New York Trip....

This is just a quick update and I'll post the New York photos when I can. As mentioned in my last blog on Sunday we headed up to New York, the only difference was that I ended up driving up to and also through New York on the Sunday evening. To cut a long story short I ended up leaving Fairfax (just outside DC) at 1pm and we got up into Morristown, New Jersey where we were staying around 7.00pm. An hour later after a quick bite (and a lovely bite it was!) we left Morristown and had to go across to JFK airport to pick up Joel’s relatives. The way we went took us through the Lincoln tunnel, then through the middle of New York City on 42nd Street and then under the Queens Midtown Tunnel!

What made this trip all the more interesting was that I was driving a 15 Seater Chevy Express... a massive van! Sure it was fun at first but if going through the tight Lincoln tunnel wasn't enough of a challenge going through 42nd street was! I would have to say that driving through there was the most scariest and challenging experience of my 18 years of driving... if not driving through what seemed like peak traffic wasn't bad enough then having 3 Fire Trucks come from behind and the need to squash up made things more scary. I ended up laughing at the experience while shaking very much (and in the need of a stiff drink… that I never got come to think of it!)

Joel said that he couldn't wait to see "how you post this in your blog"... It is so hard to put the experience into words that I have uploaded a small video for you to give you an idea… but anyone that has been in NY on a Sunday night at 8.45pm may understand my concern!

After getting through 42nd and onto 3rd Ave we went through another tight tunnel, the Queens Midtown and then arrived at JFK around 9.30pm. Unfortunately we didn't leave until around midnight (another long story) so I was getting very tired. Driving the Van was a tiring job as I needed to think a bit harder than I normally would... plus the fact I was driving "on the wrong side of the road!"

To make another long story short we didn’t get home until 3.30am… Anyone that has travelled in the USA would know that if you miss a turnoff you can end up adding a lot of time and miles onto your trip. We missed 3 turnoffs that night due to us being tired… I would love to know how we would have gone if we had have left at 10pm as intended.

The travelling for that day was around 440miles, that’s around 717km's and over the 3 days I did just over 1300km.

As you can imagine I have 101 photos from NYC but I unfortunately don’t know when I will have time to put them up… the Wedding is this coming weekend and there are a lot of preparations (and a bucks night) beforehand…

I’ll try to post a couple of quick pics from NY and the wedding before I head off to Las Vegas.

Ciao