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From phone call to great road trip adventure!

I started blogging a few years ago when I made the cross country trip from Los Angeles, California to Wake Forest, North Carolina. Blogging turned out to be a fun experience, so now I continue to blog about all of my travels. I try to make it interesting for everyone and hope that people can travel with me through my blogging. To learn why I started blogging in the first place, just continue reading and the next paragraph will explain how it all got started. So sit back, read the post, view the pictures and travel with me via my blog.



One of my dreams ever since I can remember was to take a cross country road trip to see America. Never in a million years did I think I would realize this dream. My dream was set in motion when I answered the telephone and my son Chris (who lived in Los Angeles at the time) called to tell me he had accepted a job in New York City. He went on to say he would not be taking his car with him to New York but would be driving his car from California back to North Carolina. Light bulbs went off in my brain at that point, so I told him I would fly to Los Angeles and ride with him back to North Carolina. Thus my great road trip adventure came to be. But this is only the beginning as it hasn't started yet. We are in the planning stages of where we are going to stop along the way and what we want to see. We only have 10 days to go from west to east and so the planning begins. I hope you will follow me as I blog my way across America. I'm new at blogging so please be patient. I hope to blog daily and post pictures along the way. Thanks to Chris for making it happen and to Julie for telling me to "go for it" and to seize this "once in a lifetime opportunity". I'm glad I did!















Saturday, December 3, 2011

New York City Christmas 2011

They say there is nothing like Christmas in New York City.  I have experienced a lot of the holiday in the two days that I have been in New York.  The Christmas lights, decorations, store window displays and holiday spirit is everywhere in the city.  We spent a lot of time in Central Park although the park itself was not all that decked out for Christmas.  It was a cool but sunny day there with lots of people taking advantage of the walking and running trails.  There were also lots of people just taking a nice leisurely stroll through the park.  I'm not sure how many acres are in the park but I do know that is has a lot of trees, trails, lakes, as well as a carousel, ball field, tennis court and lots of other areas that New Yorkers can escape to when they need their outdoor space.  One of the highlights of our visit to Central Park was the Carriage Ride.  It is not a long ride, only 20 minutes, but it is among one of my favorite things that we have done so far and I recommend that if you come to the city make sure you put this on your list of things to do.

We also went to the Rockettes Christmas Show at Radio City Music Hall.  All I can say is that it was fantastic!  The music, the different set ups and so colorful.  Part of the show was a sleigh ride through New York City with Santa in 3-D.  Here are some of the pictures I took at the show. 

After the Rockettes show ended, we headed for Rockefeller Plaza to see the gigantic Christmas tree that is on display in the plaza.  I understand that they decorate this tree with Christmas lights that when laid out would be 5 miles long.  The tree was beautiful all lit up at night with ice skaters skating in the rink below.  While we was taking pictures of the tree someone through a large milkshake that landed on the ground right at our feet.  The adolescents that through the milkshake was standing only a few feet from us and we heard one girl tell the other girl "I'm not picking it up, you said you wanted it so I bought it for you".  If that cup had hit Julie or me we would have had given those girls more than just an angry glare.  As Julie stated, we would have had to gone redneck on them.  That milkshake had to be in a 32 oz cup and missed us by a hair.  Shortly after that, as we was leaving the plaza, the police had blocked off one of the streets from traffic and was telling pedestrians that were walking in the street to get on the sidewalk.  Because there were so many people in that area there was no place to walk on the sidewalk (and that is no exaggeration). One of the cops sort of zeroed in on Julie as she was walking in the street, as were lots of other people, and he specifically told her to go back to the curb and get on sidewalk.  She ignored him because she didn't realize that he was talking to her. To make a long story short she finally was able to make it through the barricade and onto the sidewalk thus alluding the long arm of the law ( LOL).     


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