The Big Apple!!
One city I had yet to visit was New York. So after my arrival in Vancouver, I was giving my personal travel escort my flight details when I realized that I was going to be flying into New York a day early ~ I get there Wednesday, the ship gets there Thursday. Oops! Well instead of changing the ticket with only 5 days to go, I decided to get a hotel and spend the day in New York.
I had received an email from my friend Karen a few weeks earlier describing her travels to see Letterman and all of her adventures. I was quite exited to finally get there! Reading of her adventures, I wanted to do it all ~ but she had 4 days and I only had 1. So after arriving at the hotel after my red-eye flight, I headed by train from Newark into the city. I was going to take one of those hop on/hop off tour buses, but after getting out of the train station I didn't know where to find them. So I started to walk towards Times Square. Feeling a bit nervous about being in the city alone, I figured if I was walking in the crowded streets, I couldn't go too far wrong. As I became more relaxed, I decided at that point that I would take in as many 'highlights' as I could walking through the streets. What I couldn't get over was all the horns, the traffic... It is definitely a city with it's own personality and to be honest, the folks I did run into seemed to be quite nice and helpful. The guy at the train station showed me how to work the monstrocity of a machine that issues the train ticket, someone offered to take my photo in Grand Central station after she saw me doing the 'hold the camera out at arms length and smile while you snap the photo'... So I must say, the city was not as cold as I expected it to be.
The tour was going to include:
Times Square,
Rockfeller Centre,
Central Park,
Grand Central Station
and the Empire State Building.
I managed in my tour to stumble onto some unexpected stops as well ~
Radio City Music Hall,
Trump Towers
and who knew that the Gardens were above the train station.
Recognizing that I was at the end of my vacation, I was conserving pennies, so dinner was pizza from a pizza joint, although I should have had a Smokie like the guys always do on Law and Order!!
I can say it is a city I would like to go back to ~ and do it right.
I had received an email from my friend Karen a few weeks earlier describing her travels to see Letterman and all of her adventures. I was quite exited to finally get there! Reading of her adventures, I wanted to do it all ~ but she had 4 days and I only had 1. So after arriving at the hotel after my red-eye flight, I headed by train from Newark into the city. I was going to take one of those hop on/hop off tour buses, but after getting out of the train station I didn't know where to find them. So I started to walk towards Times Square. Feeling a bit nervous about being in the city alone, I figured if I was walking in the crowded streets, I couldn't go too far wrong. As I became more relaxed, I decided at that point that I would take in as many 'highlights' as I could walking through the streets. What I couldn't get over was all the horns, the traffic... It is definitely a city with it's own personality and to be honest, the folks I did run into seemed to be quite nice and helpful. The guy at the train station showed me how to work the monstrocity of a machine that issues the train ticket, someone offered to take my photo in Grand Central station after she saw me doing the 'hold the camera out at arms length and smile while you snap the photo'... So I must say, the city was not as cold as I expected it to be.
The tour was going to include:
Times Square,
Rockfeller Centre,
Central Park,
Grand Central Station
and the Empire State Building.
I managed in my tour to stumble onto some unexpected stops as well ~
Radio City Music Hall,
Trump Towers
and who knew that the Gardens were above the train station.
Recognizing that I was at the end of my vacation, I was conserving pennies, so dinner was pizza from a pizza joint, although I should have had a Smokie like the guys always do on Law and Order!!
I can say it is a city I would like to go back to ~ and do it right.
posted by Carrie @ 8:24 PM
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