COMING HOME FROM NEW YORK AND DAY 1 of my trip

Well, my magical trip to New York City, the one that I have been thinking about for a whole year is now at an end.  In fact, I am actually writing this blog in the dining car of the Amtrak train, somewhere in Yonkers on the trip home.


I have mixed feelings about coming home as I loved, loved my trip to NYC and I love that city and, of course, BEA.  Had a wonderful time, met some great people and walked approximately 50 miles in all over the course of the week..


Since my trip was 7 days (felt like 1 day) I thought I would do one blog post to equal 1 day


Since this time last Saturday, I was arriving, I thought I would blog about my first day in NYC - arriving Saturday, June 2, 2012.


Please check back every day as I have some terrific pictures to share with you and a ton of great new book titles:

SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 2012

I arrived in NYC after a difficult flight.  We hit quite a few air pockets - fortunately, flying doesn't really bother me so apart from a few moments of feeling a little air sick, I was fine and of course, the plane landed FINALLY!


I took the transport from Newark to my hotel which was a piece of cake.  Got the room I wanted at this hotel (which I had stayed at before) and was ready to hit the streets.  Walked and walked..

First stop - of course was The HousingWorks bookstore which turned out to be a bust as they were closed for an event (I was disappointed) but decided to hit my second favorite used bookstore in the world - The Strand.

I was not disappointed there and got a few books:

•  Saving Ruth by Zoe Fishman 
• No Safety in Numbers by Dayna Lorentz
• Free Strand Tote Bag

                         


Along the way, I saw this man, dressed as the devil on the street putting on quite the show - now I knew for sure I was in NYC!!!!

The weather was beautiful - not too hot - just perfect.  I walked back to my hotel which was 1 hour away and it felt  great to get my NYC feet in gear.

One of my favorite views as I looked up!  Beautiful.


Okay, so, as I was coming home on the train, I admitted to Cindy that I decided to do this all again next year - yep, I am going to start saving again for BEA 2013! Cindy pointed out that I vowed that I would NEVER save for anything again so far in advance, but......I just have to :)   I will be changing my BEA counter for 2013 soon.


Stay tune tomorrow for day 2.