Great start: Bruce Springsteen's home town Freehold, New Jersey and his former High School:
Welcome to Atlantic City, New Jersey: city of beaches and casinos...
What kind of animal is this? Looks scary, but the seagulls seem to like it...
How to lose money... and how to get money ???
Atlantic City: city of sinners ???
Delaware: small wonder with big planes in the front yard...
Welcome to Washington, D.C.:
Royal Flush? Hahaha, good name!
24 / 7 demonstration in front of the White House:
Strange sightings in front of the White House:
Vietnam veterans' Memorial and Arlington Cemetery: when will America learn from them???
John F. Kennedy's and Robert Kennedy's graves: very sad places for America and the world...
Pentagon, CIA and FBI: restricted areas can't stop these tourists...
Johnny Rockets Diner: great milk shakes, good food!
our next stop: Pennsylvania, with many memories and a picture of our Chevy HHR:
Reedsville, Patrick's home for one year, a few decades ago...
great host parents: Winston and Ginny, and a very dear friend: Holly
a visit to our ex-High School Kishacoquillas (now a middle school)
and we were lucky to meet another dear friend: Gretchen, now Zoey :-)
Amish Country...
another day, another state: New York!
Niagara Falls, a very wet place...
a wet adventure: a boat trip on the 'Maid of the Mist'
and wow, what a magnificant view in the night:
New England pure: the beautiful covered bridges in Vermont...
New Hampshire: America's Stonehenge in Salem (not comparable to the real Stonehenge)...
now it's Patrick's time: exploring the junk yards in New England...
Maine, home of the Lobster...
our tour goes on to Massachusetts, including a visit to Harvard University:
sooooooo sweet...
White Horse Beach near Plymouth, Massachusetts:
One of the absolute highlights of our trip: Whale Watching in Cape Cod Bay:
A) beautiful young flower, born in May B) Mayflower, old and beautiful
another view of the ocean in Rhode Island...
driving on to Connecticut...
a short visit to Yale University...
Start spreading the news: Welcome to the city that never sleeps: New York, New York...
"Starship Dave", a movie that will be in the cinemas in 2008:
Brooklyn Bridge, a magnificant sight!
Crazy tourists, cool locals...
Wall Street (we didn't find any money on the street):
China Town:
Greenwich Village, including Washington Square...
World Trade Center, before and after 9/11...
"Ground Zero", now a huge construction site:
Flat Iron, on the corner of 5th Avenue and Broadway:
Times Square, the heart of New York...
Next morning: waiting for Standby-Tickets for Conan O'Brien's Late Night Show (we were successful)
on the other side of the street: Pamela Anderson in the NBC studio of the Today Show
one of these jobs nobody really wants to have:
Wife shopping, husband waiting: life can be so simple...
cool insect, and Strawberry Fields (John Lennon Memorial) in Central Park:
Empire State Building: should we really go up there? (it costs $18 per person now!!!)
very windy, but good for the camera...
Bye-bye USA; the sandals collapsed on the last day...
