Airports and NYC
Yesterday was a day on the move. I started at 11am when I left the hostel in San Francisco, and didn't stop until 1am when I arrived at the hostel here in the Big Apple. (There was a 3hr time difference though, so not quite as bad as it seems.)Yesterday was also only the second time I've been searched prior to boarding a plane. The first was in Fiji, and they were pretty lax - they missed the matches and lighter in the bag they searched! (I did give them to them anyway, though.) It was kind of strange to see all my possessions laid out on a table, it showed just how little I own at the moment. The funniest thing was that the girl in front of me had a bra that obviously kept setting the hand-held metal detectors off! I had to try pretty hard not to giggle - probably bad form when around US Customs.
And I still went on board with matches and lighters! Although I did relegate my leatherman to the hold - that might be pushing it a little.
NYC is a fairly nice place, but at the moment it's going down as "just another big city". It's hot here though, the humidity is way up there even if the heat isn't. I had a wander round today, and went past the former site of the twin towers. It's really bizarre, if you didn't know the history it just looks like another building site. It was also kind of surreal to see parents having children pose in front of it. That wouldn't be my first choice holiday snap.
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