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We have lots of things to do this month, I hope we find all the time we need. Make sure you check out all the subpages, I hope you don't get too bored reading them. I know we had a great time doing all those things! Between NYC, wine tasting, US history, and great friends, we were never bored. |
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| We also made it to Pennsylvania for a week, click here to head down | |
| Our friends, Jim and Allison, came to visit for a week while we were in New York, we love having friends join us and these are some great ones... | |
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| Here's Jim backing in their travel trailer into their selected spot. Allison is waiting in the back to help guide. | You need to go that way, you are almost there... |
| Our 1st adventure is going to GMA, but that is on another page (NYC), our next adventure after that is attending the Men's Final for the US Open. I was SO excited! | |
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| We need to ride the "7" subway train to Queens to get out to the stadium for the US Open. | The walkway from the subway platform at Shea Stadium to Arthur Ashe Stadium. |
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| Shea Stadium (left) & Citi Field (right): the old and the new home of the New York Mets. Citi Field opens April 2009. | We made it, we actually got tickets (at original price) for the US Open, Yeah! |
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| The final bracket, with Serena Williams winning the women's title. | The men's bracket, waiting for the winner of tonight's match. |
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| I love the look of this globe, you might recognize it from the MIB movie... | Arthur Ashe Stadium |
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| Jim waiting for the show to begin, it looks like it is a long way up (or down), but we really could see very well. | Harry Connick Jr. singing the National Anthem and the great flag. |
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| F-15 fly over, these "guys" are up from North Carolina. | At 10 paces... the duel begins... Federer (on the left) vs. Murray |
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| Roger Federer starting his serve, can't you tell? Actually, the seats weren't that bad :) | John McEnroe (far left) and Mary Carillo (far right) doing the commentary for CBS Sports. |
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| Looking down at the court, switching service ends... | The sun starting to set and the moon rising over Queens... |
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| Lot's of famous people... | another famous people... (I really like Natalie) |
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| and one more famous name... | Roger serving, such style, such grace... |
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| In between sets... | Hey, I won again! I won again! |
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| Roger's kinda cute, this is from the big screen at the stadium... | Roger and the 2008 US Open trophy... |
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Sunset over Queens and the end of the 2008 US Open. |
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| There are lots more adventures with Jim
& Allison, if you haven't already checked out the
NYC page, you need to :) We have had our fun with Jim & Allison, it's time for them to head on to their next destination. Thanks for stopping and visiting! We had a great time and saw a LOT of the area around Newburgh, NY and NYC... |
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| The Jim's getting the trailer ready to travel, first things first, dump the grey and black water and then clean up and put away... | Next, get ready to hitch the trailer to the truck... |
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| The tool, a very important tool to ratchet. This is a very important ratchet tool that Allison is holding. | OH NO! The ratchet tool is broken! Is it broken? |
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| Let's try the ratchet tool just in case it does work... nope, not working. We now have to buy a new ratchet tool | Goodbye, thanks for having us, oh yeah, you come with me :) |
| You will have to check out all the other subpages to see what else we did in September (Long Island, Hudson Valley & Brandywine wine tasting, Valley Forge and Gettysburg) | |
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| I had to take a double look at this McDonald's restaurant, it looked just like a house. | The navigator is ready, the GPS is ready, so let's go! Aren't those cute toes? |
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| It's always good to know that the traffic is moving well. | Someone is driving in style, if you call a Ferrari "in style". |
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| One of the HUGE cemeteries in Brooklyn, there is no space for cemeteries in Manhattan, so everyone is buried either in Brooklyn or Queens. | One of our last views of Manhattan as we drive towards New Jersey. |
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A collage of all the signs that "helped" us get from Long Island, through Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and on over to the New Jersey Turnpike. It is not for the intrepid! GPS doesn't know everything, like whether you can take the RV through a tunnel or NOT! |
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| Brooklyn apartments | The Brooklyn Bridge from the Brooklyn side |
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| A corner of Staten Island with a very hazy Manhattan in the background and a fire boat doing it's thing. | Fort Wadsworth - has guarded the entrance to New York Harbor for over 200 years. Strategically located on the bank of the Verrazano Narrows on the Staten Island coast, it has the distinction of being the fort with the longest continuous military history in the country. |
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Pennsylvania time... We left New York and Long Island behind and headed to Pennsylvania and from there on to New Jersey... check them out on the subpages... and below... |
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| Lots of huge farms to be found all over Pennsylvania... | We were just driving down the road and I was surprised when I looked up...
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| We were staying in Lancaster County, PA, known for their Amish community. This is an Amish farm, they are harvesting their corn using horse drawn machinery. | We also went to Hershey, PA, home of Hershey Chocolate (yummo). The amusement park and water park were closed (oh darn) but the ride showing how they make the chocolate was running and the store was open.
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| Special Hershey cows... | Shop 'til you drop for anything Hershey including brown crocs with Hershey on the ankle strap :)
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| You've got to love this type of shopping! Anything and everything chocolate, made by Hershey (some you may have never seen). They also own Dagoba and Scharffenberger Chocolate and they also make the Starbucks truffles.
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My shopping basket, but it's not all for me, some was for my Mom and I shipped it to her like a good daughter. |
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| After visiting Gettysburg, we were ready for some dinner. This is the traffic circle in downtown Gettysburg, lots of neat buildings around the circle.
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We found the Dobbin House, I picked it because the building was very old... |
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| Here is the house, it is beautiful river stone. | You can see where they added on to the house, we walked downstairs between the rock house and the wood addition to the Springhouse Tavern for dinner.
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| The bar in the tavern; we had a great dinner actually, their French Onion soup was really good. | All of the plaques stating all the historic societies that the Dobbin House belongs to.
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| More historic houses as we drove through Gettysburg | nice garden at this house on the traffic circle.
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| I needed to do laundry, so we went to Intercourse, PA to the joint Laundromat and car wash. This was just down the street, a huge retail area for Amish items and souvenirs. Buses and more Buses were parked here with tourists.
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This is an Amish tour bus, they give rides (for a price...) |
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| Part of the shopping area... | Country Accents "primitive country decor" in Intercourse, PA
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After PA, we head over to Wading River, New Jersey, not too far from Atlantic City, NJ. But those stories are for the October page. We end the month of September while still in New Jersey, so there might be a few more things to see in October... |
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I leave you with this picture from the Jersey Shore, hope you had a great September... If you want to see more of the Jersey Shore watch the video below...
Kim |
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