Digesting New York, Part 1 (intro)

I just returned from a ten-day visit to New York City. I had an exhausting, stimulating, wonderful time. Usually, when I go on a trip, I keep a special "trip journal" (as opposed to any more-or-less regular journal I may have going at the time.) I sort of kept one on this trip too, but the entries are very brief because by the time I got around to writing them - generally the wee small hours of the morning - I was almost too tired to hold the pen up. I thought it would be a good idea to expand on them while the memories are still more or less fresh, and possibly even to share them with the very few people who might be interested . . . we'll see about that.