Day 600 – US – New York [Rest Day in New York]

25/11/21

 Rest day in New York (New York, North America)

A rest day in New York with my parents before going on a short break

Central Park

How sweet to spend a day like today. No agenda other than spending some time with my parents and walking around New York. We started the day watching a bit of the Thanksgiving parade around Manhattan. The parade is a 3hrs long affair going from Central Park onto 6th Avenue and around the lower part of Manhattan. A very busy, crowded and animated display of giant inflatable balloons, music and well, marching!

With my Mum and Dad in front of the Women’s Rights monument

We then went around Central Park and posed for a picture in front of the Women’s Rights Pioneers monument. “Consisting of bronze figures of Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument commemorates the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.” It was quite a fit with the cause I have endorsed for the world run and it felt like a perfect background for our reunion.

The Rockefeller Piazza Ice Rink

We walked past the ice skating rink of Central Park and later on in the evening that of the Rockefeller Center. The city is getting very festive, Christmas decorations on 5th Avenue, Christmas trees… Today being a public holiday, there was a very relaxed vibe in the streets in NYC – miles away from the stress and buzz it is known for. Later in the evening, we said our goodbyes. My parents are flying back to Europe tomorrow after a 2 weeks stay in the US, between Washington DC and New York City.

I also fly out of NYC tomorrow to go on to spend the next 10 days taking my 1st non-Covid-related break since the world run started almost 2 years ago. I will be back on the road, in Chile, on 7th December.

I will not publish a daily blog as I normally do: it’s a proper holiday! Stay tuned and see you all again on December 7th for the start of the 3rd continent crossing: South America!