I have become famous for proposing a means to get between Hartford and JFK. I seldom get a positive response to the proposed process. Today I have an opportunity to do a good test. I am flying home from Bluffton via JFK. Tina is flying home directly to BDL. She, on Southwest because she has a voucher; I will use Delta because it is cheaper, I don’t like Southwest and I can test my process with a control to the experiment.
I should explain why Tina and I are taking one way trips from Bluffton to Hartford. We are in the process of moving to South Carolina. One of the challenges was to get our old Jeep there. Tina and I drove it 1080 miles to get it there. That is surely worth a blog post that may follow later.
Tina departs at 7:10 am and arrives at BDL at 11:20 after a plane change and layover at BWI. I leave at 7:25 am and arrive at JFK at 9:55 am.
As my plane taxis away from the terminal, I note that Tina’s flight has not yet left.
About to land. My arrival is closer to 9:00 am than 9:55 am. But I am not on the ground yet. The next leg of my journey and the first leg of my test is to take the Airtrain from my terminal to Jamaica Station.
On the Airtrain at 9:40 am on my way to Jamaica Station. Paid the $8.25 + $1.00 for a Metro Card to get out of the Station.
Next I am catching the 10:11 LIRR train to Grand Central in Manhattan. $5.00 . Make that the 10:20 train because the 10:11 is late. Made it on the train.
Made it in time to make the 11:04 to New Haven. $11.75 one way off peak senior.
Tina won the race, if it was a race. She got home about 12:30 pm
I got to New Haven about 1:15 pm. The next CT Rail was 3:25 so I opted to go the $20.70 Amtrak ticket to Hartford on n the Vermonter that left at 1:30. Getting to Hartford at 2:11. Tina is going to pick me up.
Got home at 2:20 pm. Cost was about $22.70