New Jersey Transit System Having not heard whether Bertha was ready yet or not we made some phonecalls and ended up going over to see Santos at the garage. This was a mission in itself, we left our bags in storage at the motel and sat to wait for the bus to take us to Penn station where we could get the train to Journal Square again. We waited over an hour for the bus after running round trying to get change (you are expected to know how much the bus is and t...

Statue of Liberty and Chicago we actually managed to get up in time for breakfast today which is included with the price of the motel...scrambled eggs and toast and as much coffee as you can drink at the Perkins restaurant. We then made our laborious way into New York again and got off the train at the World Trade Centre. As you can imagine being only a few days before the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 the area was heaving with people and security...they are obses...

Central Park & Blueberry Pancakes After waking up late (we missed breakfast again!) we headed into New York again with the hope of seeing a show and maybe going up the Empire State Building. We ruled out the Empire State firstly as its $22 each and secondly it was still very overcast so we wouldnt see anything anyway! After making our way to the ticket stand at 2.30 (it opens at 3) we joined the already very long queue to get discount tickets for a show t...

Santos and Shopping. The next morning we headed for the garage that Mario had recommended (his brothers) so we could drop Bertha off to be fixed. Thanks to a tropical storm which was working it's way up the east coast it was tipping it down and by the time we found the place we were already soaked. This wasn't helped by us having the wrong address so we ended up about 4 blocks from where we wanted and had to phone Mario in order to get the correct address. After...

New Yorkers... We woke up in the rest area about 1am at which point we went into MacDonald's to use the internet and try to find a place to stay. After several frustrating hours we finally booked a motel at 5pm as no one bothered to respond to our messages and one guy asked us to book his room through airbnb but then failed to respond to the request or provide his address. By the time we got to the hotel we were cold and annoyed so we decided to go for food at...