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Your Airport is So Terrible, It gets a Second Post
First off, there are no photos with this post because taking pictures at Newark could quickly result in someone trying to fight you. My hatred for Newark’s Liberty Airport is not a well-kept secret. And yet somehow, amazingly, it continues to find new ways to disappoint me. I had just finished recurrent training in the…
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Extended Sojourn in New Jersey
It was June. Restaurants were opening, children were laughing, birds were singing. Also, the virus was spreading at record speed. So needless to say, there was some conflicting messaging going on. When things first looked like they might be improving in early June, Nicole and I looked into going to the Azores in Portugal since…
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Why Your Airport is Actually the Worst: Newark Edition
It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything here, and much longer since I’ve submitted an entry into my “Airports that Suck” category. In the past, with Detroit and Cincinnati, I had expressed a lot of opinions. I am going to do something crazy here and just use cold hard facts . . .…
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Back in the "City"
For what would be my longest amount of time off for the entire month of March, I double-legged it from Seattle over to Newark by way of Minneapolis, my old stomping grounds. Doing it that way allowed me to arrive at a reasonable hour instead of 6am after a red-eye. Thanks in part to loud…
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It’s Up to You, Newark, New York.
Yes, I’m still here. The fact of the matter is that I can count on one hand how many overnights I have had over the last two months. Two. I was in Fresno once and ate at Quizno’s twice. This fact is perhaps not worthy of a blog post. And last week I was overnight…
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Ah, the Stress of Holiday Travel
We find our heroes in Michigan’s upper peninsula. After a significant delay due to low visibility, we finally acquired the aircraft, flew it to Detroit, turned around, and did an approach to minimums in Escanaba, Michigan. The following morning, we all woke up at 5am in an attempt to take the first flight to Detroit…
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Fall in Jersey
Two days off. Where should I go? Well, across the country of course. Nicole was keen to return to her motherland in order to shake hands and fist pump with a new arrival to her family, so I tagged along. My disdain for the garden state and the majority of its residents is rarely disguised,…
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