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Travel Blogs from New York City
Manhattan -- lights and magic!
... how "young" is my adopted state of Colorado. After doing the round trip loop on the bridge and were back on the Manhattan side of the bridge, we decided to take a water taxi to its farthest destination that was going to be within walking distance of our hotel.
Leave it to New Yorkers to always provide a little unexpected entertainment and the ferry ride was no different. As I was sitting on the back of the ...
Wife, Mom, Daughter, Cheerleader, Nurse, and 40!!!
... York. Regardless I’ll always remember that man’s kindness at a very opportune time.
We headed down the nearest subway station and took the Orange downtown to the Path which happened to be the interchange nearest to Madison Square Garden. The subway station was much more Brandi friendly as it offered restaurants, shopping, and a Starbucks where I grabbed a cup of coffee. We then headed over and took the Path which is a train that runs ...
NYC In Less Than 24 Hours
... sun by a little water feature.
Our next stop was the 9/11 memorial. This was probably the one place in New York which I was most intrigued about. Having studied American and Canadian studies at university we focused a lot on 9/11 and the war on terror. Seeing images from that awful day had been truely engrained into my brain. But literally nothing could prepare me for being there in real life and seeing the size of the area. I couldn't ...
Big City Lights
... the entrance to the metro station was completely packed with people trying to get away from Fenway.. It took us around twenty mins to get anywhere near the platform, and the heat once underground surrounded by bodies was just unbearable! Finally we were on a train back to Cambridge, where we picked up groceries and cooked a big chilli for our hosts that night. The following day we got up early to go and explore the city. We started off at the Sam Adams factory, Snellers choice ...
Daytrip around the Big Apple
... Island, the Statue of Liberty and great views of the NY skyline. Ground Zero is still a hive of construction and looks like the new towers are close to completion.
Dinner in the evening in a nice little restaurant (Sofia's) in Little Italy followed by a night visit at 11pm up the Empire State - as a by the way, the taxi that took us there was 3 years old and had 330,000 miles on the original engine - a Ford, which goes to disprove the ...