WILLIAMSBURG
Only having travelled by budget airlines, this was new, although I'd paid, it felt like the food, blankets, pillows, films and a beautiful lady to my left, the isle to my right was all free. Heaven! Direct heaven from London to New York, the furthest from 'home' I'd ever been.
The beautiful blonde to my left was visiting friends in the city, she seemed quite adventurous and inquisitive, and so together, we enquired as to what the lady to her left, the portly American Police Officer blocking our view from the window was doing. Much to our dismay, she'd been visiting London to see the Royal Wedding, complimented the whole event along with the policing and crowd control. We entertained her idea of the perfect event, only to chuckle about it hours later in the Passport check queue. Passport check was somewhat more in-depth that I'd expected, facial and finger scans. But I skipped away into the new play ground as the Passport/Boarder Control man shouted 'Try to keep out of trouble' behind me... good advice!
The beautiful blonde to my left was visiting friends in the city, she seemed quite adventurous and inquisitive, and so together, we enquired as to what the lady to her left, the portly American Police Officer blocking our view from the window was doing. Much to our dismay, she'd been visiting London to see the Royal Wedding, complimented the whole event along with the policing and crowd control. We entertained her idea of the perfect event, only to chuckle about it hours later in the Passport check queue. Passport check was somewhat more in-depth that I'd expected, facial and finger scans. But I skipped away into the new play ground as the Passport/Boarder Control man shouted 'Try to keep out of trouble' behind me... good advice!
What a night, my first night in NY, in fact my first night out of Europe (Morocco is Eur-Africa and so doesn't count), I was greeted by Shane and Rebecca, my hosts, then taken to the pub to meet Moe, Eric and some of the other guys. Having been made to feel welcome, we then split into two groups, one to climb the Hell Gate Bridge, and the other, myself included, to visit the Williamsburg Bridge and persuade a group of hipsters not to have a party on the bridge top.
After finding the hipsters were running a smooth operation, we decided the leave be, but also not climb, and the two groups continued with similar parallel paths, the other going to visit essentially an empty concrete box underground, while we ran live tunnels. After this we all stopped running parallel, as we exited and headed home, the others exited with gun barrel marks left on the back of their heads and sore knees (possibly by the portly woman on the flight) as the special bomb-squad police escorted them out,
Patiently waiting for a call from the other group regarding a trip to the home of Big Willy (Little Philly), instead Shane received a call from the New York Post, explaining what had gone down and requesting an image of the concrete box.
With this being such big news, check out what Howard Stern had to say about the matter:
After finding the hipsters were running a smooth operation, we decided the leave be, but also not climb, and the two groups continued with similar parallel paths, the other going to visit essentially an empty concrete box underground, while we ran live tunnels. After this we all stopped running parallel, as we exited and headed home, the others exited with gun barrel marks left on the back of their heads and sore knees (possibly by the portly woman on the flight) as the special bomb-squad police escorted them out,
Patiently waiting for a call from the other group regarding a trip to the home of Big Willy (Little Philly), instead Shane received a call from the New York Post, explaining what had gone down and requesting an image of the concrete box.
With this being such big news, check out what Howard Stern had to say about the matter:
With the lack of a Big Willy visit, the only thing the next day could logically call for was a different Willi! Williamsburg climb time it was, with thanks to Shane for taking me!
With his release, Eric, Shane, Rebecca, Moe and myself all watched the feature on Fox, and to our surprise, as well as showing the work of NY bridge climbers, was the site of Snappel, the post shown put online the day I left for the states!
With his release, Eric, Shane, Rebecca, Moe and myself all watched the feature on Fox, and to our surprise, as well as showing the work of NY bridge climbers, was the site of Snappel, the post shown put online the day I left for the states!