Jamie Thingelstad

Travel

Detailed travel logs and trip journals live here. Expect day‑by‑day itineraries (e.g., our Switzerland & Italy trip) with weather notes, meals and family anecdotes, plus posts on museum visits, road‑trips and cruises.

What to do when you want to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge but it’s raining? Go anyway. We were really wet by the time we got to the other side. Shoes squishing with water wet. Was it worth it? Probably. ☔️

Two kids in rain jackets stand on a wet bridge walkway above a Welcome to Brooklyn marking, sharing an orange umbrella. Four people in rain jackets walking across the Brooklyn Bridge on a rainy day, one holding a large orange Hyatt Centric umbrella. Wet wooden pedestrian walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge on a rainy day, with people holding umbrellas walking toward the Manhattan skyline. Four people in rain jackets pose for a selfie on the Brooklyn Bridge walkway on a rainy day with the Manhattan skyline behind them. Pedestrians with orange and red umbrellas walk the wet wooden promenade of the Brooklyn Bridge on a rainy gray day. Pedestrians with umbrellas and rain jackets walk the wet wooden promenade of the Brooklyn Bridge toward its granite tower

We took the F Train to Brooklyn and had an awesome brunch with Greg and his family. Greg and I met as freshman roommates at the University of Minnesota and became fast friends. It was the first time we were able to get our entire families together, and first I had seen him since 2018.

Four friends smiling together inside a warmly lit brick-walled restaurant bar, arms around each other.

Seeing Bono’s “Surrender” at the Beacon Theater tonight was one of the most engaging performances I’ve ever seen. Two hours with Bono sharing stories of U2, his youth, and mixed with powerful and inimate performances of U2 songs. Incredible and magical. ✨

Family of four posing for a rainy night selfie outside the Beacon Theatre marquee advertising Bono Surrender sold out tonight

It is weird to me that I’ve been to Manhattan hundreds of times over the years, but I’ve never really gone into Central Park at all. We decided to walk from our hotel up and through Central Park to the Beacon Theatre to see Bono and it was so cool to explore a bit of the park.

Sheep Meadow in Central Park, a vast green lawn with scattered visitors and the Midtown Manhattan skyline visible behind the trees.