Category: Travel

We ran the streets again today. Hit up a couple stores and a photography exhibit.  We did a lot of walking and exploring through the city.  I also got to have lunch at a great sushi restaurant with a very good old friend Jamie and her dad.

For all the pictures for Day 2, Click HERE.

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I get to the airport in the morning, 6:30 in the morning, extremely excited for my 3 flights just to get to New York. I make it through security and wait for my flight. I wind up talking to a flight agent about video and photography as he saw my tripod. Then we got talking surfing and surfing trips, as his son was a ranked surfer on the east coast. He was a really nice guy.

Later they get to call my flight to Philly. I go up to the kiosk and talk to another agent, to see if there was room on the direct flight that took off a little later. He hooked it up and I scored my self a nonstop to NYC. Whether it was because of Christmas or talking surfing with his buddy, I got lucky. I got to talking with the two of them after the other flight had left and they asked to check out my Cape Hatteras Photo book. 15 minutes later there were 4 agents checking it out, and they seemed stoked on the book. It was really cool to see them excited about the photos.

I made it into NYC 4 hours a head of time… go figure that would have happened traveling on Christmas. I cabbed it to my sister’s place where I meet up with the family. We spent the rest of the day wondering the streets. I must say it’s a bit of a culture shock going from Hatteras to NYC.

To see all of today’s pictures click HERE.

0809 Trip Log:
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This trip had a tough start to say the least. After getting the time off of work, it was time to schedule the flights. I checked all the typical online booking sites. I selected the 12 flights to the trip and went to check out. I gave my card #, but it didn’t go through. I then wound up spending 9 hours in two days on the phone with Orbitz, with no luck.

I then talked to a travel agent at AAA. I gave him all the same flights and again it didn’t go through. He then found out that you can only book 8 legs of a flight onto one ticket. We then figured out the most economical way to split up the marathon of a trip. I called Orbitz back up, and booked the flights. The next step was packing a 50 lbs bag for the 12 flights, 5 stops, 3 climate changes and everything between a suit and boardshorts.