Travel day
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 2:45 am
From Pisa to JFK today - I will be out of touch for most of the day.
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 8:08 am
You fly in the front of the bus, right? Safe travels.
Safe travels.Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:48 pm
Well - I don't like to complain about travel. I think most of the time it is pretty amazing that you can get in a plane and be somewhere thousands of miles away in day, and sometimes it all doesn't go to plan. But yesterday was a bit of a bummer. Seedy, dirty bus from Florence to Pisa. Then friends who were on the same flight as us had a real disaster on their hands when a 13 year old friend traveling with them was not allowed to board (huge mess that I won't detail here).
The flight was a little late leaving, but we got in early (yea!). What? No gate because we were early?? Long story short - landed at 4, didn't get the family into the rental car until 7 - (which is already 1 AM for us coming from Italy). 3 hours from landing to getting back to the terminal with a rental car. That is crazy. JFK Delta terminal 3 - a complete disaster. Traffic inside the airport from the rental car area back to the terminals, a disaster. Given wrong/misleading information from staff, a disaster. Traffic on the Belt Parkway leaving the airport, a disaster. We took the Delta flight from Pisa to JFK since it was non-stop and spent a little more for it - but it definitely wasn't worth it.
I have traveled more than usual the last couple of years, and frankly coming "home" to JFK was an awful experience. I have been in better, more modern, much cleaner, and way more efficient airports all over Europe, in Japan, and China. For an international terminal, if I was a foreigner landing at Delta's terminal 3 I would be completely in shock! Anyway - my .02 cents.
The flight was a little late leaving, but we got in early (yea!). What? No gate because we were early?? Long story short - landed at 4, didn't get the family into the rental car until 7 - (which is already 1 AM for us coming from Italy). 3 hours from landing to getting back to the terminal with a rental car. That is crazy. JFK Delta terminal 3 - a complete disaster. Traffic inside the airport from the rental car area back to the terminals, a disaster. Given wrong/misleading information from staff, a disaster. Traffic on the Belt Parkway leaving the airport, a disaster. We took the Delta flight from Pisa to JFK since it was non-stop and spent a little more for it - but it definitely wasn't worth it.
I have traveled more than usual the last couple of years, and frankly coming "home" to JFK was an awful experience. I have been in better, more modern, much cleaner, and way more efficient airports all over Europe, in Japan, and China. For an international terminal, if I was a foreigner landing at Delta's terminal 3 I would be completely in shock! Anyway - my .02 cents.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 6:42 pm
Welcome home, Anthony. Are you enjoying the t-storms today?
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 7:00 pm
Very nice - that last one just ended. At least it is not too hot. It was 99 for days in Florence before we left.mbw1024 wrote:Welcome home, Anthony. Are you enjoying the t-storms today?
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 7:50 pm
It was 100+ last week. Hopefully that is gone for a while.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 8:04 pm
Anthony, that travel day sounds brutal! We hate flying through JFK.
I hope that you and your family will have a very good vacation... sailing??? Any chances for a quick trip to the VI???
Enjoy!
I hope that you and your family will have a very good vacation... sailing??? Any chances for a quick trip to the VI???
Enjoy!
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:03 pm
What is this word "vacation" you speak of??? 
(I did have one this year though - a week in Budapest with the whole family and my brother).
I am hoping to make it to the VI - but just not sure yet. We have a lot of stuff to wrap up here in NJ this summer...
BTW Budapest is a highly recommended place - still great bargains to be had with the US $, great, different, and international food (as well of course Hungarian food), the Opera, the spas, architecture, museums, cheap public transportation, etc. It can be a little challenge with the language as it is not based on latin or the romance languages and there are so many accents, etc. but it is worth it.
(I did have one this year though - a week in Budapest with the whole family and my brother).I am hoping to make it to the VI - but just not sure yet. We have a lot of stuff to wrap up here in NJ this summer...
BTW Budapest is a highly recommended place - still great bargains to be had with the US $, great, different, and international food (as well of course Hungarian food), the Opera, the spas, architecture, museums, cheap public transportation, etc. It can be a little challenge with the language as it is not based on latin or the romance languages and there are so many accents, etc. but it is worth it.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:20 pm
If not a vacation, maybe a couple of long naps or full nights of sleep! 
Budapest sounds like a great place; hope you can get back there for more family AND tourist times.
Budapest sounds like a great place; hope you can get back there for more family AND tourist times.
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:29 am
Can you say "Moose and Squirrel"?Anthony wrote:It can be a little challenge with the language as it is not based on latin or the romance languages and there are so many accents, etc. but it is worth it.
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 2:26 am
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