Mary Panttaja

We’ve been traveling light this trip—no car rentals, as few taxis as possible. In Boston, nothing but the T (the Boston subway system) and walking. Yesterday’s trip back to the Newark airport went as follows:

• A mile walk to the subway station with our roller bags and computers.
• A longish subway ride to the train station
• An Amtrak train ride from Boston South Station to New York Penn Station
• A New Jersey transit train from NY Penn to Newark Liberty Airport (on which I penned most of this post)
• A monorail, the AirTrain, across the airport to Portal P
• A phone call to order up the Day’s Inn hotel van to take us to the hotel

All in all, very efficient. Though it was a big day of travel (and today was more of the same: bus to Newark airport, AirTrain to the terminal, flight to LA and then to SF; bus to the car park, and the drive home), we got a lot done. It is really possible to read and work on the trains and subways, so the time is not lost. The airplane is a little more difficult to work on for several reasons (space, power, network access, and that grim sleepiness that overtakes me on the plane), so today was not quite as productive.

Meanwhile, New Jersey was just there gliding by the window.