Road reports as we take trips.
This a continuing pictorial post on our visit to New York City recently. One of the things that got my attention was the number of vendors on the streets selling almost everything. Here are some pictures. Click on any picture to bring up a larger gallery view.
One of the things that amazed me about my recent three day visit to New York City was the architecture. I have always been fascinated by the myriad of building in this country and NYC is probably the best of the best. I won’t bore you with more words here. Instead this post is almost all about the pictures.
Click on any picture to see an expanded gallery view:
This is a continuation from last Saturday of my recent visit to New York City. As I previously mentioned the reason for the trip was to fulfill a bucket list item for my wife. This Post is about the people..
Here is a little about what Wikipedia says about the city:
New York County is the most densely populated county in the United States, more dense than any individual American city.It is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with a Census-estimated 2013 population of 1,626,159 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles
For an old Hoosier farm boy that is a lot of people and I think I rubbed elbows with most of them while I was there. 🙂 I think most of them there were in Time Square on the Saturday night we were there. Everywhere you go there are crowds of people. That is except for the Museum for the City of New York. There weren’t more than a hundred or so in that entire building. I guess New Yorker aren’t very interested in their history (ha).
One thing I learned from the trip is that I, at least now, have a low tolerance for crowded places. Another thing I learned is that there is no such rule about keeping right as you walk down a sidewalk. It seems to be every person for themselves.
Enough of this talk, let’s get some picture of the people I encountered on our visit. As usual click on any picture to bring up the expanded gallery:
I am going to spend the next few Saturday posts reporting on my recent trip to New York City. It was an enlightening time for me. I learned some things about myself that I didn’t appreciate before.
When we lived in central New Jersey at the end of the last millennium my wife fell in love with Central Park. She has talked about it many times in the almost 15 years since she was last there. She is getting somewhat physically restricted so it was now or never if we were going to re-visit that city. It is about the only thing in her bucket list so I was determined to make it happen.
We spent two days traveling from our home to there. Knowing that NYC traffic is impossible we took a train in from central New Jersey to Penn Station. It was a two hour trip that we have taken several times. We stayed three days at the DoubleTree Suites looking down from 38 stories onto Times Square.
Now that I have set up the scene for the next few posts it is time to do a gallery of pictures. More words and thoughts next Saturday. More pictures and stories next week. Click on any picture to see an expanded gallery…
Here we are in the final hotel of our Cleveland vacation. We are in Newark Ohio which is a little east of Columbus. We spent much of the day in more Amish country of Berlin Ohio. It claims to have the largest Amish community in the U.S. I bought a couple of framed pictures as mementos of our trip. When we left this area to head south to I70 we found you couldn’t get there from here. Two of the three roads we tried were closed!
Finally after three failed attempts we managed to find our way south and will jump on I 70 tomorrow morning for the trip home. It was a good vacation; we certainly enjoyed the cultural aspects of it and the visit with my high school friends. We learned quite a bit about Cleveland that we didn’t know before. When we visited the historical society building yesterday we came to understand that it is critical to say you are from east Cleveland or west Cleveland, not just Cleveland. We learned that there is much ethnic diversity in Cleveland than we thought. We learned that you can’t get there from here when traveling south out of northeast Ohio.
It was an interesting vacation. We will likely be back sometime soon for another visit to our re-found friends. But the next time we will find an easier way to get from there back home 🙂 Tomorrow I will be getting back to my usual posting about life in general…It was nice to be away but it will also be nice to get back; even for that mountain of Spring chores waiting for me…
We spent the day touring amish country around our friends home. There is a very large population here in northeast Ohio ( I made a terrible mistake originally here in that I said northwest instead of northeast. Sorry about that). Almost every house we came to had clothes out on the line and all in typical amish colors. So that made discovering which farms are amish rather easy. That and seeing no utility lines going into the houses. It seems that some of the families are “cheating” though; they have solar panels installed on the roofs.
It was a good leisurely day. We went to several different stores; some for the amish and some for the tourists. Our hosts bought quite a bit of bulk goods (sugar and that sort of thing) to stock up. We bought a few things to weigh the car down a little more. If my wife buys much more I will have to rent a U-Haul trailer 🙂
Tomorrow we will hit the road towards home. We will likely take the State roads instead of the Interstate ones and spend an extra day.
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