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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Good Morning Base Campers!
Today we have waved goodbye to: cswchan Duke of Buckingham [TeaM] tanner2  Thank you very much for contributing to making this a great TrekAs you have hopefully noticed in your inbox, TLD has finished the vote for Base Camp's New Years Trek. You have the coordinates, so please adjust your GPS and get ready to set out as soon as you have made the Happy New Year bubbly toast with your loved ones. Nine of you voted. A sure sign that Base Camp is a free nation, as the electoral turnout in the GDR - East Germany -in its day and North Korea to this day consistently showed/shows some 99.998% voters voting. Yesterday upstairs Yvonne and I went, well, upstairs. Among other things we were at the observation decks of The Rockefeller Centre by day and of the Empire State Building by night along with as many as populate a minor island state. It was worth it on both counts. Today we're sailing: The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. |
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sunfolk
Master Cruncher Super Kiwi Socialistic Empire Of Jacinda Joined: Oct 8, 2006 Post Count: 1769 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Today we're sailing: The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Bon Voyage LM, Merryyearnewxmashappy to one and all.     [Edit 1 times, last edit by sunfolk at Dec 31, 2011 11:30:15 AM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Good Morning Base Campers!
Just a quick link to New York pictures - didn't get to Liberty and Ellis Islands - the 3-hour-line from Empire State Building had moved to Battery Park. Now we hope everybody but us have a hangover on New Year's Day New York December 29 & 30 Happy New Year  - and Happy New Years Trek - Trekmaster thread is opened, everybody is welcome to pitch in .... - and it's still a surprise to our host, I hope |
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TLD
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 22, 2005 Post Count: 804 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Lots of lines in NY, still you would not want to miss Liberty Island.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Here's hoping you get there bright & early & see it first thing. Don't want to miss the Lady.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Happy New Year from New York ♥
Went to the Radio City Rockettes Christmas Show - it was wonderful. Checked out Times Square - everybody is in a festive mood. They expect 1 mio people - the police is everywhere to take care of us - and we all wish each other a Happy New Year, on the bus, in cafés, on the street, and everybody smiles ♥♥♥ It feels like one world ♥ The New Yorkers never returned to their old aloof selves .... and we can live with that Oh, no, we shall not miss Lady Liberty, TLD, no way. If we have to we'll stand in line for three hours or more. Definitely. Yvonne & I have reservations for dinner at Alfredo. Yes, the New York brother of Alfredo in Rome, Italy, where Fettucini Alfredo was created. No more. No less. After that we'll change into battle dress and walk to Times Square ♥ Do take care each and every ♥ Base Camper ♥ |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Good 2012 Base Campers!
Our New Years Trek, Trek #33 is well under way. So far we have these Base Campers' tents sitting on the grass of our new camp ground: cswchan NAP2614 sunfolk little mermaid mike047 jan649 tanner2 TLD GTCola2010 Everybody is welcome to register at our Base Camp Forum and join this Trek that is meant to celebrate an enthusiastic hard-crunching team that came blazing in with 42 members some six weeks ago and has more than twice that number today. We never saw anything quite like it .... |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Good Morning Base Campers!
Lady Liberty is waiting - I'll be back tonight December 31 in New York City |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Woot! Can't wait to hear
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Good Evening Base Campers!
Confession To be honest I cannot keep up ... I counted who was remaining with Team USMC, and we are two visiting Musketeers and two regular Base Campers Christopher Herr [TeaM] KWSN-Gemjunkie[TeaM] Dan Holtz oliviathefirst - I'm sorry it has gotten out of hand for me, so please accept my thank you for your contributions to Base Camp's Christmas Trek all of you who moved on between now and a few days ago Base Camp's New Years Trek As to our current Trek tents belonging to deltavee dl1000v RAMMIE USAFA 82 have shot up. Welcome Touristy stuff:  As we had calculated, everybody but us had a hangover ... well almost.We were in luck. No lines at the Liberty/Ellis Island ferries whatsoever - tickets, boarding of boat went seamlessly .... Also, the weather was the prettiest imaginable, so it was one big pleasure visiting the Islands of Liberty and Ellis. Afterwards we had a perfect late lunch at the Tribeca Grill owned by Robert de Niro. You shouldn't go there because it's owned by this great actor, but because they serve food that make the angels sing and at reasonable prices. Two days earlier we tried to visit Ground Zero but couldn't get visitor passes, and today that place was closed.. You don't get anywhere as a tourist if you take a no for a no. We negotiated our way and did a good deal of footwork, literally and figuratively, and ... we got in. The memorial is beautifully created. It brings tears to ones eyes. We had already met many people have scars from that day: The computer programmer of Spanish descent on the bus with her photographic memory of the people who fell out of the building when the planes crashed into them, the police officer who knew all of his colleagues who were lost, and the city bus driver who used to bring J. P. Morgan workers to work and home again - they all perished ... I have photos and I'll make a link when I have organised them. Tomorrow we'll visit the lobby of my favourite Chrysler Building and go to MoMA. After that we'll split up. Yvonne has finally realised she shall not make a shopper out of me on this trip, so she'll cover Macy's while I'll drift around ... |
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