New York, New York, Part 2 or Planes, Trains, Taxis and Buses

My second trip to the Big Apple took place in the summer of 2000 with a friend and her teenage stepdaughter. We stayed with the friend's family in New Jersey but went into Manhattan most every day. The one major mistake of this trip was trying to save money and fly into Islip, New York and take the train into NYC. Once you land in Islip you have to get a taxi to get to the train station which means transferring your luggage several times. Once we got to Penn Station we had to haul our luggage around Manhattan to find the Broadway theater where her brother was working. This was not the fun part and unfortunately we had to do the whole process again in reverse only this time the train had a problem on the way to Islip so we had to get off the train and haul our luggage onto a bus that took us to the train station where we then had to get a taxi to go to the airport. It definitely had the makings for a bad movie. Fortunately the rest of the trip was good. This trip we took the boat around the island of Manhattan and you truly do get a whole new perspective including the reason they can build so many huge buildings in such a small geographic area is that it is made of rock. We were fortunate to see the show Footloose from the second row. The stepdaughter was not thrilled about having to do so much walking but other than that it was a great trip.