Well after our log entry on Sunday 7th Ocober we went to ground zero, the statue of liberty, ellis island and statten island. Ground zero was a rather strange place to go as it is now a building site and you can't actually see anything there because of the high fences. It was very sobering, but the stalls selling tacky gifts and the tourists pushing there cameras through the fences to get a picture made it feel a bit of a strange place to go. After this we...

Well Hello from New York City. Thats it we have finally left and are on day three of our excellent adventure. After a tearful thursday and friday we left for Heathrow where it all began well with us having to empty our rucksack of everything at security and place our sleeping bags in the bag whilst stuffing the contents of the bag into a our pockets. Apparently you can only take one bag each through and a sleeping bag counts as a bag. Tony did suggest that we we...