10/5/06 NYC, traveling still...stayed the night at Sonia's parents' place near Lancaster, which is incredible with great hosts, and slept like a rock. A very tired rock. We'll see them again on Sunday. After breakfast, we reassembled the bikes, said goodbye to a breakfast-eating and extremely content Sophie, and loaded up for NYC. Eric, Sonia's brother-in-law, was nice enough to brave the traffic and get us to the Park Central Hotel, two blocks from Central Park. We did some walking around there and took a subway ride down to ground zero-- I hadn't seen the WTC site ever, before or after there were buildings there.

Rebuilding has begun, mostly to the subway system. It is a powerful scene, just a large somber place amisdst the bustle of Manhattan.