Went to 911 Memorial, Statue of Liberty and Staten Island free ferry. Temperatures throughout the week have been between 35-40 Celsius and extremely humid. It is described on tv news as heat wave. 911 is quite touching and heavy police presence and security. Did not get to go up Statue of Liberty, it has a 3 month waiting list. Staten Island ferry is free and has awesome views. Went up 30 Rockefeller just before sunset. Highest observation deck is at floor 70. N...

Been getting up by 7 so that I could get the hop on hop off busses by 9 each morning. Found a place with decent breakfast for $6 which is dirt cheap! Used NY Sightseeing tour busses. I wouldn't recommend them. Had four loops and I bought a 48 hour ticket but did not get off bus much. Most of the tours is about pointing out which celeb lives where, which building is tallest in the world and at which times, where movie/tv shows were filmed. NYC is full of these sp...

Had to catch a train at Union Station in Washington. There was not much time to have breakfast at the station before boarding the train so I didn't get much time to explore the station. I should have done it previously since all the hop on hop off busses stop here. The ticket was $164 which I thought quite steep for a 3.5 hour journey. The train has free wifi and plug points so you can charge your phone/iPad while traveling. Was busy chatting on wifi for most of...