The P-feezy passes the 200,000 mile mark!

On the way to Buckhead Church for a staff offsite, around 8:50am on Wednesday November 19th, 2008… history was made in the Huggins family.  1997 Nissan Pathfinder: one of the most reliable… ever!

18 hrs in New York…

Road Trip!  Takin it back to the college day wild hairs, Katie and I got to experience New York City together for a few hours which ended up being a nice change of pace from the lake weekends here in GA.  

• A walk down Fifth Avenue
• 5 minute make-over for Katie from Saks
• chillaxin in Central Park
• and a sea lion that grabbed our attention
• not to mention the 3 hours of traffic we sat through making our way out to Jersey
• but we got a peak at the statue of Liberty along side some real life NYC fire fighters who were too hungry to take our picture

so to all those with thoughts of completely spontaneous, RANDOM trips:  WHY NOT TAKE ONE?

 

 

 

 

 

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Accord Exterior

so maybe its an early mid-life crisis deal… or maybe I will be selling this to the highest bidder in the Macintosh High School parking lot next month.  But I found it on eBay and had to scratch the itch.  Katie and I are now the proud owners of a Honda Accord with 67,000 miles on it.  And it MIGHT happen to get over 30 miles to the gallon….  I’m just sayin.

 

The trip started out like this:

 

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::more so Martin entertaining himself on a plane ride::

 

 

8:11pm

so off to the airport we go, buddy passes in tow, and a Dad beaming from ear to ear.  After we fulfilled the Atlanta Bread Company tradition, Katie and I bolt off to security sucking down a strawberry smoothie so fast it gave the people in line behind us a brain freeze.  For some reason I felt the need to check the time on the ole blackberry (no no no… not an iPhone, at least not yet):

 

9:25pm

we get on the train to Concourse E and realize that there is no way on EARTH (or Atlanta) that we are making it to our flight on time.  But the panini and smoothie combo were off the hook.

 

9:32pm

we are standing in line behind 15 or 20 slightly irate travelers who have been getting bumped since yesterday morning and realize that God may want us to go home and get some much needed fellowship in with the Westlund family and my parental unit.

 

9:40pm

the gate is closed… 

 

touche’

there is a 10:25 to JFK that looks fabuloso for non-revers.  So back to the train to Concourse A we go.  Confident that they say 60% of the time, standby works… EVERY time.

 

10:30pm

right behind the weirdo Italian in a bright blue suit, Katie and I both get cleared and its nothin but I HEART NY from here on out.  The plane finally pushed back at 10:40 and I am typing at 30,000 ft as we speak.  Hello Big Apple and Hello Honda

 

11:20pm

more to come later, but this cabin pressure is SERIOUSLY anesthetic.  Feelin the flow…. might nod off for an hour or two.

 

12:40am

touch down in NYC at JFK International.  Let;s play the see how quickly you can find a hotel room in the Jersey City Hyatt game.  Ready,  Set.  Go.