Oh halfway there, oh, oh. It’s our United song Liberty on a Prayer.
Take my hand and I’ll make it I swear with United Airlines… to New Jersey‘s, and America’s most defining monument, the Statue of Liberty.
It doesn’t, in truth, take a New Joisian long before they tell you that Lady Liberty is one of them.
Greetings from Bruce
And just one of a rich hall of fame which also includes…
Whitney Houston, Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi and Frankie Valli, to name but a few.
Because we all know that New Jersey has a rich seam of some of the icons of American music.
But for those, even among the knowledgeable Irish Travel Media and Trade at the Shelbourne in Dublin who didn’t.
Then the New Joisians were there to fill in the gaps.
Of a conversation that had started at the American Travel Fair in San Antonio, Texas about New Joisey’s musical legacy.
New Jersey’s legacy
The New Joisians, headliners for us travel delegates in Dublin last week, market their state along a Bruce Springsteen theme.
The cover of Greetings from Asbury Park.
Music is a great place to start in New Jersey, or anywhere for that matter, as it acts as a soundtrack for any holiday memory.
And so when left to my own devices in New York I put my big toe in the water.
Or the next best thing, the Beast speedboat tour around Hudson Bay on a whistlestop tour of New York.
All of which you’ll hear on the spool in the eastern seaboard’s playground, Atlantic City.
Where they crank up the music with the best Bruce and Bon Jovi.
United we stand
Many of us take our first steps onto American soil in New Jersey, through Newark Airport.
And so since we’re halfway there shouldn’t we head further into NJ.
And avail of the 130 miles of beaches and a very special boardwalk in Atlantic City.
And get our party vibe on because we reckon that Bon Jovi’s famous couple Tommy and Gina did manage to run away.
And that’s where we are with the United song Liberty on a Prayer.
Newark, of course, you can get to with your fave airline, United, which has been flying us to NJ for 25 years.
And with double daily flights from Edinburgh with a sample from October from €682 (£585) round trip.
