The Home Exchanger is very happy to share with you part thirteen of the story of Michael and his family's home exchange in the US!
This will be the last part of our diary telling you what we actually did do during the last days of our stay in the US. The final installments will give you our Top 10 on US and a little about the savings we enjoyed doing a home exchange instead of a more '"traditional" holiday.
One of the nice things about staying at our home exchange property in New Jersey is it gave us a good "home base" from which to make daytrips.
Sunday July 31st we started out by going to an outlet store mall, in Central Valley, north of NYC. We made some great purchases, but the biggest experience was the drive back to NYC. We just followed the signs and right from the outlet center we came straight onto a highway formed like a "corridor" of trees leading all the way to the G.W. Bridge close to NYC. Never seen any thing like it!
In NYC we did a short stop close to Central Park, where we had a quick picnic and got a glimpse of what Central Park is really like. No doubt it will take more than a day to get the full picture. That will be the next time! From Central Park we went all the way to Downtown and another visit to China Town. The kids had a list of special stuff that they wanted to buy and except for the "Gucci" sunglasses, we got it all!
Monday was another day in NYC but started out with a great American breakfast at Raymond's locally in Montclair. Being the age I am I can't help thinking of "Breakfast in America" by Supertramp! And it was a great breakfast!
At noon we took the NJ Transit train to Penn Station, but we weren't very pleased with the delayes caused by the PGA Tour at Springfield. We really couldn't understand how that should affect our trip, but it did, and we were late by more than an hour when finally reaching Penn. On August 15th, the PGA Tour finished and the Dane Thomas Bjørn won Second Place, so it turns out that the delays were OK by us!
Our last day in NYC was great. We did SOHO, which was a little disapointing, and from there back to Midtown and the great shopping at 5th Avenue and other street close by. The highlight of the day was Times Square at night!
It seems Central Park is really nice to visit
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