We spent a week in New York City and upstate New York during our Rest and Recuperation break. "You need a rest break from your assignment to the Caribbean?" you ask?Here we are on the hottest new attraction in Manhattan: the High Line Park, a grassy walking trail situated on a reclaimed freight rail line 30 feet up in the air, above 10th Ave. Empire State Building is in the background.
Walking through Central Park, between stops at the Museum of Natural History and the Apple Store on Fifth Ave.
Moving up state, and keeping with the re-purposed rail line theme: the Walkway Over the Hudson in Poughkeepsie. This one is 210 feet off the ground, and is billed as the longest pedestrian bridge in the world.
Hyde Park is nearby, the home of Franklin D. Roosevelt and site of the first Presidential Library, which was launched by the President himself.
Dan relaxes with Franklin and Eleanor, in happier times