My trip to NE USA will take my from NYC to Buffalo via Rochester NY, Buffalo to Chicago IL, then Cleveland OH, before coming back through Niagara Falls, and Toronto.
I seem to be writing quite a bit for each day, so use the Prev and Next links to go from day to day
I got a copy of all the photos taken on Coriander's camera, these can be viewed here.
I woke up reasonably early, given how late I got to bed, this may be a side effect of the jetlag however.
I had a bagel with ham and cheese, a banana, and a cup of coffee for breakfast. This seemed to be just what I needed. After that I set out for a wander around Central Park.
My plan had been to go down towards Strawberry Fields, however I totally failed in this, and ended up back on West Parkside. Great. I thought I would try to get to the museums on the other side instead, and so took a different path, trying to get to the east. I made it around the north playfields and ended up back on the west side.
By now I was quite bewildered. Obviously the park is full of space/time anomalies and I needed to take more care walking through it. No wonder people keep saying to avoid the park!!
I decided that the only way I was going to make it was to walk south down the west side, so this I did till I found 96th street, and then cut across the park. This proved a good plan as I soon found myself outside the Art Gallery. I checked out the price and decided against it.. for that much money I'd want to spend a whole day there, not rush about!
I made my way to times square, which was a lot smaller than I had anticipated, and full of people. I even got to see the famous (I didn't know he was famous yet) naked cowboy. I later found out he was famous as he is on a post card set!
Having now reached lunch time and walked some 3 miles, I decided I needed lunch and a cold drink (it's hot and humid here!). I made it to Appleby's and had a rather nice Chicken Caeser salad, and used my trusty recovered mobile phone to spod a bit. This proved to be good (?) fortune) as it enabled me to interrogate everyone on Brigandine as to where a good place to get clothes would be.
I thence proceeded to spend $500 on clothes!! Eeek. I must remember to shuffle some money back in to my poor over stretched credit card so that I don't have any hefty charges!
PHEW! That's done :)
Anyway, back to the diary.. after spending copious amounts on clothes, I went to the top of the Empire State building (well the 86th floor) and took lots of photos of misty cityscape, with a visibility range of next to nothing, so I'm afraid they won't be very exciting :(
My ankle somehow has become quite sore with all this trapsing, I suspect it may actually have been the flight.excercises that I failed to manage properly. At any rate, I took the subway back, I didn't feel like a 3 mile walk.
I had spaghetti and meatballs (from a tin) for dinner, since I decided I should go to a shoe string buget on general principal of having spent such a ludicrous amount of money. At least I can say that I will be fashionable at the wedding, by sporting a Calvin Klein shirt! woowoo!
I managed to get in touch with Sandy, so hopefully she will call tomorrow and say we are meeting in the morning, or on Tuesday. I can't wait, I had promised myself that if I ever came to America again (which I have) then I will meet her.. here's hoping! :)
I'll let you all know how it pans out...