Trip Part III: Shopping for Toiletries
Jun 1, 2005

... got a few little things but I wanted to buy them and get it out of the way.  Now all I have left to buy is some new shirts, a few more toiletries, and a few things that I'll buy once I get down to Orlando. I made my packing list and wow... I have ...

New York New York
Jul 27, 2005 (26 photos)

My experience in New York so far has been very positive. Stan Shaffer, the fashion photographer I assist just had his photography exposition on July 20 at PM Lounge, a hot spot nightclub in the Meat Packing District of NYC. His new work is amazing. ...

NYC in September
Sep 10, 2006 (61 photos)

... August flew by quite fast. I was busy working at the photo studio and shooting freelancing assignments. I shot a beautiful wedding in New Jersey. I also took portraits for R&B singer Bryan Ellis for his new CD. We visited our friends from Paris in ...

I Heart New York
May 19, 2008 (54 photos)

... playground for adults, almost the antithesis to Disneyland, which, I'm sure, is fun if you're young with younger sensibilities. Firstly, New York really truly looks like it does in the movies. This, you may think is a bad thing, because then when you ...

Layover in New York
Mar 7, 2006 (1 photos)

... the free stuff? No one gave us anything!" It is amazing how a smile, a good mood plus a little flexibility makes everyones life better, including your own.   Back in the states and totally exhausted we get ready to fly back to Orlando.

Niagara Falls & Wet Woby
Sep 5, 2008 (73 photos)

It rained pretty much all the way across Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York State on our way to Niagara Falls. We think it was the last remaining bands of rain from hurricane Gustav. We stayed at 4 Mile Creek Campground where the British fought with the ...

Leaving, finally... maybe!
Jan 12, 2008 (4 photos)

... next to us is wearing a full plaid suit, scarf and hat with a long gray beard to "match" and I consider offering him my new shirt which would have matched his outfit amazingly.   I decide this would be rude and focus on what I need to do to ...

New York Snow
Dec 6, 2005 (60 photos)

... home to us for the last 6 months and have been so helpful. The dogs Rocky and Scarlet are amazing little guys. I have a new series of photos I am working on...trying to get a gallery show in NYC. I am still shooting fashion stories and have been ...

Final shopping and sight seeing in NYC!!
Jun 21, 2008 (19 photos)

... named it twice, even though it is actually called Manhattan!....I digress.  You can spot people who have never been to New York before, they are the ones walking round , mouths wide open, looking straight up without any awareness of others around them ...

New York Pin
Oct 6, 2007

NY Pin

Around Yulan and Songluo villages
Apr 5, 2007 (51 photos)

... when is became too cold to bare. They are students at a police academy. At noon we walk to Songluo village and a relative new national trail with the village's name. The trail is really very nice, only 2 or 3 km long through dense tropical forest ...

This is the End
Apr 22, 2005

I do not bring back from a journey quite the same self that I took. Somerset Maugham It was one hundred and eleven days and it was better than I imagined. Now it's over. My paradigms however have shifted irrevocably. In that time I took nine ...

The Big Apple
Jun 2, 2007

Took a mid-day flight on United out of LAX to JFK on the 31st. It was the first leg of my 'round the world' ticket so I got to sit in Business Class. Sat next to a middle-aged man on the plane traveling on business. We did the usual obligatory chit-chat ...

New York, New York!!
Mar 26, 2006

... to New York. Luckily the flight was quite empty so I could spread out a little and attempt to get some kip...... So I arrived in New York JFK a little worse for wear. I had my hostel booked but no transport, so the first job was to get that sorted - ...

Start spreading the news, we're leaving today
Oct 23, 2004 (13 photos)

... (as usual)(.) After a loop-de-loop on a double-decker bus is was time for our piece de resistance ... a helicopter ride around New York. The backpacker budget was finally blown to smithereens in the final week. £30 per week budget ... RIP. $97 bought ...

Thanks for all the support, and a final farewell
Sep 5, 2006

... hard job, but also unbelievably worthwhile. From DC, I made my way to by bus to New York and spent my last night in the United States in a swank manhattan restaurant with Lauren Kopple and John. Honestly trendy New York restaurants are probably as ...

New York, New York
Mar 24, 2005

Okay I have been insulted. What a welcome back to the states!!!! LOL. Mind you at this point we have been traveling for 30 + hours, I have taken out my contacts and I am wearing my glasses. I haven't bathed and I am not looking my best but I wish the ...

The Day Before
Jul 8, 2005 (1 photos)

At around 5:00 we ordered pizza, chicken rolls and calzone, and ate at 5:30. As I was hanging out and waiting for the food to come my throat started to hurt pretty badly and I got really nervous. It felt like a mix between when my throat hurts from my ...

Its Up to You ......
Jan 16, 2007 (15 photos)

... so far. Thursday Packed up again and said goodbye to more people.  Has been great to see people we know and make new friends which will hopefully also reintegrate us into normal society.  I have to say the weirdest thing for me to get used ...

The Wheels on the Bus go Round and Round
May 9, 2007 (16 photos)

I promise that I will run out of Playschool titles soon... Thank you to all my friends and family who have sent birthday wishes, especially those not mentioning numbers. The actual day was a non-birthday, as we are going out on the 10th, so the emails ...

Avoiding travel scams
Sep 15, 2008

... scams just published this week by the Sun Herald: If there is a sucker born every day, there is probably also a new travel scam. Thousands of travellers every year are parted from their luggage or money and many of these incidents can be prevented ...

In the USA for 6 months
Oct 10, 2007 (12 photos)

2 days in Lake Placid admiring the fall colours. It was raining the afternoon I arrived. I walked around Lake Placid in the rain. Had pizza for supper. Ordered a medium and I had enough leftovers for a week. Don't know what a large would have looked like. ...

New York, New York!
Jul 29, 2006 (24 photos)

... cheap to pay to go to Ellis or Libety islands we caught the (free) Staton Island Ferry which gives you really good views of New York, The Statue of Liberty (which is surprisingly far from Manhatten) and Elis Island. It was also nice because you get to see ...