AMERICA. The home of the brave and the land of the free!!
New York-- The noisest city in the world. I think that
our hotel received a garbage pick-up, about every twenty
minutes through the night. At least that is what it sounded like.
Taxis I am sure, have their horns connected to the ignition,
so that as soon as they turn their motor on, the horn starts
blowing and doesn't stop until the motor is turned off.
What I said about London and Hong Kong being being all
night cities,that goes double for New York.
One night after going to the theatre, we were trying to cross
Times Square, when we were told to get back on to the foot
path {sidewalk}. We had inadvertently been caught up in the
production of a movie. We had become part of a crowd scene.
All this was past midnight and all we wanted to do
was, go to our hotel and get some sleep.
5th Avenue----Marg at E.S.B----Statue Of Liberty
Margaret was told that it was good luck to spit from the top of
the Empire State Building, and that is what she is doing in the
photo above. I just hope that it didn't hit anyone down below.
Fifth Avenue seems to be just one long stream of vehicles. Dodging
the taxi's when trying to cross is an art that we did not try to
learn while we were there.
Battery Park----Empire State Bldg----Central Park
Me and that woman---N.Y from E.S.B.---Hall of Justice
Where I am standing with the statue was when I had my pocket picked.
All they got was our transfer and hotel vouchers, which we were
able to replace with a phone call home.
We caught the ferry from Battery Park to go to the Statue of Liberty.
The lift {elevator} was the way to go for us at the statue. We didn't
like the idea of climbing all those stairs to the top.
At the Empire State Building it was the same story.
We only went past Central Park, as it was our last day in New York
and we wanted to see as much as we could in the little time we
had left.
When leaving New York, we had to be at J.F.K Airport by six AM. The
bus to the airport was supposed to arrive at five, but didn't get
to our hotel until six AM.
It then proceeded to do a tour of every hotel in Manhatten, and to
add insult to injury, he dropped us off at the wrong terminal.
When finally we did get to the right one, we were informed that they
had been paging us for about one hour, to tell us that our flight
had been delayed for about an hour and a half. So we still made
the flight.
On of the highlights of our trip, was the flight accross America.
We had the great fortune to have had cloudless skys for the whole
of the journey. We were able to look down on all the cities,towns,
and villages as we passed over them.
We were able to look down into the Grand Canyon,see the snow on the
Sierra Nevada mountains and the great expance of desert that seemed
to go on for ever.
A short while later we were over......
LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles appears to be a multertude of suburbs looking for
a home. There seems to be no central place like other cities.
To a first time visitors like us, the place seem's to be just
one great maze of roads, with what seem's to be thousands of
cars per mile.
In Australia we are becoming a bit like that, more in Sydney than
any other city, I think.
The pace of L.A is extreamly fast. But nothing like the Autobahns
in Germany. Over there if you are doing one hundred and fifty
kilometers an hour,{ninty miles an hour} you have to be in the
slow lane.
Nothing but fine weather in California. We were surprised to see
so many of our native Australian eucalyptus trees there. It was
just like being at home. Things are so similar in Southern California,
to where we live in Victoria. I am not talking about the buildings,
or the built-up areas, but the open country side.{That is when
you are able to see it.}
Marg at Universal--------Elvis Star--------Rodeo Drive
We did all the things that tourists do when they are in Los Angeles.
Go to Disneyland, Universal Studios, the tours of the home of the
rich and famous and all points of interest in L.A.
One thing we didn't like in L.A was the sloppy beef rolls. When we
first arrived at our motel, we asked the the receptionist where we
could get something to eat, because we had had virtually nothing to
eat since leaving New York.{The food on domestic flights in America
is very little and a long time between feeds. They seem to have cut
everything down to a minium, so they can keep the fares less expensive.}
One thing we could not get used to, was the Danish pasteries for
breakfast each morning, while we were in Los Angeles.It seemed
quite strange to us.
Grumpy-----Marg Mickey and me
My grandchildren call me Grumpy, so everyone thought that I was
definitely in the correct car.
We had intended to extend our stay on the west coast, and travel
further north to Origon and Washington, but after two months of
constant travel, we found that we were just too tired to continue.
No great drama on our departure from LAX, but we were not looking
forward to the seventeen hour flight home.
We arrived home tired but very happy with what we had seen and
where we had been. We intend to do it all again.
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