Tuesday October 16, 2012

 

 

Our Trip By Rail

 

We were at the train station early, so I walked outside to take a few photos.

 

 

 

 

Before long it was time for our traveling companions, our daughter Deb and son-in-law Roy,and us to prepare for departure.

 

 

 

 

Before long we were traveling through beautiful Lancaster County farmland.

 

 

 

 

A few sundrenched weeds by the track at one of our stops.

 

 

 

 

Cerwin and Roy looking over literature about the city to which we were headed.

 

 

Roy enjoying the scenery.

 

 

We were in the Quiet Car, so did our best to keep our conversation low and do a lot of reading.

 

 

Philadelphia was one of our stops before heading to the Big Apple.

 

 

After arriving at Penn Station we walked to our hotel near Times Square.

 

 

 

 

By the time we had checked into our hotel we were ready for lunch. Roy and Deb took us to a Brooklyn Diner. (If I remember correctly, there are three in NYC.)

 

 

This photo included me (it wasn’t very good), but I thought it was a great picture of Deb.

 

 

Roy’s Cuban Chicken and…

 

 

…black beans and rice.

 

 

Deb’s Reuben Sandwich. She said it was the best she had ever eaten.

 

 

Cerwin and I shared a delicious chicken sandwich.

 

 

Roy and Deb introduced us to noodle kugel

Kugels are Ashkenazi (European) Jewish dishes, traditionally served on the Sabbath and holidays. This sweet noodle kugel included raisins. Yes, noodles are the main ingredient and it was yummy.

 

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Following the meal it was time to walk off some of those calories – and we did that when we walked to another part of the city to see the aircraft carrier Intrepid (a museum) and the space shuttle Enterprise (which is stored on Intrepid’s flight deck).

This trip happened, because I was talking to Deb on the phone the day the Enterprise was being transported to New York City by air and mentioned that I would like to see it, she said, “Let’s do it.”