Photos are on Flickr at April 2009 NYC-Sardinia-Madrid Day - Thursday April 16 I arrived at my niece's on Long Island yesterday after a 2 hour delay in Philadelphia. She lives in Ronkonkoma. I went into NYC today. She of course went into work much earlier. Her neighbor took me to the train station at 9 because I had to meet the tour group at noon. I rode the LIRR (Long Island Rail Road) for over an hour passing garbage strewn all along the right of way. There were many building adorned with the latest graffiti artist's work. We stopped every 5 to 10 minutes at stations with names like Ronkokoma, Wyandach, Islip and Bethpage.The scenery was all people, cars, trucks, buses, buildings, housing developments, and the only open spaces were cemeteries. The train was relatively
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