Archive for January, 2008
Tali, Fuego, Fortune
Mom picked us up from the heavily crowded, polluted NAIA Terminal 2 arrivals driveway, and from there we skipped over Manila and drove straight to Tali Beach, where we had borrowed a relative’s friend’s villa. (The trip is normally about two hours’ drive, but took six hours thanks to pre-New Year traffic and heavy SLEX [...]
Novotel Citygate
(Sorry for the writing gaps. Lingering jet lag plus bronchitis plus unpacking plus general readjustment is making me somewhat zombie-like.) At right, our room at Novotel CityGate Hotel near Hong Kong Airport (HKG). En route from JFK we had a 14 hour overnight layover here before transferring to a separately booked flight on Philippine Airlines [...]
JFK-LAX-HKG-MNL
From JFK Airport, the trip had three legs: 6 hours on United to Los Angeles, 16 hours on United to Hong Kong (where we would spend an overnight layover), and 2 hours on Philippine Airlines to Manila. Highlights of the flight included flyovers of the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, and Siberia; an overnight layover in [...]
The Trip to JFK Airport
To make it to a 6AM flight out of JFK from the NJ suburbs while spending as little as possible on transportation, we decided to go the ultra-hard but super-cheap way: NJ Transit to Penn Station, LIRR to Jamaica, and AirTrain to the airport — leaving at midnight to catch the last of the NJT [...]
Away Message
Happy 2008! Amy and I were in the Philippines for two weeks and now we are in Hong Kong for a couple of days to sightsee. (Trip map above.) Internet access in both locations has been neither frequent nor speedy for us, so I have not been able to update much, and will probably not [...]