"I missed you in New York!" "No, you didn't. I didn't go. I'm not setting foot in your country again while he's there."

[Jack Valentino]

55. EVERYTHING is 'very expensive in New York', as I understand it,

and 'High-Chair Hitler' certainly hasn't been improving that economy...


I spent some time in various areas of New York state,
on a family camping-travel vacation in the mid-1970's in my youth...

We visited various historical battlefields and venues,
Gettysburg PA, Independence Hall in Philadelphia PA,
Jamestown, colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown and Richmond VA---
(where I was still wearing my 'Union Army" cap purchased in Gettysburg,
and sundry southerners asked me "are you a Yankee?"
when it should have been obvious! LOL)

((and now it seems that this question was meant to intimidate me,
but I was too young to discern that properly, about 11 years old but already a fan of U.S. history,
and merely answered honestly, 'yes I guess I am'! ))

Anyway, back to New York City---
I guess we viewed it from across the river,
but both of my parents said,
'we can't drive into that city while pulling a popup-camper trailer'!

LOL

We did camp in the 'Finger Lakes' region, as I recall....

Also visited 'Fort Niagara' in the westernmost portion of the state---
which also has one of the oldest surviving buildings in North America,
originally build by the French I think--- the barracks building of the fort!
(sometime around 1703 as I recall it as it was taught to me---)

ANYWAY, that was a GREAT TRIP---
although my slightly older sister did not enjoy it AT ALL---
except for the part where she carried our pet miniature schnauzer
onto a subway from New Jersey to Philadelphia,
in a backpack!

Think that whole vacation was in 1974