It would be cool to see all right. In August 2001 I took my niece up on her offer to visit her in New York City, where she had been working for two years. About four years prior, I had shown her and a friend some of the spots in San Francisco - they had ridden down from Washington state on the Green Tortoise, sort of a hippy dippy version of Greyhound.

On the first day we took the subway from her place in Brooklyn, were walking around the City. I saw one building, I thought holy crap, as tall as that thing looks, the World Trade Center must look gigantic. I asked her what the building was, she looked at me incredulously and said “that’s the World Trade Center.” We were in one of the many canyon zones, only one of them was visible at the moment.

She frequently had to work during the four days I was there, on the days by myself I would ride the subway into the stop under the Trade Center to start my day. There were some nice restaurants in the basement, sometimes they had a band playing out in the main yard. I must’ve looked like a tourist from Kansas, looking up the buildings with a golly gee expression. I can only imagine the Burj Khalif would be sort of mind blowing.

We went up to Windows on the World on my last night there. Twenty days later it was in rubble.

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