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Ghoulish Delight · 10-25-2007, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

what ever in the world impulsed you to attempt driving in Manhattan?

It was not my first choice, but we altered our travel plans at the last minute to accommodate the Ghostland Observaotry show on Friday which left us checked out of our hotel all day with nowhere to put our bags and needing to have a rental car ready for late-night departure.

It honestly wouldn't have been so bad had I done the driving at the beginning of the week. But I could literally feel my thought processes being slowed considerably by having to retrain myself to look at traffic signals first. It very difficult to simultaneously concentrate on figuring out whether any given pedestrian was actually going to walk in front of me or if he was just going to get as close as possible to the lane so as to save that extra millisecond of walking time once I passed. Either type of pedestrian was always a possibility and they are completely indistinguishable in manner until the moment that they either stop or keep going.

Kevy Baby · 10-25-2007, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

It was not my first choice, but we altered our travel plans at the last minute to accommodate the Ghostland Observaotry show on Friday which left us checked out of our hotel all day with nowhere to put our bags and needing to have a rental car ready for late-night departure.

For future reference, you can usually leave your bags at the hotel, even after you have checked out. Susan and I have done that on both of our excursions.

Actually, on our first trip (14 years ago), we actually were able to leave our luggage at a hotel in Manhattan for the day that we weren't even staying at!

I just make sure to tip the bellman well!

Ghoulish Delight · 10-25-2007, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

For future reference, you can usually leave your bags at the hotel, even after you have checked out. Susan and I have done that on both of our excursions.

Actually, on our first trip (14 years ago), we actually were able to leave our luggage at a hotel in Manhattan for the day that we weren't even staying at!

I just make sure to tip the bellman well!

This wasn't a standard hotel, it's a converted brownstone. And we needed the car anyway, so it's all the same.