Today's the last day with the car so we'd strategically chosen New a Haven as an overnight stop so that we were in reach of New York City by midday.
After a rubbish but free breakfast made up of stale bread toasted to within an inch of its life we packed up and left.
We did mess about for about an hour filming some scenes for our upcoming movie, but more about that in about a weeks time once we've had chance to edit back home. Any way some people came over to enquire what we were doing and one may have gone off to report us to the hotel manager.
So, we hit the road, and after yesterday's rainy day, today was back to lovely sunshine. The journey was quick but the traffic in Manhattan was brutal with it taking about 20 mins to move three blocks. Martin polished off the tub of cheesy crisps that were so greasy that they could have been used as a WD40 replacement:
We ditched the car back at the Hertz garage, I don't know how we made it, it sounded awful by now with something major vibrating at the back, one of the tyres had a slow puncture and if you used the aircon then there was a loud hissing noise and water leaked onto the floor. Here are the stats of our journey, just over 2000 miles and 47 hours on the road!:
We left Hertz as quickly as possible and hailed a cab to avoid taking our luggage on the subway. During the cab journey we realised that we'd left the spicy beef jerky in the car, so as well as it being about to blow up, it would stink pretty badly too.
We were stopping in Brooklyn this time rather than Manhattan as we'd pretty much done that earlier in the holiday and its hella expensive there. We arrived at the hotel but was three hours too early for checkin so we ditched the bags and left.
On the way out Mark asked the receptionist which way to go, she asked where we were going and Mark replied "I don't know". Genius. So we git directions to nowhere and headed out on foot.
We stopped at a nice cafe for lunch, and although it was American sized it was healthy for us. Marks Turkey club sandwich however had about two kilos of Turkey in it.
There was a mall down the road so we looked around there to kill some time and ended up in Best Buy drooling over 65" 4k curved TVs.
We headed back and were allowed into four room, and as we were tired we decided to watch the F1 race. Thus wasn't easy as America doesn't do F1 so we had to download a torrent to Marks server, upload this to Dropbox and then sync it to the laptop we had with us. This took about 30 mins and we were ready to go. If you haven't seen the race then I'm about to spoil it as Hamilton gloriously beat Rosberg again in a fair fight. Just hope Bianchi survives his crash, looked nasty!
Out on the evening we went to a sports bar which had approx 400 TVs. We sat at the bar before realising that if a game is on then there is a $25 minimum order at the bar. We just ordered two drinks then ran off before anyone caught us.
We ate at a pork themed bar and Mark had the best steak sandwich ever and Martin had a pulled pork burger. Om nom nom.
After a couple more beers we had some cocktails but told the barmaid we didn't want girly ones so we ended up with whiskey based manly cocktails which blew our heads off.
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