U.S. Roadtrip: NY is for New York (state)

Yay! We made it to New York!! Even if we technically spent the night in New Jersey, in a Walmart parking lot. Not as bad as it sounds. It was a planned stop since it saves both time and money, and we are happy to save both :-) We stayed close to Jersey City and drove to Liberty State Park in the morning to take a ferry over to New York. It is a smaller mission to drive with a trailer in New York and there are several bridges and tunnels that you are not allowed to use unless you have had your trailer, primarily the propane tank, inspected. We neither wanted to spend time doing the inspection nor drive downtown NY so this was the perfect solution! However, I will get back to the bridges later...

I apologize before hand for an overload of pictures of Ground Zero and the Statue of Liberty :-]

View of Manhattan from Liberty State Park

Taking the ferry over to Manhattan

Ground Zero

The Irish Hunger memorial (looked like a Swedish wild flower field)

Same place different angle

Field and city

Kids by the Irish Hunger Memorial

Going back to New Jersey and Liberty State Park. The coast guard followed the ferry the whole way back.

After Manhattan we took the ferry back to NJ and then took the ferry to Statue of Liberty!!

Fun fact: Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the United States, best known as the location of the Statue of Liberty. The island is an exclave of the New York City borough of Manhattan, surrounded by the waters of Jersey City, New Jersey. It's complicated. Conclusion: it is a part of New York. Physically it is surrounded by New Jersey. But, politically and technically it is part of New York.

Taking the ferry to Statue of Liberty!!

Lots of people who wants to take a picture of Lady Liberty

Live size copy of the face of Liberty Lady. Fun when you can pick her nose!! Lol!

The old torch which has been replaces with a new one.

Ellis Island where immigrants used to arrive

As you might see, this is two pictures merged together.

I love this sign!!

And off we went to our bridge adventure!

As I mentioned before you had to have your trailer inspected to go on certain bridges and tunnels. We decided to avoid them, which worked fine. However, we did end up on a bridge, a double-decker bridge to be exact, and we accidentally ended up on the bottom floor. When we arrived to the toll both they told us that trailers were not allowed on the bottom floor and that we had to drive to the side and wait for the police to escort us. Making a U-turn was not really an option! So we did and we waited... after a while and not police the lade told us we could just go :-) Thank you very much and we were on the road again!

Driving illegally on the George Washington bridge in New York (totally unintentionally)