October 27, 2007
Yesterday we left Lebanon Pennsylvania and headed out for our next stop, which was Liberty Harbor RV in Jersey City, New Jersey. The drive was only suppose to take about 3 hours, well we left at 9:15am and arrived at the RV/Yacht Harbor at 2pm, that was well over the 3 hours. What we went thru I would have bet we would have never arrived, but thank goodness for a guy on his bike. (I’ll get back to that)
When we left in the morning we used 2 different GPS’s, Dave’s computer one then we took the one out of our car and hooked that one up too. Should have known after 1 ½ hours when they disagreed on which highway to take, this was not going to be a good day. You have to understand when Dave is driving and a GPS is on he believes what it shows but when it talks, especially in a female voice, he doesn’t believe what it says. After the one incident last year when we drove 5 miles out of our way then he realized it was taking us to the next destination, my brother Mike still laughs about that. Anyway, once we were in New Jersey, and going thru one of the toll roads, the car GPS said, “stay on the same road” (which was I believe 78 East) now the computer one was saying stay on 78 East, same thing right? When you looked at the signs it showed 78 East 95 Holland Tunnel, which Dave said there is no way I’m going thru that tunnel because then we will be in New York City, NO WAY. So we took the other Hwy, which makes the GPS’s recalculate and try to figure out a new way to get to the RV Park. That’s when the car GPS really said something totally different then the computer one, so I said to Dave we are going to go by the computer one because it knows we are an RV the car one thinks we are just a car. (You can program the computer one so it knows the size of your vehicle, for tunnels, bridges; ect. the car one doesn’t have that option) As we are driving in the corner of my eye I can see Dave keep grabbing himself, and I don’t dare say anything because I know what that means. Normally what I do, when I know he has to go is crack a joke and really make him suffer, but not this time to stressful time right then. After going back and forth on very small streets, Dave just stops at one corner, where no one was behind us, and puts the RV in park runs to the back and pees in the bathroom, he just couldn’t hold on any more. Then when we took off again, we took a road we hadn’t already taken, which the GPS was happy with, finally! As we were driving up these little streets dodging cars that were double parked, we heard some guy on a bike yelling at us, when Dave opened the window, the guy was asking us if we were on our way to Liberty Harbor RV Park and we said “yes” he said follow me. Which we did for the next 2 miles, the guy got us there and we gave him $20 and it was well worth it, what a nightmare of an RV Park to get to, would not recommend it, with all the construction going on. Besides that construction, you don’t have sewer plus no grass and the cost is very high, find another place to stay is all I’m going to say.
After getting set-up we drove to the Liberty Park and missed the last boat to the Statue of Liberty by 3 min., the same thing that happened to us 17 yrs ago., this time though, we will be here for 4 days so we have another chance of seeing it, the last time we were just driving thru when we missed it. We then decided to go into New York City, so we drove to the train station and parked then got on the train to New York City. Why anyone would want to live here is beyond me, the bumper to bumper traffic, tons of people on the street, horns honking, it was very stressful and entertaining. Police cars with sirens going trying to get thru the traffic, which was a joke, then it starts raining and of course we left our umbrellas back in the car. Dave and I kept walking around, it wasn’t a hard rain, dodging umbrellas trying not to get our eyes poked out. We stopped in a Irish Pub to dry off and have a beer then Dave asked the bartender about a good Italian restaurant. The bartender went and asked some guy sitting at the end of the bar and this guy told him about 1 that he has been going to for 20 yrs the best in New York called “John’s”. We walked there and the food was OK but we have definitely had better. We should have trusted our guts when an Italian restaurant is named “John” After that we caught a cab to take us back to the world trade center to catch our train back to Jersey. The taxi ride was very interesting it was an E-Ticket all the way, almost as good as the taxi’s in Italy. Anyway, that was our day, today, Saturday, it is suppose to rain all day, will see what we end up doing.