May 7, 2019 - Elisa's Back to Walking in the Spring Air and Tanya leaves NYC and goes on a SURPRISE trip!!

Elisa's Daily Scoop 
Covering Long Island & NYC Boroughs 
CURRENTLY IN:  LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK
​NEXT TRIP: TBD 

Tanya's Daily Scoop 
Covering the West Coast & the World
CURRENTLY IN: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK
NEXT TRIP DEPARTING IN: TODAY - IT'S A SURPRISE!

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Back to walking in the Spring Air

Hey there!

Another delightful day here on Long Island! What I'm really excited about is that I'm back to walking! Yup, that's right, your's truly is back outdoors and one with nature.

Yesterday, you may remember, I mentioned that I walked 3.5 miles at the time of my Scoop writing.  But, after Gianna got home from school, we took a mom and daughter walk and I racked up another mile, bringing my total mileage to 4.5.

Then this morning, I walked 4.2 miles (10,055 steps) and feel fantastic.  The weather was not as sunny and lovely as yesterday, however, it was a bit cooler, which made it more comfortable for walking. 

I cannot tell you how amazing I feel with my daily juices, and, now with my outdoor walking!

Did I tell you that I left a pair of my sneakers at the nail salon last week, after getting my pedicure??  LOL - well, I finally got around to picking them up today.

Thank goodness I have two pair! 

One of the beautiful weeping cherry trees in Garden City, Long Island (c) travelincousins.com

So what do you think about Tanya's SURPRISE trip to Miami?? Pretty darn cool!  

I'm just disappointed that me and my cuz didn't get a chance to get together.  Between her quick in and out of New York City and my crazy schedule with the kids and caring for my Dad, we just couldn't do it (insert sad face). 

And now that I had to cancel my trip to Sicily (insert DISAPPOINTED, SAD AND TERRIBLY UPSET face), I'm not sure just when we'll see each other.  But, I'm sure we'll figure it out!!
Safe Travels Cuz!

I have a half-day visit to the Bronx scheduled this Thursday.  I'm figuring out where I will be going and I'll keep you posted!

My hope is that I can pay a visit to Bronx Community College to The Hall of Fame for Great Americans, which is an outdoor sculpture gallery, located on the grounds of Bronx Community College in the Bronx, New York City.

North wing of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans showing Alexander Graham Bell and Eli Whitney (photo credit: wikipedia.org)

This great destination is a designated NYC Landmark as well as on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Trying to firm up my schedule today.  Of course, no visit The Bronx will be complete without a yummy meal. I'll keep you posted!

Lastly, for some reason my full Scoop was cut off in the emailing yesterday, so I'm attaching a link here:

May 6, 2019 - Experiencing the True Switzerland AND a first hand review of the FIVE BORO BIKE TOUR in NYC

Well, I hope you enjoyed Tanya's wrap up of her NYC day yesterday!  

I'll see ya'll tomorrow!
-Travelin' Elisa
xoxo

Leaving NYC and going on a surprise trip!!

GOOD DAY my lovelies!

Holy Smokes Folks - it's me and I'm on here 2 days in a row. That's a record for the last few weeks of my terribly poor blog behavior and having such a busy life.

But I am certainly not one to go around thinking or expressing a "woe is me" attitude.
I'm more of the type to jump on the ride of life and enjoy the roller coaster! lol

Soooo where in the world is Travelin' Tanya or Tanya San Diego (as I've recently heard).

GREETINGS from NYC.
Yup still in the BIG APPLE, but leaving today for that surprise trip that I've been mentioning. (See below to find out where I'm off to next - and it's not Seattle, I'm still heading there in 3 days)

Life is truly a whirlwind and I do get asked all the time "how do you do it?"  The simple answer is - I just do.

Heading to JFK soon. My bags are all packed and I'm pretty much ready to go on my next adventure...
Which if all goes well, you'll hear all about tomorrow.

But for now let's chat about yesterday...
For starters, I had soooooo much to do. It was crazy how much I was able to take care of on my laptop and phone from my hotel room. Technology is amazing! But nonetheless took up most of my morning.

Our breakfast plans were simple and we headed over to City Acres to pick up some delicious smoothies from Juice Brothers. Before heading over there, I had decided that I would cancel our lunch plans and that we would opt to have a sorta picnic instead; So while at City Acres we had also picked up some noms from Beyond Sushi and Vanessa's Dumplings.

Picnic lunch of sushi and dumplings (c)travelincousins.com

Strolling in NYC (c)travelincousins.com

Our picnic destination was the public space and gardens at the newly opened Hudson Yards and the plan was to climb to the top of the Vessel. 

The Vessel at Hudson Yards (c)travelincousins.com

We got our first glimpse at this sculpture on Sunday night and that is when this said plan had been thought up.

The sculpture's public access had been closed for the night and there was no mention of the tickets that are required - which totally makes sense...

The only issue was that it wasn't until after munching away at lunch did we find out about the (free) tickets and by then the first available wasn't until after 6pm - which we didn't have time for.

Selfie in front of the Vessel (c)travelincousins.com

So instead, we strolled around, found a post office for Dave and then made our way to Yankees Stadium!

The sights and sounds of NYC (c)travelincousins.com

Hope sculpture (c)travelincousins.com

We packed into the subway like a bunch of sardines and were on our way. 

Arriving at Yankees stadium in the nick of time for the Yankees/Mariners game. And what an exciting game it was! 

Traffic in front of the stadium (c)travelincousins.com

Yankees stadium (c)travelincousins.com

Ready for a good game! (c)travelincousins.com

Happy to see my boys (c)travelincousins.com

Score board (c)travelincousins.com

Dave and I (c)travelincousins.com

Home run after home run and play after play. This was not a boring game! And of course I was a happy camper about the 7-3 turn out since my boys won the first place Seattle Mariners.

​And now what you've been waiting for...

We are heading to Miami!

It's an early birthday surprise celebration for Dave AKA Birdwald Ponypants. And tonight we will be going to the Greta Van Fleet concert. Woo to the Hoo its gonna be a good time!

So on that note, I've gotta be heading out to catch my flight.

Toodles poodles,
-Travelin' Tanya