We’ve listened to the Bowery Boys podcast for several years; they mostly talk about New York City history and architecture. Every year, they do a special Halloween show with New York ghost stories – this year, the show was Ghost Stories of the Hudson River, which seemed like a great thing to listen to before we take our Hudson River cruise.

The show dropped yesterday, and we were able to listen to a bit more than half of it on our drive to SFO; we finished it after getting to our hotel (the Fairfield Inn at JFK – perfectly acceptable for an evening).

We probably won’t be able to visit any of the sites they mentioned, but we will sail past Bannerman Castle tomorrow night.

Our Hudson River cruise is imminent, so we packed today. We’ll be on a small ship with no laundry facilities and it’s not clear whether there will be any opportunity to have laundry done on shore, so we’re packing defensively and will have to check a bag.

I didn’t think I’d need much zoom for photos on this trip, so I wanted to leave my big camera behind. But when I picked up the Lumix ZS100, it felt very awkward – so I’m carrying the big camera after all.

Not a very exciting day, I admit, but a little calm was welcome!