Day of Rest

We will be heading home this evening. As our flight doesn't leave Newark until the evening, we won't bother to head over until 4:00 pm. Our 7-day transit cards ran out at midnight last night; therefore, we will just be taking it easy. Central Park is just across the street from the YMCA.

I promised myself not to wax too philosophical about it. Yet how forward-thinking to have created the whole middle of the island as common space! It's part of what makes Manhattan so ... New York. There seem to be places where you can forget you're surrounded by eight million people. In a city that's often raw with individualism, it's wonderful that in the mid-1800's an original 700 acres was set aside for public enjoyment.

We'll laze around after a noon checkout time and eventually take a shuttle van to EWR.