A 11-day USA & Canada trip covered Manhattan, Philadelphia, Washington D.C, New Jersey and Toronto. Activities included sight seeing, shopping, photo shooting, enjoying food, wine tasting, meeting friends old and new, also yoga workshops. The weather was a little bit chill than what we expected in the first few days but it started warming up with the beautiful sun shine. All the way, 7 of us were companied with greenery landscape, colorful flowers, birds and wide-open sky. Intensive and worthy trip.
In the first 4 days uptown, middletown and downtown NY city tour, we experienced the energetic New York city life. Our footsteps reached most of the landmarks like Zero Ground, Wall Street, South Street Seaport, Korean Street, Chinatown, Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park, Park Central Hotel, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Soho, Little Italy, Time Square, Empire State Building, City Skywalk, subway stations etc… Fantastic!
Early start on the 5th day, we traveled 15 hours on the mini bus to Toronto, Canada. By this route, we managed to feel the spectacular Niagara falls from US and CA side. For the 6th, 7th & 8th day, we met Wendy and Roger and visited their Yoga studio. We practiced Yoga together with her students and we took the Aerial yoga workshop by Wendy. We had a King Crab & Lobster dinner with them and very lucky to be invited to a grand BBQ dinner at their place. Also, we went to the winery at the Niagara-on-the-Lake and a little bit shopping for another day. Excellent!
On the 9th day, the highlighted activity had started, we spent half-day at the Woodbury outlet village. In the night time, we met Lily in New Jersey, who was taking care of our shopping, breakfast & snacks, the famous donuts from her shop! The 10th day was intensive. We had travelled across 3 states of USA - New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland in one day to visit the historical cities of America, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. Ending up on the 11th day with light shopping at Costco, famous wholesaler and stopped by the same University where Albert Einstein went to, Princeton University. Magnificent!
Quotes from the team:
“It seems I did not shop much”
“Window shopping is all good for me”
“This meal is even better than the last one, honestly”
“LOL”
Joyce King
