New York, Boston & New England - Day 9

Sadly the last day of this year's trip to the States (really feels like I'm going to be there every second year...) is approaching. My flight was scheduled for 3pm, so I still had time to chill out nearby. I grabed an egg and ham bagel as well as a Starbucks Vanilla Latte (honestly, my first Starbucks coffee during the trip: how could that happen?!) and walked over to Central Park. Temperatures were picking up, so I enjoyed my breakfast in the early morning sun. It is so interesting to see the city "getting up". Also the views in Central Park let you think you're somewhere completely else, while around the corner you see Midtown skyscrapers in the horizon.
Around noon, it was time to get the suitcase and finally leave for JFK. This time, I took the Jamaica route (not the Carribean but Queens!) instead of the usually used southern route through Brooklyn. Don't know why I always did the Brooklyn tour, but going through Queens is so much nicer. Often you could see Manhattan's skyline through the (milky) subway windows! So cool somehow.
At the check-in counter, a friendly Lufthansa staff member told me that I had three kilos baggage overweight and I had to pay another 150 bucks to get them through (lots of clothes and two Starbucks coffee pots really weigh that much...). Usually. After an inner sigh I thanked the guy for allowing me to keep my savings I made at my extensive shopping tours the days before. While editing my photos till boarding I decided to spent my last four dollars on a small coffee. Ain't that much you get on an airport anyway, I thought. Wrong. I got like half a liter of black gold, which was fine if you wanted to stay awake for a long time. But my initial strategy was another: getting asleep on the plane as soon as possible to avoid a huge jet lag. Hmm, believe I should have spent the money on something else... However, on the plane it looked like I had all four seats next to me for myself at least. Just before closing the doors an absolutely charming American man sat down there. Ummm, less space and less sleep... I still had the dream of sleeping after dinner (as bad as always), but the clever one next to me felt more like reading newspapers with his bright lights on. Thank you very much. I fought like two hours to find a reasonable sleeping position on two seats, pretty unfunny. What I got was being awake with closed eyes, so jet-lag here I come. Proving the intelligence of my seat neighbor, he decided to stop reading one hour before landing and sleeping the rest of the flight. Sympathy is different. :D Of course, to follow up my chain of luck that night, my connecting flight from Frankfurt to Dresden was cancelled, so I was in the position to enjoy the comforts of one of the most boring airports in the world for two more hours. I even missed the handing out of food vouchers...
Those unfortunes didn't harm the fun I had on this trip anyway. Being back to New York is always so exciting, everything is changing so quickly. Exploring an unknown city like Boston is one of my favorite hobbies and driving around the nice parts of the US countryside is exceptionally enjoyable too! So thank you USA for another amazing time there!

So this was the last part of the New York, Boston & New England photo series. As you've read before, I tried out the capacities of my camera with one more project. So be excited to see a 6:30 mins video feature viewable online next weekend. Hope you'll like it!