I've always loved being in New York but in the quite-a-while since I was last here, I'd forgotten what a long hassle it usually is to get to New York. Long wait at the airport, long flight to the East Coast, long walk from the Baggage Claim to the limo I'd arranged, long trip from the airport to the hotel in Times Square, etc. I did though get a nice welcome. The second my plane touched down, before they'd even told us we could unfasten our seat belts, I received this cheery e-mail from the folks at Expedia.com —
— which would have been a nice gesture except that my flight landed, as planned, at JFK.
But I'm where I'm supposed to be and in a little while, I hope to be at a street corner on the Lower East Side, watching an intersection be officially nicknamed for a very great man. I'll let you know how it went.