Day 26 – The last day! How did this happen?? Why aren’t we staying in this country for another three weeks? At least our flight doesn’t leave until evening so we have the whole day to explore. But there’ll be no more motels, no more long drives, no more seeing fantastic new landscapes every other [...]
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Coast-to-coast —
Everything about the trip through the US!
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The Last Night
Destination: Empire State Building! One would think it visible from a distance, but from the streets it’s really only visible in glimpses because all the other buildings are high-rises in their own right. Standing at the base it was a dramatic view to look up though with the top floors illuminating the surrounding clouds.
Uptown is where it’s at!
Day 25 – Rain. Not every day in NY is a blue sky, especially not at this time of the year.
The Big Apple
Day 24 – 1.6 million people squeezed onto an island just 60 km². That’s crazy, and it shows. Manhattan is a dizzyingly vertical cirty, with huge skyscrapers vying for attention and every road an impossibly straight trench between imposingly high buildings. With just two-and-a-half day in New York we have to work efficiently to see [...]