A Quick Trip To NYC Part 3: Orlando Treat
On the morning of Sunday, October 26, Paige and I got up, packed, and got on a subway to get to the bus station. You see, our flight home was actually not out of New York. Our flight was from New Jersey, to Orlando with a connecting flight to Columbus. Travel was clearly not our friend this trip because we got to this bus station which unfortunately had two levels, and we were on the wrong one and we missed the bus by like 30 seconds, so we had to Lyft to New Jersey. As if that wasn’t enough, our first flight was delayed so by the time we landed in Orlando, our connecting flight had already taken off.
“So in other words,” Pop-pop said, once Paige and I finished telling the story, “you tried to save $5.00, on a flight to New York and got stranded here.”
We laughed at his oversimplification of the story, and then Paige explained, “well actually we have another connecting flight in Fort Lauderdale tomorrow.”
Before we made it back to Sara’s house, we decided to go to dinner. We ended up at a local restaurant called F & D Italian Kitchen, which we went to when Paige and I made our last solo trip to Orlando (Final Family Introductions). As we walked in, I looked at the table that we sat at last year and realized how much has changed since then. After dinner, we went to Sara’s house and met her dog Jasper. Sara showed us to our room and after that we all spent the night watching a movie.
Now I am aware that not much happened in this installment, but I still wanted to write it. Firstly because I have been flying to Florida on my own since 2019, but usually I have access to the entire city. Despite this, and the fact that we spent most of our time at Sara’s house, this epilogue to our trip to New York was still very entertaining for us.
On top of that, Paige and I had to leave my family vacation from Florida last summer early so I could go back to work (Plane Old Friends/The Other Side Of Fear). As we got ready for bed I thought about how slightly disappointed we were about having to leave and how stressed out we had been about travel specifically during the NYC trip. The extra time in Orlando showed me that seemingly unnecessary stress is just life’s way of balancing things out.
Have A Greattastic Day and be Safe
J. Mitchie Ulibarri
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