New York City

Day 1 Manhattan

Downtown Manhattan is unreal! Having been in two very large Spanish cities, Barcelona and Madrid, I thought I was prepared for the sheer size of New York City but I was mistaken. The city is enormous, breath-taking, and awe-inspiring.


From the metro station we blazed a trail through the city to see as many free stuff as we could. The first was the Empire state building. Which was a wee bit over the budget to justify going to the top. But it was quite an impressive view from the ground. Let alone the city itself at this point.





After that we also went over and saw Madison Square Garden.



There is a very special Burger King called the Whopper Bar. Quite comical really.


Then off to Times Square. I can only imagine this place full of people during New Years or other special events.






There was a very conveniently placed recruitment center in downtown. Woot Woot for our Armed Forces!


Amen for all those that protect us. Thanks Tony and Josh.


We walked around the Rockefeller Center and saw an impressive set of buildings and businesses. And thankfully there was also a Chipotle nearby. For that matter, if you check google maps, there are like 25 Chipotle’s in the Manhattan area of New York City, and none in Queens, the area we are staying in. Sad…





The Museum of Modern Art is also in one of the Rockefeller buildings. This museum is dedicated to modern contemporary art. We took advantage of Friday Free Afternoon’s and got in for free. It has some nice pieces but our favorites were actually of some famous Spanish artists (In Barcelona we were going to go to a Dali museum to see the melting clocks painting, then we searched online and found out it wasn’t even there and so we searched for where 4
it was and found that it was here in NY and we were excited, knowing we would travel to there next).






This was an interesting sign in the lobby of the Modern Art Museum


This is for you Josh and Rachel.



We at lunch in Central park. It was beautiful and very relaxing in comparison to the endless activity on NYC.





We saw some more classic places such as City music hall and Carnegie hall.





There is just so many people and so much to see that just when we thought we had seen it all this is what we found!



Sorely missed while away in Costa Rica and Spain!

Day of Travel

Here are our playing cards that we bought in a store in Costa Rica and have played everywhere we have gone.



Traveling is never easy. It wears on your body, mind, and soul. Regardless if it’s by train, bus, metro, plane, car, donkey, bobsled, or Canadian dog sleds.

However, returning one’s country soothes that majority of that pain.




Hello United States of America! Are we glad to see you!!!!

Last visit to Barcelona

So we arrived in Barcelona from Amposta by train on Saturday. We leave Barcelona to head back to the states on Thursday. We have 5 nights and about 4 days to soak in the Spanish culture for the last time on this trip and then we are back in the states. This time we stayed in a different part of Barcelona and we are near the Plaza Espana and the main train station. We are staying with a couple from Holland (the girl)and Chile (the guy) and they live on the top floor of an apartment building. They have a great view and also the top terrace is all to themselves, so we have enjoyed eating up there with the beautiful views and listening to music and just relaxing.

We walked over to Plaza Espana on a few different days to check it out. Its pretty incredible. Here are some pictures of it…






We met up with another Spanish couple, Maite and Jon, that we met at Pueblo Ingles. The actually had 2 Aussies staying with them, who had also been at Pueblo Ingles, and we went Tapa Bar hopping. It was super enjoyable. You select the tapa (a small portion of a specific food) and then hold on to your toothpicks and then they add the toothpicks together and you pay per toothpick.