Day 8

We were still packing as the cleaning lady was hurrying us up. We went for the Subway and down to the World Trade Centre. I thought I would look for an Aussie flag to show Zuz. In the end I was looking all day long. I eventually found one, on my shirt. Talk about absent minded : ) From there we walked to Wall street, on to Fulton Square and markets and toward the Brooklyn Bridge. Finally we found how to get onto it and took a stroll up to the pylon. A pretty cool looking bridge with good views of the New York skyline. It was time to leave New York so back to the hostel to pick up the bags (including the cement filled suitcase) and cab it to the bus station. We caught the 4:00pm bus to Washington D.C. It was a fairly slow trip especially out of Manhattan and arrived in D.C. at 8:15pm.

I always like to utilise my learnings so we stashed the suitcase in a locker at the bus station. Thank God they were there. We walked about 500m to the train station to travel out to our hostel. Luckily it was only a short walk when we got off the train. The place was called 'India House' and was an awesome hostel even if it was a challenge to get up the stairs to the room. The dude who ran the place was a gem. Real funny guy and Zuz always seemed to be laughing at him.