At the end of our India and UAE trip, we returned to New York City to spend some more time in the US before returning to Ecuador. We spent a couple nights with long-time friends Zoya and Vladimir, and their parents, in New Jersey. We had wanted to take photos of the lower Manhattan skyline, which has […]
Manhattan and a New Camera
We are off on another extended trip, and we will be reporting on our progress over the next six weeks. We started with a four day stay in Manhattan, and, it was C-O-L-D….We were bundled up with down jackets, ski hats and gloves. Our first stop was at B&H Photo and Video, where I bought […]
Wrapping Up New York
We wrapped up our first week of New York City today, walking our feet off and taking more subways up and down Manhattan. We started by walking through Central Park, where surprisingly, the Fall colors were still visible. While in the area, we visited Columbia University to check out the campus. Alice (The High School […]
Liberty In The Rain
To go to the top of the Statue of Liberty requires buying tickets months in advance. We had ours for today — which turned out to be the only day on our New York trip that was raining. Besides getting soaked, it gave us lots of photographs of the Manhattan skyline partially hidden in the […]
Exotic New York
Another day of wandering around New York City and running up record numbers on our pedometers. We have gotten used to seeing a lot of fresh fruits and flowers in Ecuador. New York has small corner stands throughout East Village, with everything just as fresh but having a more polished display. First target neighborhood was Chinatown. […]
The City of the Young
This was a long day of walking and subway-ing (I know it’s not a word, but we did it!) around New York City. We started by going to the 9/11 memorial where the World Trade Center once stood. It was massively impressive, with more buildings still going up. The internal display was extremely well done, […]
New York, Here We Come
We have spent the last couple of days in New Jersey, visiting with Zoya and Vladimir (friends we first met in St Petersburg, Russia in 1992), seeing the last of the Fall Colors, visiting the New York PhotoPro expo, and shopping for last minute items for Iceland. Today we moved to East Village in New […]