Washington We spent most of the day driving, finally arriving in a tourist rest area around 4 o'clock where the extremely helpful man gave us several free maps and brochures as well as some info on how to use the metro in Washington which would be substantially cheaper than parking in the centre of town. The rest stop also had free WIFI so we took this opportunity to check our e-mails, have some dinner and upload some blogs from New York. At about 7 we set off...

Bertha Fixed and Escaping New York We got up before Santos arrived at just after 8am and he told us he was trying a few other places to see if they had the part we needed. It was the right axle which apparently is hard to come by for a 20 year old Ford! He rang around until somewhere said they had one then had to wait for his sin to arrive to help him fetch it. When they left we sat around waiting and read some of the books we'd bought in the last few days, I'...

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...