September 10th Philly and lunch with Helen

Did Philly today, went to the Independence NP VC.

Drove back, in time to have Buddy Helen join us for lunch at Lambertville Station. Very nice place.  On the way out, Helen backed into a blood red Ferrari!

Tomorrow, we start for Texas.  First stop is Thousand Trails, Gladys, Va.  

Saw these plates in town:

Saturday September 9th Did NYC

Did the city, in a big way.  Caught the 0724 train from Hamilton, got to the city at 0838.

Wound up doing 17,692 steps for the day, 7.2 miles.  

Took a wrong subway, corrected that, but walked the wrong way twice, for several blocks.  

Did Castle Clinton, Trinity Church Burial Ground, Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace, and then Columbia Univ bookstore, got lost trying to walk up to Gen Grant memorial, then decided to take the subway back and catch the subway and an earlier train home.  Got the 214 home, and arrived at 338.  

Here's some random shots of the day:

The famous new statue of the little girl staring down the bull on Wall Street.

2 new pins for the day....

At Trinity Church on Lower Broadway: 

Robert Fulton gravesite

Alexander Hamilton gravesite and memorial

A wonderful building downtown on the way to the Roosevelt Birthplace near the flatiron building:

I managed to get the Stonewall stamp at Castle Clinton.  

Today, I'm driving over to Philadelphia to the Independence NP.  

September 7th To New Jersey.... the hard way!

Got to Jersey, but the hard way.  I argued with the GPS and took the wrong I-87 South and wound up coming over the George Washington Bridge in rush hour, which we did not want to do.  

Took I-95, I-495, I-90, I-84, I-684, failed to go over the new Tappan Zee Bridge, which we knew to do, took the wrong I-87 South, then the Cross Bronx over the GWB, then down the I-95 Jersey Turnpike to our spot for the evening, Camp Wal Mart at Trenton, NJ.   

Tale of the Garmin for the day:  357.8 miles, Max speed 71 (I'm driving, not Bette) Moving average 51 mph  overall avg 37 mph, total moving time 6:56  Total trip time: 9:44.  Fuel consumption: 7.5 gals per mile, used 46 gallons.  

Tomorrow is a rest day pretty much, going to the NJ state capitol and to another site in Trenton.  Saturday is the train into NYC for some stamping sites, Sunday is Philadelphia for the same.  

Nice to have Tracy with us for the week.  

Saw these plates in the campground yesterday, and several on the way down today.