Off to New York
Off to Tokyo... via New York and Vermont
This morning I'm off on a quick business trip to upstate New York, and then a day in Tokyo. Say what?? LOL. Another beautiful Colorado morning.
OK, the plane arrived at 6am from Lihue. Delay excuse #1...
Delay excuse #2...
Welcome to United, where half the plane is Group 1, which is really like Group 6 after Global Services, families, military, handicapped and 1K.
Finally onboard, our comfy lie flat 757.
Pretty good snow removal considering we had an 8" snow fall the day before.
United's Breakfast Frittata. Not bad, but please dump the inedible Chobani.
Welcome to rainy Newark.
With a 3+ hour connection, plenty of time to head over the Terminal B and a PCR test for Japan...
... Japan wants 3 jabs or PCR.
30 minutes later, I have my negative result and headed back to Terminal C.
Terminal B PreCheck. Seriously? The CLEAR line was even worse.
Still plenty of time for the United Club. Cool automatic entry by scanning your boarding pass.
With a reasonable food spread... so much better than an Admirals Club.
We really need to remind people??
I rarely use EWR but had to laugh at all the gate changes on my connecting EWR-BTV flight this afternoon. Fortunately, I can monitor the gate action from the attractive UC.
Time to head out for my flight to BTV.
Our captain tonight decided that the crew had worked enough today as he announced that "due to severe turbulence all the way to Burlington, I've asked the FA to stay seated for the entire flight". And of course, other than one 5 second mild chop, there wasn't a hint of turbulence during the flight. And on approach, the front cabin FA started walking down the aisle with a trash bag just as the rear FA announced "due the turbulence, we won't be collecting trash today..." 
Welcome to Vermont.
My home for the next two nights, the comfy Residence Inn Colchester.
Time for dinner and this was the closest place on a snowy night.
Not bad and the fries were great.
The next morning.
Residence Inn breakfast.
Off to the Grand Isle Ferry and New York.
This was pretty cool and cut up to 30 minutes off the drive.
My Instagram story of my long day of travel today.