October 2, 2012

So much for quiet nights.  When we went to bed at 10:00, ConEd was still working out in the street below us.  Then at about 4:30 a.m. we were awakened by a guy tossing trash into a garbage truck.

After breakfast at the hotel we checked out and took our bags to Penn Station.  Then we walked uptown on Fifth Avenue.  Here's the Plaza Hotel and a fountain in front of it.

 

















 We walked through Central Park one more time.  This time it was a lot quieter.

After a while it started to rain, so we took the subway back to the train station.   The post office is right across the street from the station.

We had lunch in the station at T.G.I. Friday's.  The Crescent was scheduled to leave at 2:15, but we didn't actually leave until 2:30.  As we left we saw the Acela, Amtrak's high-speed train, on a track above us.

We had three private cars on the back end of our train, including this one.

By the time we got to Washington D.C. it was getting dark, but we had glimpses of some of the landmarks, lighted through the fog.  By bed time we were 30 minutes late.

Total miles walked today:  4.7