{"id":19693,"date":"2023-02-05T07:46:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T13:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=19693"},"modified":"2023-01-16T17:41:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T23:41:43","slug":"travelling-the-50-states-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/travelling-the-50-states-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelling The 50 States \u2013 New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Over my 48 years, I\u2019ve done my fair share of travelling across these United States.\u00a0 I thought it would be an interesting experiment go look back at those trips to each of the 31 states I have visited (62% isn\u2019t bad, is it?) and see if, and when, I may be returning.\u00a0 Working in alphabetical order, we continue today with the 11th state to be added to the Union: New York.<\/p>\n

State:<\/strong> New York
\nJoined the Union:<\/strong> 1788
\nVisits:<\/strong> 3<\/p>\n

I’ve made three visits to the Empire State, two to New York City and one upstate.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My first visit to New York came in March of 2003, when the Cubs were scheduled to open their season in Queens against the Mets.\u00a0 After arriving at our Newark hotel, we took the train into Manhattan, meeting up with a friend of my traveling companion and grabbing a late dinner at the Tick Tock Diner across the street from Madison Square Garden. \u00a0During the meal, plans were made to meet up again the following day for a tour of the city.<\/p>\n

After a morning in Jersey, it was back to Manhattan, where we ditched the rental car at a church and headed out on foot for a tour of the city. \u00a0Our first stop was Ground Zero, where we saw what remained of the World Trade Center a year and a half after 9\/11. \u00a0From there, we headed to Chinatown, where we hooked up with our friend from the night before, who scored box seats for Monday\u2019s opening day tilt from the nuns that lived in her building, a welcome upgrade from the upper-level tix we had scored on eBay prior to leaving home. \u00a0The rest of the day was spent walking around and seeing the sites, including a trip to St. Mark\u2019s Comics. \u00a0Eventually, we found our way back to the car and headed back to the hotel.<\/p>\n

Monday morning was the big day and meant traveling from\u00a0New\u00a0Jersey across Manhattan, and then onto Long Island and\u00a0into Queens to get to Shea Stadium.\u00a0\u00a0We listened to\u00a0Howard Stern<\/a> on his flagship station while working through traffic.\u00a0 Eventually, we arrived at Shea Stadium, where the newly acquired Tom Glavine, a future Hall of Famer, was on the mound for the Mets.\u00a0 He made it through 2 pitches before the crowd turned on him.\u00a0 Things quickly turned south for the Mets as the Cubs scored 4 runs in the top of the first on their way to a 15-2 victory<\/a>, behind two home runs from Corey Patterson.<\/p>\n

Following the game, it was time for the long drive home.\u00a0 Unfortunately, we were stuck in Queens and had to work our way west again with the afternoon\u2019s traffic at its peak.\u00a0 We passed through the Bronx and Yankee Stadium as the hosts on sports radio WFAN were discussing the new YES network and the attempts to get picked up by cable networks in New York before the Yankees opened their season the next day.\u00a0 Eventually, we made it out of New York and were on our way back to Illinois.<\/p>\n

\"\"My second trip to the state of New York came in 2015 as part of my vacation to Toronto<\/a>.\u00a0 After a morning jaunt along Niagra Falls, my travelling companion and I headed back to the good old US of A, towards Cooperstown, NY, where the Baseball Hall of Fame beckoned.\u00a0 After heading to the center of town and parking at fabled Doubleday Field, we entered the museum. \u00a0There aren\u2019t enough words to describe all that was seen at the Hall of Fame. \u00a0All of the baseball history you could shake a stick at, except for the portion covering the 70s through the current day, which had closed down for renovations that very day. \u00a0Finally, we entered the Hall of Fame Gallery, housing the plaques honoring each player voted into the Hall. \u00a0My first destination, after the centrally located first class, was the previous year\u2019s electees, where I found both Frank Thomas and Greg Maddux.<\/p>\n

After leaving the Hall, we found out a sad fact of life in Cooperstown between Labor Day and Memorial Day: absolutely nothing is open. \u00a0Restaurants, amusements, basically anything that we wanted to do was closed. \u00a0We ended up back in the hotel for the entire afternoon before attempting to head out to dinner, where again our first few choices were shut down.\u00a0 The following morning, we headed back to Canada.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My most recent trip to New York was a quick weekend affair.\u00a0\u00a0Danny, Michael, and I flew to New York on a Friday night, where we met up with Angelina and had dinner with the family she was nannying for.\u00a0 Saturday was a glorious spring day, spent sight-seeing at the 9\/11 Memorial & Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, Central Park, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Empire State Building.\u00a0 On Sunday, we went to Broadway, spending the day at the Lyric Theatre watching both parts of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child<\/em>.\u00a0 Since the boys had school on Monday, we were on the first flight back to Chicago early Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over my 48 years, I\u2019ve done my fair share of travelling across these United States.\u00a0 I thought it would be an interesting experiment go look back at those trips to each of the 31 states I have visited (62% isn\u2019t bad, is it?) and see if, and when, I may be returning.\u00a0 Working in alphabetical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3268],"tags":[2375,7909,275,7911,903,120,298,5882,3351,7913,84,887,3350,7912,7871,44,849,7908,3347,1522,261,7910,5814,612,3352,3346,2934,3355,2374],"class_list":["post-19693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-2375","tag-9-11-memorial","tag-arm","tag-central-park","tag-corey-patterson","tag-cubs","tag-dlm","tag-doubleday-field","tag-ebay","tag-empire-state-building","tag-frank-thomas","tag-greg-maddux","tag-ground-zero","tag-guggenheim","tag-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child","tag-hof","tag-howard-stern","tag-lyric-theatre","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-mdm","tag-mets","tag-museum-of-the-city-of-new-york","tag-niagara-falls","tag-shea-stadium","tag-st-marks-comics","tag-tick-tock-diner","tag-tom-glavine","tag-wfan","tag-world-trade-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19693"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19912,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19693\/revisions\/19912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}