Category Archives: Travel

Staten Island Ferry

The fish were from a tank that we were forced to look at while we waited for a return ferry to Manhattan.  I shouldn’t complain since it’s a free way to get pretty close to the Statue of Liberty, but the tourists are definitely lied to when they are told to walk a certain way toward a return ferry and they make sure it leaves before anyone else can get on, having them spend twenty minutes perusing the shops on the Staten Island side.

Washington Heights

We stayed with good friends in Washington Heights.  Included in these pictures are Fort Tryon Park and some of the food from the area.  I missed strawberry butter so much!  Why can’t they sell this stuff in stores or at least have it in the West Coast restaurants?  Also included in the pictures is the George Washington Bridge (the “GWB”) from our friend’s panoramic living room window.

 

Thanksgiving Weekend 2017 in Palm Springs

This trip we got a lot of the sun that I really needed after being in the house for a few months with my injured knee.  It was good exercise for my knee to be in the pool a lot and I actually was able to do some walking without a cane or crutches.  We also happened to run into one of our neighbors here in Hayward who was down in palm Springs for the same weekend, so it was nice to run into him and see a bunch of other friends, together with making some great new ones.