A Picnic Cruise on the Hudson River in New York

I have been to New York in the winter, just around Christmas time.  I have seen the window displays of the stores on Fifth Avenue. I have seen the Christmas tree and ice-skated at Rockefeller Center.  I have been there in the middle of an August heat and humidity wave.  I’ve felt the exterior walls of the city close in, only to open back up again when I saw children playing in the water from the fire hydrants.  I have not however visited during the Spring or Autumn Season.  Next week I will mark one of those seasons off of my list.

I booked a flight and a few rooms for myself and my dear friend Robert at one of the 4 star hotels.  New York, well…not sure yet if I want to live there, it has crossed my mind from time to time, but for now I do well with a visit every couple of years.  Robert and I generally don’t plan our visits, but yesterday he phoned me up to say that he made a plan, just one, one that he couldn’t resist.  Now, I have taken a dinner cruise, in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.  I have taken a happy hour/lunch cruise on Lake Michigan, as any time of day is ‘Happy Hour” in Chicago.  I took the Staten Island Ferry “Cruise” for 50 cents.  And I have gone from Newport Beach to Catalina Island, on a Dance “Cruise”.

And picnics, there are just to many to account for.  But, I have never taken a “Picnic Cruise”.  This is what Robert booked us for.  A cruise around the island of Manhattan, picnic style.  We are scheduled to leave Pier 63, this coming up Thursday, on the Hudson River. This, Robert told me, will be the best of fare, from drinks and cuisine of the neighborhood of Chelsea.  Markets and merchants from Chelsea supply everything from fresh produce to salads and root beer made in Utica, New York.

The cruise will take close to three hours, and I will be certain to bring my camera so as to capture the colors of the changing seasons on the shores, as well as the spectacular views of he George Washington and Brooklyn Bridges, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, the New York Skyline and Battery Park.  So…when all is said and done, plans aren’t so bad, as they just give one more of a sense of what to look forward to.  Can’t wait.

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