Burntside Adventures: New York City

We have spent the last 2 days at the Liberty Landing Marina in Jersey City, right across the Hudson River from Manhatten and the World Trade Center. We anchored Friday night just off the Staue of Liberty and pulled into the marina mid morning Saturday, June 1. It's a huge marina with 500+ slips, and gave us excellent access to the downtown New York area and Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. There was a ferry just a hundred yards from our slip that takes people across the Hudson to downtown every 30 minutes, so on Saturday afternoon we did just that. I wanted to see the 9-11 Memorial, and then we found a number of other places to see, St. Paul's Chapel, which dates to the 1700's, and George Washington prayed after bing elected, and Trinity Church where Andrew Hamiltonand Robert Fulton are buried. Then found the National Archives and a Smithsonian exhibit on the native population of the western hemisphere. At the end of the afternoon went looking for a beer and I really wanted a cheese steak sandwich, so we walked into a pub. Cindy noted it was all men and no women and that they looked at her funny and I probably wouldn't want to be there, so we found another bar with a good beer, bad sandwich and worse service. Yesterday I did a little work on our propane line which developed a very slow leak. Biked to an Ace Hardware through a bad New Jersey neighborhood to an Ace Hardware that had no hardware. Unbelievable. So I fixed it for now and will get the fittings I need down the line. In the afternoon we took the ferry to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty which was just awesome. In the evening we got together with 8 other boats that are doing the loop for a little happy hour and today are heading up the Hudson.