Flying Home from NYC
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canyonwalkerNYC Quickie Travelog #7
Back home - Tue, 25 Mar 2025, 9:30pm
I'm back home from my quickie business trip to New York City. I say "quickie" because I traveled out there for a day and a half of work. The whole trip, at 3 days and 2 nights, wasn't exactly quick. It's not like overnights or even out-and-back-same-day trips to Southern California or Phoenix. But it's fast for coast-to-coast travel.
Speaking of fast travel, I had a nonstop flight home EWR-SFO today. Why take a nonstop today after I took a connecting flight Sunday and carefully explained the tradeoffs that favored the connecting flight? It's because the tradeoffs are so particular to the circumstances that they have to be evaluated every trip, including each direction of a round trip.
The difference between outbound and homebound this week came down to seat selection. Flights on Sunday had only middle seats left when I was booking last Monday. Thus I picked Southwest with its open-seating policy, though that also meant no nonstop to NYC. For my flight today the seat maps were wide open when I booked last week, so I gladly booked a nonstop with United. Sunday's flights went out 100% full; my homebound flight today had at least 1/3 the seats in coach unoccupied.
I watched a few movies on today's flight: Joker (2019) starring Joaquin Phoenix and Kraven the Hunter. Joker was... sick and sad. I'm not sure where the filmmakers were trying to go with this gritty tragedy about a mentally ill person. Is/Was this supposed to set up another Batman reboot? I'll write more about it separately.
We landed in SFO about 30 minutes ahead of schedule. That was nice because it meant I could have dinner at a resaonable-ish time. I hailed a ride from SFO directly to a restaurant where I met Hawk at about 7:30. By the time I walked into the restaurant, though, I realized two things. One, my legs were really stiff from hours of sitting. Two, I was completely frazzled. Like, I could barely focus mentally or visually. Thankfully dinner with my spouse is a low threat environment. 😅
Now I'm back home-home and I... am still frazzled. I've only had the energy to half unpack my suitcase. And it's a small suitcase! Usually "unpack my suitcase" is one of the Zen things I do to end a trip. There's not enough energy for that tonight, though. I don't have energy for a shower, either— another one of the Zen things I do to mark that travel is complete. At this point I'm just going to hit bed early— as if 12:30am effective time is early— and deal with the rest tomorrow morning.
Back home - Tue, 25 Mar 2025, 9:30pm
I'm back home from my quickie business trip to New York City. I say "quickie" because I traveled out there for a day and a half of work. The whole trip, at 3 days and 2 nights, wasn't exactly quick. It's not like overnights or even out-and-back-same-day trips to Southern California or Phoenix. But it's fast for coast-to-coast travel.
Speaking of fast travel, I had a nonstop flight home EWR-SFO today. Why take a nonstop today after I took a connecting flight Sunday and carefully explained the tradeoffs that favored the connecting flight? It's because the tradeoffs are so particular to the circumstances that they have to be evaluated every trip, including each direction of a round trip.
The difference between outbound and homebound this week came down to seat selection. Flights on Sunday had only middle seats left when I was booking last Monday. Thus I picked Southwest with its open-seating policy, though that also meant no nonstop to NYC. For my flight today the seat maps were wide open when I booked last week, so I gladly booked a nonstop with United. Sunday's flights went out 100% full; my homebound flight today had at least 1/3 the seats in coach unoccupied.
I watched a few movies on today's flight: Joker (2019) starring Joaquin Phoenix and Kraven the Hunter. Joker was... sick and sad. I'm not sure where the filmmakers were trying to go with this gritty tragedy about a mentally ill person. Is/Was this supposed to set up another Batman reboot? I'll write more about it separately.
We landed in SFO about 30 minutes ahead of schedule. That was nice because it meant I could have dinner at a resaonable-ish time. I hailed a ride from SFO directly to a restaurant where I met Hawk at about 7:30. By the time I walked into the restaurant, though, I realized two things. One, my legs were really stiff from hours of sitting. Two, I was completely frazzled. Like, I could barely focus mentally or visually. Thankfully dinner with my spouse is a low threat environment. 😅
Now I'm back home-home and I... am still frazzled. I've only had the energy to half unpack my suitcase. And it's a small suitcase! Usually "unpack my suitcase" is one of the Zen things I do to end a trip. There's not enough energy for that tonight, though. I don't have energy for a shower, either— another one of the Zen things I do to mark that travel is complete. At this point I'm just going to hit bed early— as if 12:30am effective time is early— and deal with the rest tomorrow morning.
