New York! Sailed into the great harbor on a magnificent clear spring morning. I got up early to see the sunrise, arrived on the top deck just as we reached pilot station. (A female pilot, a thing I haven’t seen before.) The Verrazzano Bridge was twinkling several miles ahead of us, the sky just reddening over Long Island. At 5:30 the sun came up–visible right from the horizon, the sky exceptionally clear (but no green flash–I have a lifelong ambition to see the green flash, but never have). We sailed in under the bridge, the whole city waking up around us. Past Lady Liberty & Ellis Island, me of course thinking about the current immigration ruckus. Up the Hudson River to the cruise terminal at West 50th.

It’s very nice to go travelin’
To London, Paris or Rome–
It’s very nice to go travelin’
But it’s oh so nice to come home.