JERSEY CITY AND NEW YORK CITY

August 30-31, 2023

This post will be a photo essay since we have so many great photos from the last two days. We’ve been in Jersey City across from Manhattan waiting for the waves to settle down and decided to be tourists. Here we go:

A view of the super moon, blue moon rising over lower Manhattan on August 30 – what a sight!

A trip to Ellis Island – notice the tiled ceiling. During renovation, only 35 of the 17,000 needed to be replaced. But there was a lot of restoration required to get to this point. And it continues today working on the infirmaries and hospital buildings.

Lynn found this photo of people that immigrated from her grandmother’s town in Hungary.
Her grandmother came through Baltimore but also moved to Chicago.

A beautiful day – leaving Ellis Island

Inside the Jersey Central terminal where the Ellis ferry leaves from – notice the iron work in the rafters.

Took the early evening ferry to Manhattan and stopped at the World Trade Center Memorial

We met Tom and Hank in Key West and he’s here at the same marina in Jersey City. Tom is training to be a captain. Was CFO of Fortune 100 company and took a package last year –

he’s living his dream.

He invited us to join him on the sunset cruise on America 2.0 while he was working last night

As we were leaving the dock, there was a regatta coming down the river.

And here’s Tom at the helm avoiding the smaller sail boats.

The cruise offered beer, wine, champagne – we had a great time. Perfect wind and weather.

Lynn, Rod, Tom and James ( his friend) aboard America 2.0. Another captain was at the helm.

The sunset was magnificent.

The Colgate clock – a landmark to our marina – but also reminds Rod of his first job out of Wharton.

Another shot of the skyline with the moon rise from the boat

A busy, but fun filled day yesterday. Today we’re cleaning the boat, the dog, and getting ready to leave tomorrow. The seas and wind are dying down so we should pull out at 7:00 am.