There are, like many bipedal cousins, events that get us excited.\u00a0 I could get all oprah and tell you that top on that list was the day i got married or the day my children were born.\u00a0 And i’d be a ruddy fool if those days werent already so high on the list as to be sancrosacnt from said list.\u00a0 But beyond those, there are days that just rise. Today, i just booked and paid for round trip to New York City.<\/p>\n
See, i dont travel a whole lot.\u00a0 For good or ill, here is just where i am. So when i do travel, besides the cost, i’m flippin jazzed.\u00a0 I have some residual flying issues thanks to Faces of Death.\u00a0 But they’re mostly squeltched by any intelligent beings embrace of odds and frequency.\u00a0 And usually, when i do travel, its over holiday seasons where i’d be better off over a barrel then in a cramped 17 year old seat managed by disgruntled under-paid versions of what should be ass kissers for what i’m paying.<\/p>\n
But there is a special mood in the hours & days post purchase of a paid ticket to NYC.\u00a0 This manic scatterbrain froth on what you’re going to do, what you’ll have time to do, or from whom you’ll have to keep secret your visit for a spectrum of reasons.\u00a0 Until they either precog it from any of the social networks to which you post, or the Flickr pictures which should follow.<\/p>\n
Which isnt something unique to NYC. Whenever you visit ANY city in which you’re friends inhabit, you have choice.\u00a0 You can fly under some custom radar and connect with only a subset.\u00a0 Or, you can be the saint & broadcast your availability.\u00a0 Each has their pitfalls.\u00a0 You tell a select few, those left out may take offence, prompting you to defend what EVERYONE will claim as a right of travel in aforeign city: self proclaimed radar signature.\u00a0 On the flip, you tell everyone, you’re left with a logistic headache of location and time and date that no one should have to deal with when on holiday (let along last mijnute holiday).<\/p>\n
We’re going out there as a fluke. Anna has an event for which her company is sending her out.\u00a0 So her plane ticket and at least 1x hotel night is paid for.\u00a0 Its our 10-year anniverary. Its my 39th birthday.\u00a0 The thought process that re-focused our efforts towards a Manhattan versus Napa celbration wasnt to elaborate.<\/p>\n
But the moment i hit print on the tickets for the Chanyi\/Winnel tickets, i distinctly remember communing with anna in a way i dont usually.\u00a0 We’re going to NYC.\u00a0 We’re going.\u00a0 And before that, for the HBO special, same thing: preternatural excitement.\u00a0 And before that, was Jenny & Ricks wedding.\u00a0 Where in an already struggling state from the previous nights wedding, we parked our rental car in a strange CT parking lot and railed into our city.\u00a0 We had less than 36 hours that time.\u00a0 But each of them worth if when you consider your attitude & self-worth during.\u00a0 And before all that was, for me, the mother of all NYC trips: the mightly Greggi Seanna Foursome in October 2000.<\/p>\n
But before that, my experience with Manhattan was built upon 10 year old memories getting parented around various comic stores with my cousin dave.\u00a0 And before that, at 17 taking the train from Choate to meet my aunt & uncle.\u00a0 But the first adult adventure was that trip in 2000 with Greggi.\u00a0 And it was so authentic.\u00a0 We rented a studio in Murray Hill (really?).\u00a0 A 3rd floor walkup that Regi found posted in a window on Union Street in SF.\u00a0 We didnt know then how efficient we were being by eschewing NYC hoteliers and stationing ourselves in real aparments.\u00a0 All credit to Regi there.\u00a0 For she promptly moved out there, and has been instrumental with each excursion since then.<\/p>\n
Every trip out there justifies my excitement befoirehand.\u00a0 and this one proves to be no differnt.\u00a0 iwe’re arriving and departing at differnet times.\u00a0 we have diferent adgendas.\u00a0 but we seek to mine the same result from that blasted city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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