NY 17 / New York City 1383.9

The upcoming "town", the zero day and the fact that we were out of food really motivated us to wake up at 5:15 and head out after a quick and small breakfast. We quickly made our miles and arrived at the intended road crossing earlier than expected. So we started walking in direction of the next bus stop. After about half an hour a man stopped and offered us to give us a ride to there. So he dropped us off in Tuxedo where we could decide if we take a train or the bus.
On arrival in New York City we first went to the Times Square - which was pretty close to the bus terminal. Because Till needed to accompany a delegation we couldn't get the keys from him. So we kept on being stinky hiker trash in this fashion metropolitan ;) After a little while we just stopped caring but we must have smelled pretty bad according to the faces some people made :x
We successfully shopped a new skirt as a town outfit for Julia and rewarded ourselves with a trip to Chinatown to get some famous soup dumplings. And they are delicious, even though I had some issues eating them. From there we walked a bit through Little Italy and a guy in a suit came by us and asked if we are thru hikers :D He said that he did it last year. A little bit later we saw two other thru hikers in a subway station... The world is a village ;)
Later in the afternoon we went to see the "Charging bull" at the Wall Street, the WTC memorial site and had a cruise to Staten Island and back.

For dinner we stopped by a supermarket and got cheese, grapes and cheese together with a cheap bottle of my favorite wine (Nero d'Avola). Together with Till we had a blast in his apartment and chatted until late at night.Read more