America Holiday - Day 14 013

Day 14 - The coldest day so far took me to new heights

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December 12th 2009
Today we had another early start, 6am we were awake. It was -5C outside with a wind chill factor of -13C....thats cold! BUT STILL NO SNOW! dammit. The reason we got up so early was because we had to head downtown to battery park to catch the 900 ferry to battery park and we thought that we'd have breakfast midtown before we left, we also tried to account for peak hour on the subway which never rea ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more