NJ trip

[kitanzi]

As I've mentioned, I am going to NJ for a two week training course starting 3/14, so 3/18 (evening) to 3/20 I'm hoping to be able to go to NJ and see people. ACat is flying into La Guardia Friday and Maedbh7 is planning on going directly to NY also on a bus. I'm trying to figure out how to get from NJ to NY in such a way as to meet up with them and whoever else might be around and interested. The hotel website is useless, but the fact that they don't have an airport shuttle suggests they aren't close enough to the airport to make that a good mass transit jump on option and NJ Transit website doesn't seem to be helping me figure out what's anywhere near Morristown, which is where the hotel is. Do any of the local/localish people have advice or websites or resources? All help appreciated - plus it would be good to know where/when/who might be in the catherding plans for the weekend!

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[camwyn]

I used to live about fifteen minutes from Morristown. Now I live about fifteen minutes from Manhattan. The simplest way to get from Morristown to New York City is to get to the Morristown NJ Transit station and buy a Midtown Direct ticket- make sure you get it at the ticket office if the ticket office is open, or they'll make you pay $5 extra to buy the ticket on the train. Midtown Direct takes you straight to NY's Penn Station, which is on 33rd Street and takes up an entire block. 's right next to Madison Square Garden and you can get other trains to most of the city from Penn, plus there's buses but I don't know them.

There are also bus lines that run out of Morristown, but when I lived near there it was generally train or bike or car, rather than bus, for me.

I live in Jersey City now. The easiest way to visit, if you wanted to visit, would probably involve you getting to the train station and getting a ticket to Hoboken instead- do not take the Midtown Direct train and assume it stops in Hoboken, because it doesn't. The Hoboken train stops more often than Midtown Direct, so it's slower- takes around an hour to cover a distance a car could manage in half an hour to forty minutes. I can come to Hoboken quite easily. Or, barring that, I can come to Morristown pretty easily too.

I can also give you my phone number if you like.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

We could meet up in Morristown at some point during either week for dinner or something, if you like? The weekend in the middle is looking like it's going to be in NYC, practicing Zen Tourism with ACat and Maedbh7. :) I don't know if other people will be coming along or not, it's all pretty vague aside from those few set facts. As much as there are many people I'd love to see while I'm in the general area, I'm not interested in prodigies of cat herding to manage it, but something simple would be welcome.