Day 0: Travel to Queens.
Normally, I drive to RQS’s place and park my car in her neighborhood. This week, it was not the case, as I couldn’t leave my car on a city street due to alternate side of the street parking that takes place during weekdays. So, I called a cab to the station, and had a one way chat with a cabbie which had a bone to pick with Uber and Lyft for not having to follow any regulations for passenger rides.
When I arrived at Croton Harmon, I found that I had just missed a train to the city, and had to kill time before a local train arrived. The train ride was uneventful, but I realized that I had nothing to eat before getting on the train. So I stopper into the food court at Grand Central to pick up a quick bite to eat, then hump my bag and CPAP machine onto the subway. In the post-Covid Grand Central, there are few places to have a seat, even to eat something from one of the food vendors still open. Everything is geared to standing up at a high table, to keep people from lingering. Luckily, I found a ‘handicapped table’ which I used while quickly eating a sandwich.
Eating the sandwich was the smartest thing I could have done. I took the subway to Bleeker street, where I could connect with the M train going out to Queens. This was a big mistake, as there were no (or few) M trains running this afternoon. (I had checked service outages before making this route decision.) So, after waiting more than 30 minutes, I bailed and went back to Union Square to catch another train to RQS’s neighborhood.
The whole trip took 4 hours, for what would normally be a 2 hour trip. I was both hungry and tired before I got to RQS’s place, and after a little rest, we went to eat. Shortly after dinner, we went to bed early, in anticipation of the trip to come.
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