Monday May 14, 2012

Hello All,

On Mothers Day we met Gary's friend Bruce and were supposed to have lunch with him... Well, he really wanted to show us his fire truck warehouse with like 500 fire trucks in it, so we drove about an hour out to that and spent a couple of hours looking at fire trucks...Just how every mother wants to spend her mother's day... HA! Really it was very cool, and he did take us for a ride in one of the fire trucks! I have to say I felt like a little kid that gets to climb up on a fire truck, except I got to go for a ride! We went around the town blew the air horn and rang the bell...Yes, we are still children at heart!

We said goodbye to Bruce and headed to Nyack our home for a few days....

Today was quite a day! WOW! The "Car Whisperer" is a genius with a map.. He figured out our whole trip from Nyack, New York to NYC without a car!

We caught the bus at 8:03 right by our hotel, it took us to the Tarrytown train station cost $3.00.... Then the train to Grand Central Station Cost: $12.00 for a round trip ticket during "Peak" hours.. Then a subway ride to the 9/11 Memeorial cost $2.50.. Total Cost for the day$17.50... Memories for the rest of our lives...Priceless. :)

After some quality time at the memorial (a very moving experience) we headed to Battery Park to catch the ferry to the Statue of Liberty. That was way cool...

Hard to imagine people coming in after a long journey and seeing that big lady with her hand held high. They must have breathed a sigh of relief that they were finally at their new home. It brought a tear to my eye, it was pretty amazing! We took lots of photos and I'll try to post a few of the good ones...

Tomorrow we may stop at OCC (Orange County Choppers) as we are really close and Gar and I love the Teutle's even if they all can't get along... Then off to Atlantic City to walk the boardwalk (another thing on my bucket list!) and to check out the hotels and casinos.

See ya on the Road,
Ter :)
　
'From the driver's seat'.....A couple of crazy days...yesterday we met with my buddy Bruce to make my repairs to the electrical system 'permanent'. I'm kinda diggin' the starter button! On the way to his house I scraped a high curb with the right rocker panel....gonna need a little paint and body work...=-(.... Once our repairs were made we headed over to his fire truck collection. He started a 'club' with nine other people to have a place to put their trucks....they ended up with a multi-hundred thousand square foot building with 400 plus pieces of fire equipment!!!!!! He owns 40 of them himself! They have everything from an early 1920's ladder truck to a MASSIVE airport pumper!!! Bruce then opened the back door and fired up a ladder truck to take us for a ride around town!!

We were supposed to go to dinner but the time slipped away before he had to get ready for that nights band show. We said our good bys and headed for our next nights stay in Nyack, just north of NYC.

Today we braved public transportation and headed for the heart of New York City. Our plans were to visit to World Trade Center Memorial and the Statue of Liberty. I got some info from Bruce and some from the front counter at our motel and studied the subway routes on line. The bus picked us up right in front of our hotel and dropped us off right at the train station to Grand Central Station. The train ride was about 30 minutes and then we asked for help at an information booth and they put us on a subway that stopped a block from the Memorial! We spent some time at the Memorial and then walked a few blocks to the dock for the ferry to the Statue of Liberty Island. We got some great pics while we cruised the bay and had lunch in the shadow of the statue.

We wandered to the other side of Battery Park and happened upon the very subway station we were looking for, got on the right subway, got on the right train back to Nyack and the right bus to our motel. I was a bit stressed cuz I wasn't confident we could navigate the buses and trains, but driving the woodie to the city...in that traffic.... and looking for a place to park it, would have been MUCH more stressful.

We're both beat... tomorrow we leave for Atlantic City!




Fun Day, oh so tired!