7/27/07 – We got up this morning and packed our bags to prepare to go ashore. I dropped Paul and my bag on a dock on shore and I took the boat back out to the anchorage where I set both anchors. As I was about to jump in the filthy Hudson River, I heard Paul call out to me, saying that there was a small colony of rats living in the rock pile that I was planning on climbing up to get ashore. I only hesitated for a moment before realizing that my other option was to pay extraordinary amounts of money to dock in New York Harbor so I quickly jumped into the quagmire and made it ashore.
I put a shirt on and then we walked over to a guy that was fishing to ask him where the nearest place to get public transportation was. His name was Ralph and he told us that it was a very long walk but that he would be happy to give us a ride part of the way. We got into his van and he dropped us off at the end of a path that appeared to lead into a junkyard. We walked down the path and over a short bridge going over an awful smelling swamp. We finally made it to the New Jersey Transit light rail line and took that to a train station. We got on a train that took us under the Hudson River and into Manhattan. We ate lunch at a pizza place and then went to my uncle Andy’s office to pick up the keys to his house.
We took the subway up there and dropped our stuff off and I took a shower to wash the Hudson River off me. We then took the Subway back down and visited Chinatown. We were getting hungry so we decided that the one criterion for a good Chinese restaurant was its dumpiness. We finally found the perfect restaurant: the shadiest little nook of a restaurant that we had ever seen. The food was delicious. Then we went to Little Italy and bought a cannoli. We then went over to Times Square before heading up to Margo and Andy’s house to go to bed.
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