Step One: Go to
Google Step Two: Click on Maps (you might need to search for maps first).
Step Three: Click on 'Get Directions'.
Step Four: From New York
Step Five: To Paris
And read line #23.
If you laugh at this, repost it.
I snorted so hard.
It's a bit more sane with Auckland to Dunedin where it suggests to take a ferry.
Now excuse me while I go and do my father's accounting stuff.