...I get up early to pick up my car from the Greenwich Village rental place. The day is sunny and beautiful...the rental clerk doesn't talk much but gets the job done quickly; he is somehow surprised when I can't find what he describes as a "brownish Mazda" in the parking lot while the car is actually silver...I drive out of the Village onto the Hudson expressway fairly quickly and then I hit some traffic. However, it is soon over and I reach the shopping...

...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...

...we arrive at the airport uncharacteristically early and despite making a few circles trying to find the car rental return exit we are at the checkin counter with a lot of time in advance...our checkin clerk claims he speaks two words of Polish and we teach him his third one. He also says Polish seems easy. Hmmm......we arrive in a rainy and windy Copenhagen and once again I marvel at the quietness of the local airport...J. orders a coffee. Regular, not large. ...