Berlin!

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I get the best messages from my friends.

"Heya, I'm assuming you missed your flight but got put on another and just have no way to communicate until you're here.

Hope you arrive today, I should be in all day and if I'm not I'll leave instructions for you at the front door. Monday I have to leave around 10am but will again leave instructions and some of my roommates might be around to open.

Hope you make it and are not in fact in jail or China.

Best!

- LD"

Really I just had a 17-and-a-half hour layover in Newark. I arrived "on time," just a day or so later than he expected. The concern was nice, though! Thanks, Luis!

During said layover, I took the PATH and public bus ($3.25, rather than $15 for the express bus) over to New York City, relaxed (napped) in cafe chairs and parks, walked around the city, caught the most recent Harry Potter flick (the 3d made it marginally better, but wasn't anything amazing), found a bag (very small) of marijuana under a park bench (I thought that only happened at festivals?), and generally had a good time. I'd have met up with friends, maybe even stayed with someone, except I didn't realize I'd have a 17 hour layover until I arrived in Newark around midnight on Saturday (and I wasn't able to get in to New York until 2am or so...)... and BenD was out of town... and Tim was all the way over in Brooklyn and gearing up for Frisbee by the time I got ahold of him... and Luis was in Berlin...

Speaking of Luis, he's the one that wrote that quoted message above, so it actually turns out *great* that he's in Berlin, rather than New York, as now *I'm* in Berlin, staying with him and stealing his intarwubs.

I don't have a phone these days, but I should be on e-mail every few days.

Hugs!
~Tinker (George)

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