Day two in New York City, brilliant sunshine and about 74 degrees! And what an awesome day! Decided to spend our day Midtown. Prebooked our "top of the rock" tickets before we left (in retrospect probably unnecessary) then headed off to our nearest subway station, just up and across 42nd st at Port Authority. Took a while to sort it out but each bought ourselves a 7 day metcard for $29 for unlimited subway travel. Caught our first subway uptown to 50th st then wa...

Can't believe it - we've been away 3 weeks already!! Our first night in Santa Barbara feels like yesterday - but we have done so much!! So glad for a bit of a sleep in after our big night and once again had our fill at the breakfast buffet. Packed up, checked out and called a cab for South Station with almost an hour before our 1140am departure on the Northeast Regional 163 for our trip of just over 4 hours to New York. Once the track number is displayed its alm...

Very early start this morning and quick breakfast in time to get cab the short distance to Union station for our 0820 Amtrak train departure for Niagara Falls. Very pleasant and relaxing couple of hour trip to the Canadian/US border where many passengers disembarked - we continued the short distance to the US side and had to wait over an hour for customs officials to scrutinize all the passengers. Once we were allowed to disembark, caught a cab the 10 minute jour...