End of the trip collage

Here's a slideshow of photos from the weekend trip to the east coast for my sister's wedding. If you hit the 'i" icon on the first photo, it will show the captions. Some random thoughts:

Fifteen hours is not a lot of time to travel 3,000 miles - it's positively miraculous. Nonetheless, fifteen hours is a long time, and maybe we shouldn't think we can travel 3,000 miles and back in a weekend.

JFK Airport - or at least Terminal 6 - is a pretty darn drab facility.

NYC is a top-tier world city, but in the end it's just another place filled with people doing the same stuff we do all over.

Trains run on time. Planes, not so much.

We didn't have a chance to have any pizza in the City, but the calzone we had for lunch on Saturday in Connecticut - even the plain cheese one - was so much better than anything I have had locally. I don't know exactly what it is, but I imagine it might be a simple as the ingredients - maybe they can get brands on the east coast that we may not have access to out here. In any case, it was great.

On the east coast, the highway exits are numbered sequentially and do not match the milepost markers. So, exit 52 might be a mile from exit 51, but it might be nine miles. I find that pretty inefficient.

Any exit numbering difficulties were completely smoothed out by sister Lin's GPS directional system, nicknamed "Jack." It had a little, easy to read road display and guided us from place to place almost unerringly, giving countdowns to the next turn and a running ETA as well verbal instructions. It was really amazing.

The wedding was fantastic - it had everything a wedding should have - sentiment, theater, community, music, good food, dancing, and fun - and almost none of the troublesome stuff. definitely top-drawer, and I am so glad I made the trip. Congratulation, NJ and Joe!

Otis had a great time, too, and my brother-in-law Geney was happy to find someone new to tell all his stories to.

Even though both Dingo and we had travel lateness hassles on the way back, we all got in on time late Sunday night, hooked up at the airport, and were home before midnight.

Class today went fine, but I didn't get a whole lot of grading done today - walks in the sun, yes; grading, no. It will be a busy week, with a heaping hunk of JustJon and LadyK dropped into the middle! Yay!

Best. Wedding. Evar.

NJ and Joe

The wedding of the year is over, although we are still on the trip. I'm posting from Gate 21 in the temporary JetBlue terminal at JFK. (It's just a bunch of portables stacked together, but they have wi-fi and cell phone charging stations and snack shops and even a bar.) We had a wet but overall uneventful trip from Westerchester down to Grand Central and out to the airport, which is a wild pile of people and sounds and light. Dingo is flying from a different airport and has a layover, so we'll hook up with her in SeaTac and drive home together.

I will have a full post when I can catch my breath, but suffice to say for now that everything was grand - the visiting, the ceremony, the food, the reception, the dancing, the whole magilla. It has been a great trip from beginning to end.

Otis practicing her 'tude