New York

Manhattan Bridge - NYC

New York is one of the most iconic cities I've ever been to. We were there in 2007 to celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary and I can easily say it was love at first sight. What a place to end this amazing trip.

View of Manhattan

New York has the most recognisable skyline in the world. Striking buildings, the best venues and the most amazing park in the middle of the city.

View from Empire State Building 

Radio City

Central Park

It's a city I could easily live in. After London only New York could make me happy!

Downtown - NYC

I can't wait to walk the street of New York again and take in all it has to offer.

Brooklyn Bridge

Little Italy

Visit the places we liked the most and the ones we didn't have time to go when we were there.

Statue of Liberty

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Empire State Building

We planned this road trip to take 3 months and visit 17 states. I wish we could go to 3 more as initially we thought we would - Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine. But we might have to visit these states another time. I don't want to rush it and would love to be able to stay longer at places we really like. To learn as much as possible about the places, culture, people, food, music and everything that makes the USA such an incredible and diverse country.

NYC

View of Manhattan from Ellis Island

I would love to say "we are ready!", but there's so much to do still that now that we are about 5 months to go we need to start to do some serious planning. New Year's resolutions for sure!

*All photos © Lilian Sugarhood

Note to self:

Music: Bitter End www.bitterend.com, Cafe Wha? www.cafewha.com 

Road Trip essentials: www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/sep/21/top-10-road-trip-essentials-truckers-guide