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I got pictures to prove the New York City tour. I put the link in one of the other posts but here it is again.
http://www.skincarepro.com/laserbusny/ny_pics.htm
A couple pictures are not from NYC. One if on the water in a parking lot in Cape Cod and the one of me hanging out the drivers side window is in Camden Maine in the fog. All the others are NYC. The one of the gal and guy in the chairs on the sidewalk are two people that worked for me at the time and that picture is where I camped in Rockafeller Center. If you look closely you can see the flag poles in backgroud characteriztic of the center courtyard at Rockafeller Center. I can't belive my mirrors never got ripped off by another bus or truck honestly. It wasn't until we almost were ready to leave that I got the bright idea to start putting the mirrors in when I parked by loosening them with a socket. In many cases, I'd look out the window and see other trucks and buses coming uncomfortably close but it was never enough to make me throw in the towel. All I can tell you is that I never had one bad thing happen. Nobody ever threw a bottle at the bus, nobody ever peed on my tires or put a bannana in the tail pipe. I'll see if I got some more photos to post. I got some great pictures of me pretending to be homeless in a sleeping bag on the sidewalk.
Oh, one time while driving around there, my mirror kissed a passenger bus mirror because it was so tight. We were driving at Hwy speed on the approach to the Lincoln Tunnell on the NJ side. No damage. The lanes are so freaking tight there there was nowhere to go. That was the only thing that happened besides my $1,500 or so contribution to NYC from my parking tickets. If you consider what an apartment cost to rent or a hotel ($300-$400 a night) then $1,500 ain't bad considering I was roving about in the jungle for 9 months. I'll go back and do it again.