SUNDAY: Liberty Airport, Newark

People! I can’t recommend Newark Airport enough! A mere 20 minute drive from downtown Manhattan, (or 12 hours’ drive from Shaker Village Kentucky as the case may be) is this place where, unlike JFK and San Francisco airports, both of which I’ve tried in the last two years, you can get through check-in AND security in 10 to 12 minutes.

It would have taken only 10 minutes for me if it hadn’t been for the automatic scanning check-in had a problem with my non-existant Hong Kong “visa”.
Ha ha HAAAA! I assured the official bustling up: I am, my good man, a permanent resident of the fine communist colony of Hong Kong and have the card to prove it! I don’t need any plebs-y visa.
And with that, I zoomed through security, stopping briefly to demonstrate that my necklace (Shenzhen special) wasn’t an intricate bomb although it showed up on the scanner like a huge menacing yellow death-threat around my neck.

But the toilets were grim and under-doored. Yes, of course Liberty Airport isn’t as good or half as good as Hong Kong’s 赤鱲角 (Chek Lap “Kok” [as usual it should be GOK!!!!!]) airport. BUT I think its name is better. I think ‘liberty’ has a better ring to it than ‘red fish with bristly dorsal fins point (or Red Perch Point). But that’s just me. Right?

自由 (Ji yau – freedom, liberty)
機場 (Gei cheung – machine park/airport)
簽證 (Chim cheng – signature proof/visa)

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