Day 18 - New York

We hadn't pre-booked anything for today and had no firm plans as we thought it best to keep a day free to do anything we hadn't had time for on the other days.  Originally, I thought it might be nice to do a bit of shopping on the last day but I managed to get that done in the evenings as the shops I wanted to go to stayed open quite late and as I'm not a massive fan of shopping, going around the shops in the daytime seemed like poor use of time.

We decided to head to Central Park first thing as we had made more progress on the Bridge and Arches multi than we thought we would.  We were almost a third of the way through so we felt sure we had time to complete it– our flight wasn’t until 11pm so plenty of time left of the day.

We took the subway and then picked up a couple of citi-bikes to get us to the point we had reached last night.  Cycling isn’t allowed in a lot of areas in Central Park and the main routes through it seem to be one-way which is heavily enforced – you can get a $100 on the spot fine if you are caught – so we decided it was easier to do it on foot.

John Lennon Memorial - 75th birthday flowers

Ghostbusters Building

The bridges in this park are simply amazing

We thoroughly enjoyed our day spent walking in Central Park, the multi took us to some really interesting places and we feel now that we know the park really well after spending so much time here.  This has to be the best multi we’ve done and we’d highly recommend it - it has had 439 favourite points since 2008 and has also been Geocache of the Week so a lot of others must agree.

WAHoooo we made it to the end - fab prize!

Grand Central Terminal

We just had time to visit Grand Central Terminal before heading back to our hotel.  Grand Central Terminal covers 48 acres and has 44 platforms, more than any other railroad station in the world. Its platforms, all below ground, serve 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower, though the total number of tracks along platforms and in rail yards exceeds 100.

Then it was back to our hotel to collect our bags and hail a yellow cab to the airport.

Noooo I really don't want to go home yet, we've had so much fun.