A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to New York, United States by TravelPod blogger Heatheravan titled "New York!! New York!!" Heatheravan's travel blog entry: ""New York, New York - king of the hill, top of the heap" as the Frank Sinatra song goes. Wash our mouths out with soap but we country bumpkins LOVED New York! There is just so much to do, see and experience and contrary to our belief, we found New Yorkers to be very friendly, helpful and obliging. However, one of the ultimate nightmares of travelling happened on the way to NY - our luggage went missing! We left Lima, Peru on an early flight that had been changed (since we booked) from a direct to New York flight to one that was going via Miami. There was going to be just enough time allowed to clear customs and immigration before making the connecting flight to New York. As we got close to Miami a lightening storm hit and whilst the plane landed OK we were stranded on the tarmac for over 2 hours as the ground staff would not work in lightening. When we finally got off the plane we found our connecting NY flight had also been delayed so we rushed through the airport formalities and literally ran to the plane. We made it but unfortunately our luggage didn't! Then as the plane began to move onto the runway it had mechanical problems (American Airlines again!) and we stayed on the tarmac for another 1 and 1/2 hours before we took off. We were beginning to think we were going to have another night in ...
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