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Half Day in Manhattan, Time to Fly
Mar. 25th, 2025 09:56 pmNYC Quickie Travelog #6
EWR Airport - Tue, 25 Mar 2025, 2:30pm
We wrapped up our training/feedback workshop today with a half day that ended at lunch. Most of my colleagues stuck around the office for boxed lunches that were brough in. I jetted for the airport so I could hop on a client call at 1:30 from a quiet spot in the terminal and then board a 3:30pm flight home. It seemed like most of my colleagues had much later flights and thus plenty of time to kill.
While riding in a car through the Holland Tunnel into New Jersey and then over one of the skyways over the Meadowlands I had a bunch of Sopranos moments. As in, I kept trying to figure out if this tunnel embankment, or that "Welcome to NJ" sign, or this bridge was part of the TV show's opening sequence. It would've been perfect if we'd driven through downtown Newark and passed Satriali's Pork!
Well, I'm at the airport now, I'm finished with that customer call, and I've had some lunch, too. I've got to say, EWR is a nice airport now post-renovation. Much like the surprising new beauty of LGA I saw the other night, EWR now has wide, airy concourses and nice restaurant choices. Back in the late 00s when I was traveling through this airport a lot it was a dump from the 1970s.
EWR Airport - Tue, 25 Mar 2025, 2:30pm
We wrapped up our training/feedback workshop today with a half day that ended at lunch. Most of my colleagues stuck around the office for boxed lunches that were brough in. I jetted for the airport so I could hop on a client call at 1:30 from a quiet spot in the terminal and then board a 3:30pm flight home. It seemed like most of my colleagues had much later flights and thus plenty of time to kill.
While riding in a car through the Holland Tunnel into New Jersey and then over one of the skyways over the Meadowlands I had a bunch of Sopranos moments. As in, I kept trying to figure out if this tunnel embankment, or that "Welcome to NJ" sign, or this bridge was part of the TV show's opening sequence. It would've been perfect if we'd driven through downtown Newark and passed Satriali's Pork!
Well, I'm at the airport now, I'm finished with that customer call, and I've had some lunch, too. I've got to say, EWR is a nice airport now post-renovation. Much like the surprising new beauty of LGA I saw the other night, EWR now has wide, airy concourses and nice restaurant choices. Back in the late 00s when I was traveling through this airport a lot it was a dump from the 1970s.
