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    • Gone walkaboutworld tour '16
      Day 14

      Mad dash to New York

      September 2, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

      Yesterday was loooooooooong, I woke up at 3am(for some crazy reason) in Elmira knowing that I had to leave at 6 to fight my way through Toronto rush hour and catch my flight...I managed to get back to sleep....at 5 am, approx 15 mins before my first alarm went off 😤 , Bev sorted me a nice strong coffee and after a quick shower I was on the road again.

      The drive down to Toronto started off fine, pleasant even with a beautiful sunrise with country music soundtrack and I was making awesome time, at one point Google had me getting in to Toronto at 7.15. At this point I should make clear this is offline Google with no traffic info... Then I got to about 20km outside the city and everything just stopped, crawling through rush hour traffic on foreign roads with multiple exits on either side, Sun directly in your eyes and a bladder full of coffee and red bull it's enough to make you forget about beautiful sun rises...never mind though, got to Toronto with an hour spare, filled up the car with petrol and dropped it off, I hustled to the nearest cafe for breakfast and much more importantly to relieve myself.

      Made the decision to do the 25 min walk out to the airport 25th my bags as some sort of exercise, once again forgetting how heavy they are and how Crap I am with any sort of heat....needless to say once again Mr Stewart "sweaty mess" Jardine showed up as I arrived at the airport. Got checked in, got through security (no beeps for the metal in my arm.. Tsk tsk Toronto city airport, someone needs stronger metal detectors) and was shortly thereafter told of 20 minute delay to my flight which wouldn't have caused any issues except that by the time we took off it was closer to an hour and twenty.

      After a very rigorous grilling from American immigration (I think the dude was totes jel of my trip) they let me into America, the fools, mwhahaha...i needed to make a mad dash from Jersey into queens, find my airbnb, shower and get back out to jersey for the football 🏈 🏈 . I owe a big thanks to 2 lovely ladies from home who I was frantically texting as I stressed out and tried I figure out a plan for keeping me calm in a city I didn't know but they do very well...Big love

      I made it out to MetLife, just as the game was kicking off and found my seat up in the gods...I'd love to say it was an exciting action packed game...buuuuuut it wasn't, still great experience (not just paying £18 for a pint and what appeared to be a chicken and chips school dinner and tasted about as good) but I think it was worth it... The trip and stress not the food.      Read more

    • TravelerSummer 2022
      Day 4

      First Stop Long Island NY

      May 4, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 57 °F

      Flew to NY for a couple of weeks after a call from my brother: "Mom called an ambulance and is on her way to the hospital. Can you come earlier than you planned?" Turns out she has been dealing with a couple of ulcers on her leg and hadn't told anyone of us. She had gone to a dermatologist and been on a couple of antibiotics which maybe did help it not get infected but didn't do much to heal an ulcer caused by vascular insufficiency. So I left for NY. I had been planning on going later in the month so that I could be there while Joe & Sue went to NJ for a little vacation.

      Can't talk about how stressful it is to stay with my mom & dad. Dad is going to turn 99 in August, Mom is 94 I think. I expect I will be back soon.      Read more

    • TravelerNY City & East Coast Road Trip
      Day 14

      Long Beach, Jones Beach and Fire Island

      April 21, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

      After an 8 hour drive from Tawna to Manhatten to pick up Clarence and then do grocery shopping, a few relaxing days at the beach sounded ideal. I booked a beach house Airbnb on Long Beach, Long island to wind down after all the running around. We would be close enough to the City if we wanted to use some more of our Go City passes. We still have 3 attractions to use. I bought the passes with 6 each and we have only done 3 so far in that first weekend. The Statue of liberty cruise only started running from 15th April so we should be good now.
      Long Beach is quiet suburbia with marshes on the north side and "long" beaches and boardwalks on the entire southern side of the Island. I guess there is nothing between these beaches and the UK now other than the Atlantic Ocean. Sea fishing is an option and whale and seal watching but Cade seems to be all touristed out and wants to spend a couple of days just chilling.
      It has been nice to go grocery shopping and be able to cook for these few days as we have a full kitchen.
      Wednesday we took a drive to Jones Beach which is the next island along and then on to Fire island which is the long thin stretch of sand that we saw on our flight in to JFK. I had seen this from the air and decided I wanted to explore it...
      Jones beach wasn't much to look at... just a road right through and big car parks along it called Field 1.2.3.4 etc It wasn't quite what I was expecting.. it is very remote and I thought there would be more commercial or leisure buildings for holidaymakers but there wasn't. I know we are out of season but even so it seems it is an island that you drive to, park and just spend the day at on an empty beach.
      Fire Island was beautiful.. it is a national state park and a very thin strip of just sand. Looking at the map it is populated all to the north/east. We drove as far as we could which wasn't far and parked up at the nearest car park to the lighthouse. Had a good walk on the beach which was stunning.
      After the lighthouse we checked out Google maps that told us we could drive to the cafes so we clicked on one and went.. we passed a sign saying "no vehicles past here without a Federal State Permit" we didn't know what that meant so we carried on going 🤔 🤣 we got to a barricade where a Ranger station wouldn't let us past.
      Very confusing as we couldn't work out how to drive to the nice looking part of Fire Island where all the marinas and cafe bars and restaurants were, so we turned back ☹️
      Having done research later that night,the Oceanside Sailors retreat it is called is only accessible by ferry. Once on the private complex you can only ride bikes or walk. Such a shame as I would have liked to have seen that part of the Island.. oh well, next time 😃
      Thursday I think we will go into the City and do the statue of liberty.      Read more

