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Panama Canal Crosser
First off; 2-Screws is 2 Propellers (for you non nautical peepers). And no direct *** pics... u perv's!, sorry! ...hey, but this is a KJ report so some of my pics may be themed as per this ride report (my private pics will stay that of course).
SSH (skin-showing-haters) should not continue.
---You've been warned!---
I put up a lot of pics cuz it's blah winter here and I'm bored out of my mind. To save my image host some bandwidth I made the images smaller and compressed them a bit more than normal (so they may have a tad bit of pixelization). Quantity overruled quality one might say... at least this time.
Ride Start/Return: Syracuse NY
Ride Destination: Warmth! AKA: The Caribbean
Total Miles: RoundTrip 5,820 (5,260 by 2-Screws, GPS Tracked)
Duration: 9 Days
Who dat went: Me (KJ) and g/f Debbie
Eateries: Too fargen much of everything. Gained 7lbs.
Drinking Holes: 12 bars on the ride, $1K bar tab in the end plus I snuck in eight (8) 2L. bottles of wine for our balcony usage! That was a whole entire lg. carry-on and the scanner dude let me slide thru on the corkage fees!
...yes I thinkwe I have an eating and drinking disorder!
Let's get this fugger in motion...
(3-weeks ago) Bored and cold here in Central NY, I told Deb to pack her bags, were going for a ride, just bring warm weather clothes. Yeah right, she made me tell her. She sucks with surprises, Italian women! ugh!
Hopping the Amtrak at 6:50am. Neither one of us took the train before (Train-Vigins!). It took us thru NY State from 'Cuse (Syracuse) down to NY's Penn Station in 5.5hrs. Damn train fly's at well over 100mph!
Albany NY (da State Capitol)
One of the 8 stops (Rensellear NY just SE of Albany) I get out for a walk and find we are getting juiced-up with diesel
Modern Train Stations, my HO-Train Set never had buildings like this!
Debbie's snoozing with her earbuds in. Me? Heck no!, techno boy has to play! Whipping out the GPS I see we're booking down the tracks smooth as hell at a buck ten. Fastest recorded was 114mph. I really never knew trains hauled *** like that TBH.
Hudson River, just north of SingSing Prison
Southside of SingSing Prison (Ossening NY). In the old days/movies, if you ever heard the term "were going to send you up the river!" well this was where they were talking about...
Just south of the 'Sing, we meet the "Tappan Zee Bridge" I-87 & I-287
Getting into Upper Manhattan just before we go underground we duck under the "Geo Washington Bridge". Been over it many of times, sure looks higher up on it than it did down below.
Penn Station is kinda like a big shopping mall several levels below the street level
We come up to street level (finally!) Madison Sq Garden / Penn Sta. entrance. Our energy level just went up 100%, the city just does this to you... well plus we were getting excited for our next part of the trip
Being from the 'Cuse area, and having 2 Sisters graduate from SU how appropriate is it that we get the Cuse Mobile for out taxi over to Pier 89. Yes, our whole family bleeds Orange. Deal with it
Glad I'm not driving in this rat race
Taxied to Pier 89, the terminal to checkin. Nothing new as this will be my 12th Cruise so it's wait n watch others, pretty boring.
On the Ship, stowed out carry-on's (and all that Wine!). Go up on a deck only to find friggen SNOW! WTF! We're trying to get away from this crap! Oh yeah, the weather was turning crappy, wats new?
4pm, time to set us under motion el'Capitain. The speakers start blaring "Start spreading the news.... New York, New York!" kinda thought I was at Yankee Stadium
One of the Space Shuttles (under the canopy's). I think it was the Enterprise if memory serves correct.
Heading South down the Hudson, kinda cool to look right down the streets
Freedom Tower, right next to where the Twin Trade Towers were. Music plays to "Proud to be an American". I think everybody took in the moment and it was actually quite serious as it should of been.
