The weather is still rainy and cold! Part of us just want to head way south and get away from this, but we need to be in Baltimore/Washington DC area for Thanksgiving. Our daughters are cooking dinner for us!! This will be the first time in 30 some years that I have NOT cooked or hosted a holiday at my house. I am real excited, although I know I will still be doing some cooking. The 80 degree temperature in Tampa is quite tempting, we could just drive and drive until we get there.
Instead, we decided to visit NYC. The real close campground in Jersey City was charging $60.00 a night....to camp! Without sewer dump! So, we found one a little further northwest of Newark, up in a county park. Very secluded, wooded setting in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains and only one hour and 15 minute train ride into Penn station.
The only problem we have is the weather....again. The weather was the absolute worse, ever! It rained all day, steady, never letting up. We had to dodge puddles and splashes from the yellow cabby's as we battled the howling wind! (Andy is dictating what I write. He has been reading too many fictional novels). We saw the Empire State Building ( no sense in going up to the observation tower with the rain and poor visibility), toured through Grand Central Station (and bought our ride-all-day-subway pass), saw the Zamboni clean the ice at Rockefeller Center (yes, it was cold enough for ice and some skaters!), amazed by Times Square and the only "ray of light" from the neon signs, then it was over to Central Park and a look at The Dakota building (Yoko Ono's home and where John Lennon was shot), the World Trade Center site (a solemn experience) and then to Battery Park to view the Statue of Liberty. As you can tell by the photo's, the weather got worse as the afternoon went on. Miss Liberty was hardly visible and we stayed long enough for a few photos then grabbed the train back to Jersey, during peak time!
The only problem we have is the weather....again. The weather was the absolute worse, ever! It rained all day, steady, never letting up. We had to dodge puddles and splashes from the yellow cabby's as we battled the howling wind! (Andy is dictating what I write. He has been reading too many fictional novels). We saw the Empire State Building ( no sense in going up to the observation tower with the rain and poor visibility), toured through Grand Central Station (and bought our ride-all-day-subway pass), saw the Zamboni clean the ice at Rockefeller Center (yes, it was cold enough for ice and some skaters!), amazed by Times Square and the only "ray of light" from the neon signs, then it was over to Central Park and a look at The Dakota building (Yoko Ono's home and where John Lennon was shot), the World Trade Center site (a solemn experience) and then to Battery Park to view the Statue of Liberty. As you can tell by the photo's, the weather got worse as the afternoon went on. Miss Liberty was hardly visible and we stayed long enough for a few photos then grabbed the train back to Jersey, during peak time!
When we arrived at the train station in Dover, New Jersey, we had snow to scrape off the truck, and no scrapper! Left that in Michigan along with the boots. It is only October 15th! Tampa is REALLY looking better!
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