Before you plan anything, check to see if there is an app that will make your planning easier.

Senior Tip - There is most likely an app for everything you wish to do when you travel.

My wife and I  were in New York for some work  and to attend the US Open. We took some time to see the ground zero memorial on September 11. The photo of the memorial light was taken from an apartment in Brooklyn.

The Ground Zero memorial was somber. I swear that when I visited the bottom floor of the memorial, where some of the people are still interred in the rubbish behind the memorial walls, I could smell smoke.  Visitors like me shuffled around in respectful silence at the recovered debris and pictures of the tragedy on display.  I was in the Office of a friend of mine, Robert Lastelic, when it happened. Like the Kennedy assassination, people remember where they were when the planes hit the towers.

There is an app for everything when you travel, the bus schedule, ferry boat tours, the subway schedule, food, shows to see and even the 9/11 memorial.