Exploring New York City

Aug 25, 2019

For our final day in the big apple we started earlier than yesterday and took the subway to the Port to check out the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Complex which was awesome and even if we had been there all day we still wouldn’t have seen it all and even Ashley found that there were different things to see than he had previously seen. We toured the Grumbler Submarine used as a launch pad for nuclear missiles as part of the deterrent program in the cold war. Then we toured the Intrepid Aircraft carrier which was used in WWII as well as Vietnam and now houses all sorts of historic planes, helicopters and all sorts of displays in the hangar not to mention heaps of others on the deck including a Space Shuttle in a massive shed!. We nearly walked our legs off then headed back to the subway and a cab to get to the Highline Walk which was once elevated railway lines and after public intervention stopped the wrecking of it and it is now a huge walkway and garden.

We headed back to the subway and Ashley got off to make sure the old people were pointed in the right direction so we wouldn’t get lost on the way to our hotel, we said our farewells and headed back to the hotel to freshen up then had a quiet dinner before turning in. It was a treat to be able to catch up and spend so much time with him.

Intrepid shots, this one of the deck from the Flag Room.

And this on the deck itself.

And the Space Shuttle Enterprise, impossible to fit it all in!

Then to the Highline Walk which was all kinds of wonderful. The raile lines have been left and are an integral part of the garden. Feel a bit sorry for some who have had their privacy impacted, but at least they no longer have a railway outside their windows ... and there is some quirky architecture in buildings along the way.