The Travel Thread

[LonelyHiker]

Just got back from a long weekend in NYC with my son. It was his first trip and we both had a great time. We took the train (also a first for him) and it was a smooth ride with only a slight delay due to the heat.


Crossing the Potomac

A rest stop in DC at Union Station while they switch locomotives

The Manhattan skyline looms as we get closer to Penn Station

Riding the subways like a native!

View from our hotel in Hell's Kitchen

 

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Queuing for Blue Man Group at the legendary Astor Place Theatre in the Village

Not a bad seat in the house!

Times Square - sadly, still a gaudy, commercial cesspool - we only walked through it to get to our hotel..

ESB from our room Friday evening ..

 

[LonelyHiker]

The welcome committee at the 59th street station (Central Park)



Feeding the penguins - no unauthorized excavations were detected 😁

 

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Tropical zone at CPZ

 

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Urban oasis

The famous Delacorte clock

The otherworldly architecture of the new foyer at the American Museum of Natural History

The iconic blue whale 🐋 in the Hall of Biodiversity

Getting ready for a show at the celebrated Hayden Planetarium

 

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One World Trade Center

A moment of reflection and remembrance...honoring the victims of 9/11

 

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Herald Square, ready to follow in Kong's footsteps

"Buddy the Elf here, what's your favorite colour?"

A view that never gets old...

 

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More breathtaking views ESB views ..

Amusing ESB stairwell art 😁

 

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Gimbels - er, Macy's at Herald Square (the toilets were GINORmous!) 🚽

Battery Park, lower Manhattan

Battery Park and Lady Liberty in the distance...hopefully she won't end up scorched and half-buried on a beach in the centuries to come 😕

 

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Pier 86 fountain, Hudson River Park

USS intrepid

The Intrepid Museum

 

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The actual Space Shuttle Enterprise, used in glide/re-entry tests before the historic launch of Columbia in 1981

Apollo's Saturn V

 

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Departing Penn Station for home, exhausted (but happy)

 

[seabird]

wow. intense.

They're all great pictures! Thank you for showing us these @LonelyHiker . That you took the train makes it even better.

It's been almost 20 years since I was there.

 

[LonelyHiker]

wow. intense.

They're all great pictures! Thank you for showing us these @LonelyHiker . That you took the train makes it even better.

It's been almost 20 years since I was there.

Thank you @seabird, we packed a lot into 2 1/2 days...I want to bring him back and show him some of the other boroughs - Coney Island, the Bronx Zoo, maybe Roosevelt Island, take him on the Staten Island ⛴️ ferry, go to a Mets game...