New York City
We began our cruise up the coast and the St. Lawrence River at New York City. It was my first visit there in many years and I was really surprised at how nice it is now. We walked around town and felt perfectly safe all the time.
Read MoreTimes square on Saturday evening. The billboard signs on the building rent for $10,000,000 a year. That's about 70,000,000 a year from the signs. Good thing because there is only one renter in the entire building--the city of NY rents space for the police substation on the first floor. Notice the crystal ball at the top that falls at midnight each New Year's Eve.