We rock up at the budget car parking 'facility'
A Trip to Short Hills, New Jersey, United States - 20th October 2018
We head off to New York and New Jersey for a few days over half term - the trip being the first real test of flying with The Boys for an extended period of time, at least compared to previous aeroplane trips which have been no further than Mallorca or Barcelona. We're also staying with Phil and Tania at their pad in Short Hills - a nice part of New Jersey only 20 or 30 miles from Manhattan itself, with a direct rail link to Penn Station on 7th Avenue. This gives us a nice flavour of real "small town USA" as well as affording some respite from the frantic city. After we get there, we have an easy day visiting the Great Swamp in NJ, followed by a Diner experience at the Broadway Diner in nearby Summit.
next album: Open-top Buses and a Day at the Museum, New York, United States - 22nd October 2018
previous album: Harry's Investiture and Lachie Leaves, Suffolk and London - 17th October 2018
We're in a golf club car park near West Drayton
The boys eat biscuits whilst we hang around for ages
Fred hauls his bag as we get dropped off at T2
Isobel heads off into Terminal 2
The new Terminal 2 is much improved
Fred and Harry hang around as we check in
Harry and Isobel
Harry on the travelator
A BA 737 trundles past
A fuel tanker called Tomato
The boys are excited with in-seat entertainment
A BA 777 in the distance
We get pushed back
Another 737 taxis to the gate
The chaos of Terminal 2's apron
A plane heads off into the sunset
A 747 taxis in the dusk
Heathrow's Terminal 5
The M25 snakes past the resevoirs
Obligatory clouds-and-wing photo
The cabin is a sea of seat-back screens in the dark
Moonlit clouds over the Atlantic
The first glimpse of New York city lights
A race track and a football field
Isobel and the boys pile off the plane
Relaxing in Phil's lounge
Phil hauls out his actual 1980s Lego stash
Phil has an large collection of Lego brochures
Early 1980's Lego wasn't gendered at all, oh no
A bit of old-school Lego railway track
The boys walk along a kerb
Simon and Harry run around in the garden
A curious papered-up building in a car park
Meyersville Presbyterian Church, near the Swamp
A fire hydrant and letterbox on a post
Volunteers bring out a selection of dead animals
Harry holds up a dead rat by its tail
We head off into the trees
Off into the autumn leaves
In the trees of the Great Swamp
The Garden Club of America plaque, 1965
Nice green leaves against the blue sky
The boardwalk looks like some old railway track
Funky stripey mushrooms on a log
A silver-bleached boardwalk
The boys look at more dead animal bits
Fred's got a huge turtle shell
The Broadway Diner basement
Phil, Simon and Fred in the Broadway Diner
Fred makes paper aeroplanes
All the boys are making aeroplanes now
Fred has a milkshake
Broadway Diner
The Broadway Diner in Summit, New Jersey
A Summit side street
Phil and Isobel get some cash out
A Summit strip mall
Fred and Harry mass around in the London room
Fred sleeps like a baby on a pile of cushions
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We rock up at the budget car parking 'facility'
We rock up at the budget car parking 'facility'
We're in a golf club car park near West Drayton
The boys eat biscuits whilst we hang around for ages
Fred hauls his bag as we get dropped off at T2
Isobel heads off into Terminal 2
The new Terminal 2 is much improved
Fred and Harry hang around as we check in
Harry and Isobel
Harry on the travelator
A BA 737 trundles past
A fuel tanker called Tomato
The boys are excited with in-seat entertainment
A BA 777 in the distance
We get pushed back
Another 737 taxis to the gate
The chaos of Terminal 2's apron
A plane heads off into the sunset
A 747 taxis in the dusk
Heathrow's Terminal 5
The M25 snakes past the resevoirs
Obligatory clouds-and-wing photo
The cabin is a sea of seat-back screens in the dark
Moonlit clouds over the Atlantic
The first glimpse of New York city lights
A race track and a football field
Isobel and the boys pile off the plane
Relaxing in Phil's lounge
Phil hauls out his actual 1980s Lego stash
Phil has an large collection of Lego brochures
Early 1980's Lego wasn't gendered at all, oh no
A bit of old-school Lego railway track
The boys walk along a kerb
Simon and Harry run around in the garden
A curious papered-up building in a car park
Meyersville Presbyterian Church, near the Swamp
A fire hydrant and letterbox on a post
Volunteers bring out a selection of dead animals
Harry holds up a dead rat by its tail
We head off into the trees
Off into the autumn leaves
In the trees of the Great Swamp
The Garden Club of America plaque, 1965
Nice green leaves against the blue sky
The boardwalk looks like some old railway track
Funky stripey mushrooms on a log
A silver-bleached boardwalk
The boys look at more dead animal bits
Fred's got a huge turtle shell
The Broadway Diner basement
Phil, Simon and Fred in the Broadway Diner
Fred makes paper aeroplanes
All the boys are making aeroplanes now
Fred has a milkshake
Broadway Diner
The Broadway Diner in Summit, New Jersey
A Summit side street
Phil and Isobel get some cash out
A Summit strip mall
Fred and Harry mass around in the London room
Fred sleeps like a baby on a pile of cushions