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Day 3 - New York City
... election - they'd taken over the space out front by the ice rink and called it 'Democracy Plaza'. We darted past all that and found the start of the observation deck tour inside - went up a gazillion floors in a lift while nicely sandwiched up against all the other tourists! The view at the top was totally worth it though - amazing sights of central park, empire state and chrysler building as well as the statue of liberty way in the distance. Asked a guy to take a photo of ...
Pittsfield to New York - end of tour
... who were flying out to different destinations. Newark airport is bigger than JFK, has a monorail system and is circular, we had to go round and round to drop off at terminals A,B&C, and a lot of it is under construction.
Continued on into New York via highways, bridges and a tunnel, right into ...
WJW's Introduction to The Lincoln Highway
... Highway 30 as it traverses Amish Country, Gettysburg, the site of The Civil War’s most important battle, then marching westwards towards Pittsburgh, with a heritage similar to Glasgow. From Pittsburgh it brushes a few miles of West Virginia before travelling directly across Ohio and Indiana. The highway deliberately undercut Chicago via Joliet, Illinois to avoid congestion (I won’t, I’d like to explore ...
Hello Met, have we met?
... building that cover different time periods and different immigrants. Martha and I took the Sweatshop workers tour, which took us through the second floor of 97 Orchard. The first apartment we toured was untouched, left exactly the way it was when the original owners boarded up the building in 1935. The apartment had 20 different layers of wall paper on the walls and 10 different layers of paint, and items left behind in that apartment and elsewhere in the building were ...
Sweet or sour ? ... Breathtaking
... surprised by a thunderstorm and head back to Harlem. We then go to a very cool Jazz bar, where we can all drink in peace some beers, eat delicious food and enjoy life Jazz music.
Monday is my last day on the American continent. After the check out, we go to the public library. This is a beautiful building with incredible rooms and a nice exposition hall (this time about fast eating in New York). Around 17 I go to the JFK airport. I am ...