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About a year or two ago, a good friend of mine acquired his Private Pilot's License. Shortly after that, he invited me to go on a very exciting little tour.

We took off from his home airport of Caldwell, NJ (CDW). From there, we crossed the hudson over the Tapanzee Bridge, and went to Bridgeport, Conn.

We stopped briefly there, made a quick phone call, and then returned the air. Once over the Hudson River, we turned south. We travelled south past New York City, circled the Statue of Liberty, and turned back to the north.

Once past the George Washington Bridge, we turned west for the return to Caldwell.

These are some of the highlights of the trip.

One highlight that cannot show here is something that took a few months. But this trip triggered something that had been inside me ever since I was a kid. It took a few months for it to be clear to me that it wasn't going away.

At that point, I made the appropriate response: I started taking lessons towards my own Private Pilot's License.

	Approaching the Tapanzee Bridge, over the Hudson River.		This looks like a good place from which to make a phone call.		I've never seen a dam from this angle. Before now.
					A first view of NYC
			New Jersey Pallisades
A poor view of Fort Washington Heights.		Too close!		This is the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel on the New Jersey side.
Holding yard for trains outside of Penn Station?			Hoboken Rail/Path Station		World Trade
	Statue of Liberty	Elis Island in the background
	A better view of the Penn Station yard		This is the USS Intrepid Museum	None of these are similar to the planes I fly. Oh well.
			Central Park	North end of Central Park	New York side of the George Washington Bridge
Some structure at the northern tip of Fort Washington Heights		The Willowbrook Mall.	Approaching runway 22 back at Caldwell