New York City: One World Observatory and for the love of tall buildings

Nothing in New York is cheap, but price per floor, the One World Observatory is the best bang for your skyscraper buck.

The iconic Brooklyn Bridge. More people live in Brooklyn than Chicago, and that's not even counting the other 4 boroughs.

Empire State Building: $77 for the 102nd floor

One World Trade Center: $43 for the 102nd floor

One Vanderbilt: $60 for the 93rd floor

Top of the Rock: $40 for the 70th floor

View south: Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and Staten Island.

The boys were impressed that it is the tallest building in the Western hemisphere and 7th in the world. It measures 1,776 feet tall (not a coincidence).

A very exclusive outdoor terrace, looked like it was at about the 80th floor.

Little Island is a park built on a pier!

I loved seeing the miniature world of NYC buildings from above.

Two window washers outside the 100th floor!

Directly below One World Trade Center, reflecting pools mark the footprints of the former Twin Towers.

Seventeen years in the PNW and I am still a reluctant hiker, never a camper. But give me city blocks and I will walk and walk and walk. My preferred scenery is tall buildings and crowds, ahead of mountain ranges and evergreen forests. My family mocks me because I find traffic "comforting," but only because it means I am near my favorite things.

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