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NO BLOGS UNTIL THURSDAY or so. I’m up early tomorrow to fly to New York. I’ll be back on Wednesday, but I’m fairly certain I won’t be in a blogging state of mind so soon after I return.

This will be my ninth visit to that city in 21 years. The very first time I went there by bus, making a stopover at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan. The company I work for now has its head offices about two blocks away from that transit hub, and I’ve caught the airport bus there on recent visits.

But all that was in the distant future in the spring of 1982 — I was on a 7,000-mile, month-long trip via Greyhound (those were the days!), and had a layover in NY en route from Washington, DC to Boston. I remember being impressed by the PA Bus Terminal, which looked more like an airport than most of the other bus stations I’d seen, which tended toward seediness. And I remember a fellow who claimed to be a South American striking up a conversation with me and inviting me to his hotel room — a fellow who tried to pick me up, that is. I politely declined.

Ah, memories of New York. This trip will be too short to see much new, but I will try.