Today is the official start to Season Two.
(Yeah, it’s maybe a little silly to think of it like a TV season, but it helps me wrap my brain around why I stopped doing videos when we got back to the US.)
We grabbed the train in Little Silver to head out to JFK. Flight’s not until tomorrow so we didn’t need to be in any hurry; we’ll spend the night in the TWA hotel attached to Terminal 5 and be ready to walk onto the flight tomorrow night.
Had fun playing around with the new addition to the cinematography stash – a Kenu Stance. It’s a little magsafe mini-tripod that can magnetize to surfaces or clamp around bars or tree limbs — it fills the job of my old MonkeyPod but is way more compact and inconspicuous. (Plus I know how to attach it to my phone.)
(The opposing luggage rack made a great hanging spot.)
We were hungry when we got into Penn and we knew that the remaining train rides weren’t quite as schedule-dependent as the first leg, so we wandered around a little and finally settled on a place called Mas Tacos to grab lunch. The sign out front said “voted best birria in NYC” and while I don’t know where exactly that could have happened, we did both get birria tacos and they were definitely better than you could expect from a train station basement. The Topo Chicos were just icing on the cake.
The remaining public transportation was uneventful. LIRR to Jamaica, then the AirTrain out to JFK. We made it to the hotel pretty much right at our 4 o’clock check in time.
The TWA hotel uses the old 1960’s TWA Flight Center to anchor a couple of hotel room wings. It’s got a fun retro vibe — they really go all in with the brand. They’ve even parked an airliner in the back yard and turned it into a cocktail lounge — yeah, it should go without saying that we got drinks first thing.
We grabbed a quick dinner in the hotel, then took a piece of tiramisu to go and crashed in the hotel room. Very ready to go tomorrow!