Today was our last day in New York and we still hadn’t seen the Brooklyn Bridge 
, Grand Central Station or Ground Zero itself. So with the few hours we had left, we decided to jump in several cabs and dart around New York seeing a few of the last remaining sights.
We started with Ground Zero and although all tickets to see the memorial sell out months in advance we were able to see it from a distance. The memorial garden has been designed around two square waterfalls that have been built on the exact same spots that the two towers stood. Its a fitting and beautiful memorial that sits next to what will be a great piece of architecture, the new World Trade Tower, currently almost half built.
After Ground zweo, the next cab took us to Brooklyn and over the Brooklyn Bridge, we walked the full length of the bridge back to Manhattan with great views of the skyline along the way before visiting Grand Central Station, which is far more impressive than any train station should be, and a quick dash around Macy’s for last minute shopping.
New York has been really good fun and has some of the best sights in America, especially the view from the top of the Empire State Building, the lights on Times Square and the Manhattan Skyline. Having said that, I couldn’t spend more than about a week here, the people are way too impatient and nowhere near as friendly as the rest of America. There’s also not really any green space outside of Central Park. I’d say it’s a very impressive looking city but it’s not very ‘pretty’. Maybe it’s just me because Jen says she could happily live here (although she concedes that she’d need to be very rich to enjoy it properly).
Anyway, after our last 200 mile cross country drive, we are now back in Boston, where we started 90 days ago, and tomorrow we fly home. So that’s us pretty much done and that’s this blog pretty much done. Dont log off yet though, we’re going to put up one more blog post later on with a few of our photos and our Jerry Springer like ‘final thoughts’.