Wednesday morning up at 6 am, checked out by 7 am and into a NYC amusement ride “the yellow heehaw” (better known as an NYC taxi). The driver powered up the engines, slammed the transmission into drive and the G […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tuesday started like most Tuesdays do. Somewhere around 7:30 am when the alarm went off. We had big plans today and they started with coffee from the in room Kuerig coffee maker. I wandered out into the hallway in my […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It would appear that the weather gods have begun to let us down for this trip. The clouds have set in so low that we cannot see the tops of buildings mere blocks from where we are staying. It would […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, here it is Sunday morning and still no dice. Finding it pretty amazing that there appears to be no dice in Thunder Bay or in New York City. Ok, we haven’t looked that hard, but we have looked. Sunday […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Saturday morning arrived shortly after midnight, fortunately we were asleep at the time. We decided that 7:30 would be a good time to welcome in the fresh (figuratively) morning air of NYC. We are on the 26th floor of our […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Friday the 13th, should I have been worried? I think not, after all it was going to be a wonderful day. A 2:30 pm flight out of Thunder Bay a 3 hour layover in Toronto and then a quick hour […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was a brutal start, I couldn’t get to sleep Wednesday night, my mind was going 2632 miles per hour worrying about everything I was going to forget (don’t worry I did manage to forget a couple of things). The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the words of Russel Casse, “Hello Boys! I’m back!” and in the words of John Denver, “My bags are packed, I’m ready to go”. New York City is only days away. Here is a brief run down of our […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well after a good breakfast we grabbed a cab and headed off to La Guardia to catch our flight. It is a fact, the lines painted on roads for lanes are only suggestions (at least in New York). It would […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The last night in New York, we headed out to a restaurant called Da Tomaso. This restaurant has to be one of the best kept secrets of Manhattan. It was affordable and it was fantastic. If you want a real […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…