Staycation

Time Out New York recently had a cover story headlined "Staycation," featuring ideas for ways to enjoy time off without leaving the city. John and I were inspired to spend our four-day weekend exploring our new hometown. The weather could not have been more perfect, giving us four full days to roam many parts of the island we'd never seen.

Now we're nearly worn out, having done about 20,000 steps on just one day of Staycation. (That's about 10 miles on foot.) I needed to go back to work to rest up!

Here's us heading out on the first day, walking by Lincoln Center right across from our apartment.















We took the hop-on, hop-off Water Taxi down the Hudson, out to the Statue of Liberty, then up under the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges on the East River. We didn't so much hop on and hop off as just lounge in the sun on the upper deck like a couple of lizards. Tourist lizards. Like, I guess if that Geico lizard spent a long weekend in New York?


























Here are some other random photos of us enjoying everything from Chelsea to the East Village.











Conventional wisdom is that all New Yorkers leave the city in August -- it's so unbearably hot in the concrete jungle that the only wise thing to do is to head to one's beach house, lovey.
All those folks who left this past weekend missed one of the most beautiful weekends ever. It was 80s and sunny during the day, and cool with a breeze at night, even chilly enough for a sweater. Just perfect.