While waiting to leave Buffalo to go to our favorite campsite -- Camp Monaco -- we took a side trip in the car to visit friends in Easton, PA. Barb and Gary took us to see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, places we have not seen before. Although we did not have time to go into the city, we did have a wonderful day. We started out from an old railroad station on the New Jersey shoreline, where trains brought the commuters in to catch a ferry into the City. You could just imagine all the commuters arriving back in that day. Now it is part of the Statue of Liberty park and you go there to get tickets to ride the ferry to the Statue and Ellis Island. Once at Ellis Island you could search your ancestry via their computers. We then caught the ferry to the Statue of Liberty. What a spectacular sight! You can imagine how the immigrants felt sailing into the harbor. You can no longer go up into the Statue. This was stopped after 9/11 due to fire codes and safety reasons. You can still go into the base of the statue where they have plexigas windows cut out so you can look up inside and see the construction of the statue. Later we went to Hoboken, NJ for a great dinner and a fantastic view, both day and night, of the City.