It was a sad day today. We loaded up The Don II for the last time and headed off to DFW (Dallas Fort Worth) airport.
We dropped The Don II off at the Dollar rental car returns area, and he was whisked off to disappear into an ocean of other vehicles that were being brought back.
Last night we stayed at Megan and Byron’s place, and boy was that a disappointment.
Their AirBnB is advertised as a ”bed and bath”, and that pretty much sums it up. No refrigerator, no microwave, no tea and coffee making facilities, no chairs to sit on, not even a cup to drink out of … you want a drink of water? Drink it straight from the tap in the bathroom.
Let’s just say that the feedback we left them offered some areas for improvement.
And the other really weird thing was that they were in the house when we messaged them to say we had arrived, yet we never saw them from the moment we arrived to the moment we left.
Really weird.
Anyhow, we got to DFW airport, checked our bags, and had coffee and donuts for breakfast at gate E12, waiting for our flight to LGA (LaGuardia Airport, NYC).
Now I know what you are thinking … coffee and donuts for breakfast?
Well, we had some left-over donuts from a previous visit to Walmart, and we didn’t want to see them go to waste.
And besides that, when in Rome …
The flight from DFW to LGA was about 3 hours. I got a Coke Zero and a couple of packets of salted almonds (AKA “lunch”), and then we landed uneventfully at LGA in NYC at about 2.05pm.
That crazy, elusive hour … we’ve lost it going from Alabama to Georgia, found it again heading from Knoxville to Nashville, and now we’ve lost it again flying to NYC 🙁
And here we are in NYC! Cold and wet. Rain. We have barely seen that wet stuff falling out of the sky in the last 3 weeks.
We caught an Uber from the airport – approximately 15km that took us 1 hour and 7 minutes to complete. NYC traffic on a wet Friday afternoon is insanity!
We are now staying at Frances’ AirBnB in Brooklyn NYC for the next 6 nights.
We had a walking Christmas lights tour booked for tonight and they were planning to run it regardless of the weather … so we put on our thermals and headed straight back out.
We got our 7 day unlimited metro cards, so we are subway ninjas once again.
We grabbed a bite of dinner from Chick-Fil-A – like a chicken burger that was quite tasty but did nothing to offset the poor dietary choices from the start of the day.
The tour was nice, but it was hard to be enthusiastic when it rained constantly, and we got wetter and wetter as the night wore on.
The Christmas lights were very pretty though. If I understood our guide correctly, the owners of the $1M homes that were decorated actually pay for someone to come in and make their house better than everyone else’s in the street.
That can cost some thousands of dollars.
We caught the subway back home and that about wraps up the day!
Tomorrow we need to orient ourselves in the daylight, buy some groceries so that we don’t continue to eat donuts for every meal, and get out amongst it.
For those of you who are wondering, the entire driving around the South was exactly 3,650 miles or 5,875 km.
I’ve already told MBW that next time we need to also go through Kentucky, Oklahoma, Kansas, Virginia, Florida ….
I think I’m going to have to retire.
I miss The Don II 🙁
After 3,650 miles, today we spent most of the day sitting at the airport, on a plane, or in an Uber … and yet I still managed to clock up 17,580 steps.
So here we are in NYC, and loving it!
Today’s song is a bit of a Billy Joel classic, and one of my favourites … New York State of Mind (Billy Joel).
Strap yourself in and enjoy.
Ciao
#G&KTAKEUSA2019