Starboard side getting into the mouth of the Hudson
Verrazonow Narrows Bridge, it connects Brooklyn (east) to Staten Island (west) and the very last form of NY we will see for 9 days, yahoo!
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SSH (skin-showing-haters) should not continue.
---You've been warned!---
I put up a lot of pics cuz it's blah winter here and I'm bored out of my mind. To save my image host some bandwidth I made the images smaller and compressed them a bit more than normal (so they may have a tad bit of pixelization). Quantity overruled quality one might say... at least this time.
Ride Start/Return: Syracuse NY
Ride Destination: Warmth! AKA: The Caribbean
Total Miles: RoundTrip 5,820 (5,260 by 2-Screws, GPS Tracked)
Duration: 9 Days
Who dat went: Me (KJ) and g/f Debbie
Eateries: Too fargen much of everything. Gained 7lbs.
Drinking Holes: 12 bars on the ride, $1K bar tab in the end plus I snuck in eight (8) 2L. bottles of wine for our balcony usage! That was a whole entire lg. carry-on and the scanner dude let me slide thru on the corkage fees!
...yes I think
Let's get this fugger in motion...
(3-weeks ago) Bored and cold here in Central NY, I told Deb to pack her bags, were going for a ride, just bring warm weather clothes. Yeah right, she made me tell her. She sucks with surprises, Italian women! ugh!
Hopping the Amtrak at 6:50am. Neither one of us took the train before (Train-Vigins!). It took us thru NY State from 'Cuse (Syracuse) down to NY's Penn Station in 5.5hrs. Damn train fly's at well over 100mph!
Albany NY (da State Capitol)
One of the 8 stops (Rensellear NY just SE of Albany) I get out for a walk and find we are getting juiced-up with diesel
Modern Train Stations, my HO-Train Set never had buildings like this!
Debbie's snoozing with her earbuds in. Me? Heck no!, techno boy has to play! Whipping out the GPS I see we're booking down the tracks smooth as hell at a buck ten. Fastest recorded was 114mph. I really never knew trains hauled *** like that TBH.
Hudson River, just north of SingSing Prison
Southside of SingSing Prison (Ossening NY). In the old days/movies, if you ever heard the term "were going to send you up the river!" well this was where they were talking about...
Just south of the 'Sing, we meet the "Tappan Zee Bridge" I-87 & I-287
Getting into Upper Manhattan just before we go underground we duck under the "Geo Washington Bridge". Been over it many of times, sure looks higher up on it than it did down below.
Penn Station is kinda like a big shopping mall several levels below the street level
We come up to street level (finally!) Madison Sq Garden / Penn Sta. entrance. Our energy level just went up 100%, the city just does this to you... well plus we were getting excited for our next part of the trip
Being from the 'Cuse area, and having 2 Sisters graduate from SU how appropriate is it that we get the Cuse Mobile for out taxi over to Pier 89. Yes, our whole family bleeds Orange. Deal with it
Glad I'm not driving in this rat race
Taxied to Pier 89, the terminal to checkin. Nothing new as this will be my 12th Cruise so it's wait n watch others, pretty boring.
On the Ship, stowed out carry-on's (and all that Wine!). Go up on a deck only to find friggen SNOW! WTF! We're trying to get away from this crap! Oh yeah, the weather was turning crappy, wats new?
4pm, time to set us under motion el'Capitain. The speakers start blaring "Start spreading the news.... New York, New York!" kinda thought I was at Yankee Stadium
One of the Space Shuttles (under the canopy's). I think it was the Enterprise if memory serves correct.
Heading South down the Hudson, kinda cool to look right down the streets
Freedom Tower, right next to where the Twin Trade Towers were. Music plays to "Proud to be an American". I think everybody took in the moment and it was actually quite serious as it should of been.
Starboard side getting into the mouth of the Hudson
Verrazonow Narrows Bridge, it connects Brooklyn (east) to Staten Island (west) and the very last form of NY we will see for 9 days, yahoo!
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