Jetlag.

So my first trip out of the EU where will it be ?
New York it was! 
I was set for some high flying adventures thanks to a tip off from Lucy about January sales on flights to the US
The usual extremely late booking and inevitable mishaps made the start of this trip slightly more fraught than it should have been though!
Unfortunately after 24 hours of jet lag and no adventures i went down with a chest infection and the scene was set for the next 8 days! Most night time activities were out of the window but with help from Moe we sampled some of the delights that the big apple had to offer...

Just a pointer for aspiring roof toppers.. don't wear a nice thick shirt and padded suit to walk up 50 flights of stairs, even in January it gets a little warm! The end scene from the film enchanted (yes i know, i was tricked into watching it honest) was set on this rooftop and the rooftop is the only good thing about the entire film. The Woolworth building has a beautifully placed abandoned viewing deck for those (explorers/cubical workers on fag breaks who manage to get lost) that want to sample the evening views!

Another day another bridge-less night, after getting up late and donning the suit once more we made our way to the most famous square in New York for a hotel stay, i say stay i mean more sit on top of! With more info from our main man, we found what we were looking for, a squeeze and there we were there...

After this my chest infection knocked me for 6 and i took a nice rest day (and bossed Moe's new book ) at the flat while Lucy went to visit friends. The next day was our main objective of the whole trip, to stand on the eagles of the Chrysler building. Moe set us up, all we had to do was navigate the building once past the barriers, walk up 60 storeys, climb out of a window and hope it all works out well! 

With the main event over, and still nowhere near well enough to climb bridges we pottered about visiting people, exploring subway and the delights of bourbon with Steve Duncan, general mischief and great hospitality from Logan Hicks, meeting more people from Australia, doing rooftops and eating burritos with Cat, yet more tunnels with Lucy, and to top it off a great leaving meal with all the guys we had stayed with and met over the past few days (minus Moe aka prince.)

It was a belting trip, it was a shame to not have managed to do more with our time, but that's all part of the game right? With thanks to Steve D, Logan hicks & Kristen & Sailor, Cat, Pearl, Max power and most of all the big daddy for letting us crash at his, making us feel welcome and all the info and help that he gave us... Mr Moses gates!

Ps. Sorry for the (awful) water marks but if this is true id rather be safe than sorry ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/29/err_act_landgrab/