We left this morning for our second part of the trip: New York City. We originally was going to take the Amtrak up to NYC. The train leaves about every 40 minutes from Union Station, and 3 1/2 hours later, you are in New York. Good deal unless it is on a holiday… then you might as well fly with the sort of prices they want. Book in advance if you really want to take the train and its a special day. Instead of wasting a ton of money and saving an hour, we chose to take the bus.
Like the train, most buses leave from Union Station, but there is a new bus company called Vamoose that leaves from Arlington and Bethesda. Since Bethesda is 5 minutes away from Chevy Chase, we chose to use them. The bus is supposed to take four-five hours. We left at 9:30 on a weekday, but since it was a holiday we hit no traffic at all, and got there in nearly exactly four hours. From Penn station, it was only a couple blocks via taxi to our hotel.
Today we sort of just walked around and figured out the area we were in. We really should have hopped on one of the buses today. We didn’t now that the passes were good for two days, if we did, we could have started going around the city. Oh well, hindsight.
First thing we did today was walk down to Time Square, which is very close to our hotel.
We walked over a few blocks and found Rockafeller Center and Radio Center Music Hall
From there we went over to 5th Ave, which of cours was very trendy and expensive, and had a beautiful Cathedral.
I <3 Sailors