    • Gin Tonic on Tourlivin’ the American Dream
      Day 1

      the city that never sleeps, but we do

      July 25, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

      No questions were asked, we simply had to let our fingers be scanned at the airport. Our luggage was one of the first to come and then the adventure started. ‘What shall we do now? We haven’t booked a single place to stay, yet.’
      We’d actually changed our original plan of flying out to the West coast to going up to Boston and Maine and staying in the east region. Or to Philadelphia? But tonight we’re gonna stay here in New York cause it’s really tiring to be 6 hours behind and awake since 4 am.
      Welcome to… QUEENS. Not a place you’d like to stay :) awesome. What a great welcome to the US.
      It’s becoming dark, our street is not too far away from all the businesses and a metro station but still it’s more than kinda sketchy. And after cockily declaring to go out tonight we fall asleep shortly before 9pm. In this region I wouldn’t really like to go out in the dark (nor in the day, really…)
      It’s a nice city view out the window, though.      Read more

    • Karen HolmesMirabelle’s Travel Diary 2017
      Day 5

      Universal Studios, Los Angeles

      May 10, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

      We woke up super early again around 7am, I was exhausted but got a better nights sleep. When I woke up I got ready and had cereal and fruit for breakfast. We left around 7.30am and drove to Universal Studios, when we got there Dad, Mum and Travis and I got a photo in the photo booth we did it but our photo was really funny.

      We then walked through the Universal shops to the Universal Studios park entrance, we walked through the gates and went into the centres to wait for the park to open. We looked at all the times of the rides and were really confused as they all said 10am and it was only 9am. At 9am the man walked us down to the Harry Potter Wizarding World and we went on the Harry Potter ride it was like being on a flying broomstick. There was a massive dragon and he blew out enormous flames which were actually hot. Then we saw the dementors which were spooky, Harry Potter then saved the day.

      After the Harry Potter ride we went on a Hippogriff ride, it was nice and calm which I was very surprised about as it looked like a scary rollercoaster. We rode inside a Hippogriff.

      After the Hippogriff ride we went back on the Harry Potter ride and it made me feel a little bit sick the second time. Then we looked around the Harry Potter world.

      We then decided to go on the studio tour as it was quiet. The studio tour showed showed you where they filmed everything and the first thing we went too was a new town they were getting ready for a new show. We saw lots of cars from famous movies that Universal have made, like Flintstones, fast and furious and lots more.

      I was super excited when I saw a car crashed near a big tunnel. What I did not know is we were going into the big tunnel. Inside the big tunnel were dinosaurs from Jurassic Park attacking us, King Kong was wrestling the dinosaurs. Our studio truck was moving all around and was really bumpy.

      Once we got out of the tunnel we went to an area were they film Mexican scenes for films and they showed us how they film rain and floods for the movies. They use sprinklers up high and lots of water to make floods, they reuse all the water over and over again.

      We then drove past the Jaws movie and we saw a diver in the water and Jaws came after him, we saw lots of fake blood in the water, I liked that. They then took us to another tunnel were we saw more floods and cars crashing and an earthquake taking place in a subway.

      They then showed a hotel and a man was carrying a body to his car, it was from a movie called Psycho, he was holding a knife which was very creeepy.

      We went on lots of rides but my favourites were the Harry Potter, The Mummy and the Jurassic Park Water ride.

      At the Animal Antics show, I got picked to go on stage with the trainer and act with the dog called Lily. I gave her lots of cuddles and I think she got a bit distracted because she wasn't doing what she was meant too. She kept doing a cute bark and talking.
      I had to sit in a chair and there was a treat on the ground for the dog but a pug came out form backstage and stole it.      Read more

    • Karen HolmesMirabelle’s Travel Diary 2017
      Day 7

      NYC in the rain - Day 1

      May 12, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

      It was our first day here and everyone was very tired, my brother Travis and I got up at 11am, which is really late. Everyone then got ready and ate breakfast.

      We then we got a hotel taxi to the subway. We bought a ticket for the subway, when we got on the train it was super full of people and it took about 3 minutes to get to Grand Central Station.

      When we got off, we then checked out the rest of the subway and there was this beautiful old room with so much detail.

      We then went out into the city that never sleeps and we went to lots of shops where we looked at shoes, shirts and jumpers and more shoes for Travis. It was pouring with rain and the rain soaked through our raincoats!

      Everyone was super hungry so we were going to get cupcakes at a famous cupcake store called Magnolia Bakery but there was nowhere in the shop to sit! So instead we went to find another cafe and found a nice french one, we got yummy egg sandwiches and I got a yummy Citron tart :p.. We stayed a while to dry off a bit and had a hot chocolate to warm us up.

      When we left we where all pretty tired we went past Trump tower which had a lot of security around it. Then we went into a Nike shop, it was called Niketown and was a flagship shop so was really fancy. Which Ii thought was a bit boring everyone, as we were all very tired, we then decided to call it a day and went back to our hotel and got a large pizza for dinner. We thought the pizza would not be that big, it was SO big, I could only just eat a full piece then we stayed up till 10 pm and then went to sleep.      Read more

    • Destination UnknownChristmas in New York

      Waiting to Leave

      December 10, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 36 °F

      I'm here at the Astoria Boulevard station waiting for the train to come and take me into Manhattan. It's kinda chilly but I'm sure that once I start walking around I'll warm up quickly.

    You might also know this place by the following names:

    Long Island City, Long Island, 롱아일랜드시티, 11101, Лонг-Айленд-Сити, لانگ آئلینڈ سٹی, לאנג איילענד סיטי, 長島市

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