Today was my last day in New York City before I was catching a flight back to Los Angeles and starting my Trek America Tour around the USA for 64 nights. I spent all day in Central Park doing more exploring of places I wanted to go to but missed out on beforehand. It was a lonely day because the last 10 or so days I'd had company now I’m wandering around this massive city by myself which felt a little intimidating. I got some fantastic photos of the city skyscrapers towering over the trees in Central Park but apart from that it was a very relaxing and quiet day today. After wandering around Central Park for a few hours I went back to the hostel to pick up my bags and hung around until it ... read more

While staying in New York City we had heard about this famous deli called "Katz Delicatessen". It was a while out of the way but we decided to go check it out and experiance a true New York City Deli. We walked in at straight away a guy gave us a blue docket which we had to hold onto. There was loads to choose from and it took me a while until I decided on at turkey sandwich with lettuce and mayo. I put in my order with the Sandwich maker who then while making my sandwich put some turkey on a small plate for me to try first, it was fantastic, really good turkey. He offered me some me some pickles with my meal which I declined and went to eat my lunch, it was ... read more

Got up today and again met with Amy to go explore downtown manhattan. We hopped on the subway and headed for Wall Street to check it out. When we arrived we began to walk down Wall street looking at the real business end of New York City and before long ended up at the New York Stock Exchange which had the biggest American flag i've ever seen draped on the outside. It was a beautiful old building which stood opposite a statue of George Washington and Federal Hall, another beautiful building full of American history. We tried to get a closer look at the New York Stock Exchange but realised that it is closed to public and fenced off around the entire building with plenty of security roaming around. We continued on down Wall Street taking ... read more

Today I hardly did anything, it was a really lazy day today. I got up and met with Amy to help her move to another hostel, but when we got there they hadn't received her booking for whatever reason and had to refuse her, they were totally booked out. Most of the day we were actually looking for another hostel for her to stay at. She had another friend come by that she was going to stay with and eventually found a hotel to stay at. It's amazing how hard it is to find a bed whether it’s in a hostel or even hotel in New York at late notice. It took almost all day, yet she found a place and decided to catch up with her friend for the rest of the day. Late afternoon ... read more

Slept in a little longer today which was good because I needed to catch up on some extra sleep. Today I met up with Amy and caught the subway to downtown Manhattan to go see the Statue of Liberty. We arrived at the train station right at the tip of Manhattan and could see the statue in the distance already. There were loads of people around taking pictures from the station, I was one them, I couldn't believe I was actually staring at the Statue of Liberty. We walked around to the ferry to catch it to Liberty Island when I thought it was time to try my first New York hot dog, it was awesome. We eventually got the the ferry and there were so many people in a massive, massive queue that seemed to ... read more