New York has a way of tiring you out. When you're like me and on vacation here you constantly want to be on the move and getting in as much as is humanly possible. There is just so much to see and do that a week is nowhere near enough time to clear your check list. This happened in my 2011 visit and even coming in to New York City via some stunning sunset images from upstate along the Hudson River I knew it would be the same case again. So far we've walked most ...

There really is nothing quite like New York City. I'm sure anybody that has been here will no doubt agree, whether for right or wrong reasons. If you can't tolerant the chaotic nature of seemingly endless groups of people zipping all over the place, hearing six different languages at once as they zoom pass you while you're standing on a street corner and the smell of a subway drain you're standing on as a train thunders past underneath your feet then you're proba...

They say timing is everything. And after being awake for nearly forty five hours straight, I'm not counting the half hour sleep I got on the last night in Toronto, arriving in Corning was like a savior from my inner insomniac. This little insomniac critter had been taking me over and slowly but surely wearing me down but I suppose that was always going to happen when on a once in a life time kind of trip. In any event arriving in Corning, a couple of hours north ...

As I was leaving it I made myself a promise go back to Indianapolis if I journey to the states again. In a way it kind of reminded me of a big country town rather than a major city which is perhaps why it's not thought of as a major tourist destination. I think that's one of the reasons I liked it so much, not that I've got anything against people like, well, me. If I did have a problem with hordes of tourists rampaging around me then I know I'd not have planned ...