LAX to LGA

The School of Dance and Music’s school year just ended and I helped put on a Dance and Music Recital for my first time and it was so much fun. The owners offered to fly me to New York City with them for a business seminar on Dance and Music Schools. Since the majority of my family lives in upstate New York I flew in a few days early to spend time with family before meeting them in the city.

Well timing was a little precarious, my travel arrangements put me in New York the same time the rivers overflowed.

I flew into LaGuardia airport for the first time and it was awful I’ve never been to such an icky airport. From LaGuardia I took a bus to Port Authority bus terminal to catch a Grey Hound bus to upstate New York. Ick, Ick and double fucking ick! If you ever have to go to the Port Authority which I hope you don’t leave LOTS of time. The place is a maze it took me forever to find my bus terminal, I went up stairs and down escalators and down hallways and up more stairs, the place is huge and signs are like misguided jokes. This place is open 24hrs and has homeless people living in it. The bathroom near my bus waiting line was overflowing which added to it’s ambiance. After a few ‘fun’ hours in the middle of the night waiting in line for the bus I actually ended up sitting next to a very nice young lady who was getting ready to go intern with the World Health Organization and was going home from college to visit family. She was a blessing and a rarity on this bus trip.

Once I got ‘home’ upstate the views of the rivers overflowing were amazing. I spent 4th of July there and then headed back to the city for the Seminar. As part of the seminar we got to go on a chartered dinner cruise around the city harbor and stopped in front of the Statue of Liberty at Sunset. The food was amazing, it was the first time I was served hors d’oeuvres, that’s fun! Being on the water with the sun setting over New York city was a treat. We stayed at the Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge which is where I had my first solo bar visit. I went down and sat at the bar all by myself, at the age of 24 this was a first for me and what a fine bar it was. Kinda like the ones you would imagine in the movies, very business executive dark loungey with a New York twist, bartenders that looked like they had been there from the 40′s. I had an amazing Mojito and flat bread pizza. Dan and Liliana then came down from the room and joined me and split an ice cream sunday at the bar.

Anyways, I was so tired from the traveling I don’t even remember my flight back and the biggest memory is how amazingly happy I was on the water at sunset. Dan and Liliana were talking to some people on the deck and I had only known them for a few months. I was on the deck of this amazing boat and business of all things had brought me there. My business choice to leave corporate America and do something I love had paid for me to travel cross country and take a dinner cruise. I was doing something I loved with incredible people. It was one of those moments where you feel your life shifting under your feet so fast that you can hardly catch your breath.

So, for such a memorable trip I took almost no photos and on top of it I lost my hard drive shortly after loosing most of the ones I did take.