New York and Mexico

Hi,

Been pretty busy lately, had some trouble selling the car and we ended up spending 5 days in Calgary because it was a long weekend and we couldnt get rid of the car. Tuesday came quickly and we offloaded the car as quickly as we could. A nice bearded lady in a pawn shop took the car off our hands for $700. It was sad to see it go but pretty exciting to start the next leg of our trip.

After the car was gone we booked flights to New York and left the following morning. On arrival we got an airport transfer with the crziest driver in all New York City, a little old italian man who was hooning everywhere while listening to his opera and talking on his phone, it was a fun ride but good to get to Manhattan alive.Our hostel was right in the middle of Manhattan, about a 5 minute walk to Times Square.

We did alot of touristy stuff in NY; Walked through central park a few times which was really great park, without it New York City wouldnt be so great. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Modern Museum of Art and The Museum of Natural History. The best was MOMA , the natural history museum was cool but there were annoying pricks everywhere. We went up the top of the Rockefeller Center one day which had good views of Central Park and the City , and we went up the Empire State Building late one night which was really good.

The best thing we did in NY was the Broadway show we saw. It starred Christopher Walken and was called " A Behanding in Spokane". Its a black comedy about a man who gets his hand chopped off by some no good men who then take his hand and wave goodbye to him with it. The handless man then spends the next 47 years of his life trying to track down his hand. It sounds a bit strange but it was so funny.

A week was definitely long enough in New York, it is a great city but i could never live there. Its just to busy, im sure people have nervous breakdowns going down to get the paper in the morning.

5am yesterday we started our journey to Puerto Escondido, Mexico. We arrived this morning at 9am or so, it took about 28 hours all up which was brutal, but this place seems awesome so far and were looking forward to spending the next month here just chilling out.

here are some snaps of NYC:

View from up the top of the Empire State Building


Cant remember the name of this bridge, there are too many.


We did a cruise, this is the view back to NYC


Some statue, think its the statue of david.


Aircraft Carrier, that yellow thing hanging off the sky is a space capsule.


2 Machine Gun Boats protected the aircraft carrier at all times


View from the top of the Rockefeller Centre.


Looking down at Central Park from the top of the 'Rock'


Leah enjoying a some sort of circle shaped italian food that they cut into wedges.


This dudes bubbles were one of the highlights on NYC


In Central Park


Sccchhhhtickk Bawwl in the Park.