This Month in Travel History - September 2009

Four hundred years ago this month, Henry Hudson and his crew headed up what was later named the Hudson River, anchoring along the northern tip of Manhattan for a day. Aft er journeying north past Albany, Hudson decided the river was too shallow to be the Northwest Passage that he had been hired to find, and turned his ship around. On Oct. 4, the Half Moon emerged from the mouth of the river and returned to Europe.