The Esplanade

Just had our last day of dodging dog walkers, red light runners, pan handlers, hustlers trying to sell you tickets to tourist attractions or sell you the actual attraction itself, though I did considered a pretty good offer on buying The Empire State Building, a real bargain for what they were asking.

We missed our loonies today, there weren’t too many around, maybe because we didn’t ride the subway.
I think they like it down there, the roar of the trains in the tunnels seem to set them off. They can yell inanities at the top of their voices and it doesn’t seem too out of place.

The days of visiting the really famous tourist spots are over if you struggle with crowds.
We tried lining up for a few of them then gave up and were all the better for it otherwise the only experience you remember is just how jostled you were.
With the famous ones that you definitely have to see like the Statue of Liberty you just need to avoid the busy periods, earlier is good, it seems the world is full of lazy bastards who want to have a lie in.
We know how they feel, it was hard for us to get up too but worth it because as we were leaving the crowds coming in were insane.

What we mainly did instead was walk the city, catch the ferries and ride the subway with some sort of plan, usually this was disbanded because of all the other neat stuff we stumbled into.
Today’s unintended discoveries were, A guy dragged a piano into Washington Square, his playing was brilliant. A guy dragged a trombone into Washington Square, well maybe he just carried it in but his playing was brilliant too.
Finding off chance things like this as well as walking the Hudson River Park along the western shore of Manhattan, that was a good one, scenery fantastic, running into weird stuff 10 out of 10.
The experiences go on and on but to save you from any boredom these few descriptions will do for now.Read more