NYC

We arrived in New York City on Monday at 3 pm. I lived there for 4 months last year, so I am fairly familiar with the city, but Biff had never been, so we decided to just move quickly and see as much as possible. We got on the subway and went straight to Manhattan for a slice of pizza. Then we began lugging our luggage through the booming metropolis. We looked at the World Trade Center, which was very amazing and somewhat emotional. Next we took a brief walking tour of the area and went down to the water to look at the Statue Of Liberty and Ellis Island. At that point it was time to head to Jersey City for our welcome barbecue at Ian Stewart's beautiful brownstone apartment. There were about 15 people at this backyard barbecue (in the photo), and it consisted of a wide variety of delicious food and beer.



Eventually, we went out to the local Jersey City watering hole, deciding that we had a full day and night in Manhattan and Brooklyn coming up, so we didn't need to make the trek that evening. The owner of the bar happened to be sitting at the bar drinking, and was so inspired by our journey that he demanded we not pay for any alcohol. We couldn't argue too much, and before we knew it we had had more shots than we needed, and went home. We folded our laundry and went to bed.



The next morning we woke up, had breakfast and headed to the city. We went into Williamsburg (in Brooklyn) first, to drop off our luggage at our temporary home for night 2. Next we walked through Williamsburg, the hipster capital of the world. We got back on the Subway and went to Union Square. From there we did a walking tour of the city, going to Washington Square, the East Village, Noho, NYU, and Greenwich Village. Then we took the subway to Central Park, took a brief tour and got back on the subway. We went to Rockafeller Center and Times Square, then we walked west to the Colbert Report studio, where we had VIP tickets for the taping.



After watching a hilarious episode of the Colbert Report, we caught the subway down to St. Marks Place. We walked around there a bit, and ate dinner at a small Venezuelan restaurant. Then we walked over to Mcsorley's, the oldest remaining bar in New York City, and had the beer that they brew in-house. Then we went back to Brooklyn, had a beer with my former British roommate, Richard Robinson, checked out the skyline from the rooftop and went to bed.



This morning, we got up at 5:30 and got on the subway headed for the airport. We were very unlucky with our subway connections, and did not arrive at JFK until 7:32, for our 7:55 flight. We rushed through security and ran through the terminal, boarding the plane 60 seconds before the doors closed. Here we are in Denver, for the Great American Beer Festival.

Best beer in NYC: Brooklyn Lager

Total Flying Time: 33 Hours 45 Minutes


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