Toast & Tracy - Circle Line Manhattan Cruise

August 3rd, 2006

The Empire State Building stands in the haze behind the piers. To the right, the World's Largest Mosquito Net installation. (Actually, I didn't catch what the tour guide said it was. My guess is it's to keep seagulls from shitting on people's yachts or something.)

The Battery. Yeah, it still looks wrong.

That's definitely better.

Ellis Island. I hear they're planning to build a giant fence around it just in case any more damned immigrants show up...

Some French chick.

That ghostly shape you see in the distance is the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. Used to have the longest center span of any bridge in the world. Up-close-and-personal, it's quite gigantic.

(Warning: I'm a bridge fanatic.)

The mouth of the East River, with the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. The former, a thing of transcendent beauty, was designed by fellow RPI alum John Roebling. The latter, a rusting blue EveryBridge of sorts, was designed by an MIT grad. I used to find this highly amusing. You know, back before my alma mater was Dead to Me.

The Financial District.

(I'm only showing this to break up the bridge pictures.)

Tracy, striking a Randian heroine pose, with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background.

The King of All Bridges. Seriously, this creature stirs my heart. Closest thing to a church I've got on this Earth. Which made it such a wonderfully appropriate place to propose to Tracy.

The Manhattan Bridge.

If Salieri had been an engineer...

As we motored up the river, Tracy informed me that she finds broken-down, abandoned warehouses kinda cool and mysterious.

Um, OK...

The Williamsburg Bridge. Funky looking towers. I like it.

Gratuitous Tracy pic.

Me, chillin' in style as always, yo.

Jersey City. Pretty cool looking buildings. Not bad, Jersey, not bad.

My wife is hot.