After four days in Philadelphia, we left very early in the morning and headed to New York City for the last leg of our vacation. We had planned to visit the Statue of of Liberty and Ellis Island as our first order of business.

Driving around New Jersey is horrendous. Alright, I admit I am a small city boy. The drivers in around this area is so aggressive, if you ask me. Rather than driving around looking for a nice place to eat, we decided to just drop by the nearest fast food joint for our breakfast.

Coffee was so essential these days to our daily diet. I can’t seem to think of any day when we did not have a cup of coffee in the morning. BK’s coffee was quite OK.

I got a BK sandwich.

Suanne got a BK croissant.

t Suanne and I had to live up to being food bloggers but we unashamedly admit that we love the BK breakfast.

We also love the price … less than $10 bucks … and no need to leave tips too. Anyway, this is not the point of this post. This is our trip to Ellis Island.

One thing about visiting Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. This is a really popular tourist attraction. If this is not the #1 tourist attraction in the whole of the United States, this one is certainly on the top three. One major tip … you should never ever just decide then and there to visit this place. We booked our cruise to these islands three weeks on the web before the trip … and even then the choice times were solidly booked.

You can visit both Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty either from New York City or from New Jersey. Since we drove from Philadelphia, we took the cruise from New Jersey’s Liberty State Park. Between NYC’s Battery Park and NJ’s Liberty State Park, going from NJ is certainly less crowded.

The departure point is from an old disused train terminal. (more…)