Weather in NY rainy. Philly 80 and sunny. Somehow we made it through New York unscathed and accomplished. It was pretty easy transportation wise. We rode taxis, subways and trains. We walked for miles in sun an rain. They did GREAT! These are times that I (we) take to teach appropriateness in restaurants, subways, public places. How to be safe and not look like a target. Ben is a worry wart we have discovered. We have been teaching him to be a kid and let us worr...

Battery Park to Central ParkWeather 81 spotty rain in AM and warm and sunny PM We took the subway downtown to the Statue of Liberty ferries. We got a later start than we thought and decided the trip on the ferry would interfere with the 911 memorial reservation we had. We decided to maybe do the Liberty ferry on the NJ side tomorrow. We walked over to the Memorial. On the way we saw a movie being filmed but still don't know what it was. We didn't see anyo...

Weather 81 sunny, warm and breezy Somehow we figured out how to hop a train from Stamford, CT to New York City. It took a couple of circles around the station to figure out where to go. Bought our tickets and hopped on the train. Pretty easy. It dropped us at Grand Central Station which was a few of blocks from our hotel.  We are staying at the Courtyard Marriott Manhattan. I really like Marriott. They are clean and comfortable. We happen to be Gold members bec...

Weather 80s and sunny We left the great city of Boston today with plenty of sunshine. We set off for Plymouth and Cape Cod only to realize it is Saturday. Everyone appears to go to Cape Cod on a sunny weekend. We decided against it since it would be more than an hour off of our route already. We rerouted to Rhode Island, specifically New Port to the Cliff Walk. We were taking a chance on a suggestion from one of Paul's clients. It was an hour to the coast off...

Weather 100% rain but warm Day started out rainy and continued to be rainy all day. It was warm though. So we put on our rain coats and enjoyed Bahston like all the other Bahstonians. Worked out great because we still had our second day on trolleys. Kept us dry and took us all over Boston. We had some interesting Trolley drivers today. One of them was an older gentleman. Not sure about the gentleman part. He was irritated when people in the back were talking in t...