The real hero of my drive to the airport would be my wonderful girlfriend who drove me to the airport and made sure I was right to security, and that was driving right into the hell of Toronto traffic. I would like to start off by thanking the Canadian Boarder Services, with their excellent job searching every single film canister I had brought with me, I feel so much safer. But they were very polite with me and the guy who had me empty my pockets and bags was very nice and very friendly, and most interested in the camera gear. The Porter lounge was excellent. Drinks of every sort, not to mention munchies, and even wifi (not that it mattered my netbook was packed away already checked through) but they had some iMacs setup for anyone to use, so I killed some time by surfing the Google reader.
The flight itself was fun, and really in the long run didn’t seem that long either, the scenery was great but it made me realize how much Google Maps has ruined me, shame I can’t have a GPS and over lay on my glasses so I could figure out where I was. I think I found the QEW and maybe the 406. Most the flight took place over land, and with a window seat I caught some wonderful shots of clouds and the landscape below. Not really that rough of weather just a tiny bit of turbulence just before we started descending into Newark (yeah, I got to see the NYC skyline…I tried to get a photo, but the haze was interfering. Also for some weird reason my teeth hurt, the whole flight, maybe it was because right outside my window was the propeller. I don’t know. It was just, odd.
Security and Homeland Security at Newark wasn’t as friendly as Canadian, the rather bored looking agent wasn’t too talkative, but thankfully I wasn’t questioned too closely, nor was I searched (that’s for next week, oh joys) again. Then it was a matter of finding my way through the airport to the airtrain then I found the wonderful courtesy shuttle right to the hotel. The room and hotel restaurant are both excellent. The hotel wifi, however leaves much to be desired.
All in all not a bad experience, what tomorrow holds, I know not. That’s it for now, more tomorrow!
