Month: September 2017
Wed 6 Sept – Central Station
Last day in New York, and we could have just sat around and re-done our packing and cases; but we still had some places on our ‘to-do list’. So we went first to look at the Rockefeller centre. Its actually a collection of buildings around a small-ish square that famously houses an ice-rink in winter,…
Tue 5 Sept – Coney Island
The last full day of the holiday, so we decided to go to Coney Island. We took the metro again, which took a while. The station at Coney Island is interesting as it seems to have been extended several times, and now overhangs the road quite a lot. The station one stop up the line…
Mon 4 Sept – Liberty Park and Island
We didn’t look early enough for booking a trip to the Statue of Liberty from the Manhattan side, so we decided to go via the Liberty State Park in New Jersey as they still had ‘pedestal’ tickets available. As it turned out we are glad that we did. The view across to Manhattan from the…
Sun 3 Sept – Walking Bridges
Another walk across New York. This time starting in Greenpoint which is the most northern part of Brooklyn, and into Manhatton via the Williamsburg bridge. There does seem to be a ‘thing’ about proper big murals, some just plain arty, and some which are simply commercial adverts, such as for current films or Dell laptops:…
Sat 2 Sept – Guggenheim
After a bit of a lie-in, we went to visit the iconic Guggenheim museum. The building itself is amazing, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. We saw some of the drawings in the exhibition at MoMA during our previous few days in New York. The main gallery is a continuous helical path that rises around the…
Fri 1 Sept – Crop circles
On Friday, we headed off early in the morning to the airport for the return flight to New York. Debbie photographed some of the fields below that are irrigated by rotating booms that create distinctive green circles in the otherwise rather barren landscape: By the time we got to New York, it was getting quite…
Thurs 31 Aug – Goodbye Jennie
We completed our clearing up of the RV (Jennie, as we were told by the visitors book) and headed down from Fort Collins to Denver – a mere 70 miles or so. We moved all our bags into our hotel room and then watched as they drove away ‘our RV’. This is probably a good…
Wed 30 Aug – Back to Colorado
Our final full day in the RV. Having done a good distance yesterday, we did not have too far to go. Just another few hundred miles on the interstate. Not a lot to see, just roads and lorries and a few road signs. We did end up at another KOA campsite – quite a large…
Tues 29 Aug – Back to large Plains
The road south from the Tetons took us back through Jackson and the hills and valleys further south. Almost immediately we found several sets of roadworks where the road is down to a single lane. It seems common to have people controlling the traffic with those ‘lollipop’ signs. Not too bad on this journey though,…
Mon 28 Aug – Tetons
We got up early in the morning to watch the sunrise hit the Tetons. It was really quite cold, and the sky was a bit hazy still, from the wildfires in Montana and Idaho, so the sunrise wasn’t as good as it could have been. But we did see an otter out for an early…