...we get up to visit the Statue of Liberty but first I post all the postcards and hope all of them are delivered this time! (not always the case!)...we get lost on the subway and off of it due to my lack of concentration and arrive a bit late...we hit great weather on Liberty and Ellis islands although it's very windy..we visit a small museum in the Statue's pedestal, a very interesting one, something I don't remember doing before...we have some grea...

...I get up and J decides to stay in bed a little longer...I ride to Manhattan to take a tour of the UN building, something I'd never done despite repeated stays in the NYC...I take a typical NYC breakfast in a rush - coffee and bagel from a street cart...on the bus I once experience kindness from random strangers in NYC when a girl on the hands me a Kleenex after I spill some coffee on myself...I take the tour which is very informative and interesting - a re...

...my dad is still a little sick and L prepares us a magnificent breakfast...we embark on a long and arduous journey from Jersey to our Airbnb home in Brooklyn...I conclude subway ticket vending machines are still as fussy, annoying and random as ever...I once again relish just looking at faces and behavior of people on the subway - it's an amazing fascinating free show that never ends. I could ride that subway for a living......we arrive, unpack, meet our ho...

...I get up early, we do some laundry with Lucyna, buy some bubble wrap so my surviving tequilas can make it safely back to Europe...we go out to do some sightseeing - the weather is beautiful, sunny and in the higher teens, and the NYC marathon is underway - a beautiful sight...we visit the Guggenheim museum for its famed solid-gold toilet, which was just installed in September - turns out there's a line of people but thanks for the 5 minute limit it goes re...

...I decide to take the train from Jersey in Manhattan and find out it is a longish trip and I meet a mime on the platform; a Broadway commuter?...I discover that I haven't unlocked my bank cards for US payments, call my bank, get a promise they'll handle it "by Monday" and realize I'm stuck with whatever cash I got... Awwww.......I find Manhattan as stimulating as ever...I discover it's not at all easy to exchange money here - banks won't do ...