Mateyush
@mateyush.bsky.social
Geographer and one-time aviation and transportation planner. DC now after stops in CDMX, NYC, Shanghai, Jerusalem, Dubai, and Montreal, but always and forever a proud New Jerseyan.
The dough is a little rubbery.
January 18, 2026 at 4:20 PM
The dough is a little rubbery.
This is what most flights back from Israel are like. Leave Tel Aviv around midnight, get 10 hours of sleep in 5 hours of clock time, arrive 5am-6am Eastern.
January 14, 2026 at 9:51 PM
This is what most flights back from Israel are like. Leave Tel Aviv around midnight, get 10 hours of sleep in 5 hours of clock time, arrive 5am-6am Eastern.
This is actually amazingly close. Warren gets north because it's culturally the same as Sussex, and Union gets a little complex (west of the Parkway is Central, east of it is North; though Rahway is Central), but otherwise nailed it.
January 14, 2026 at 9:34 PM
This is actually amazingly close. Warren gets north because it's culturally the same as Sussex, and Union gets a little complex (west of the Parkway is Central, east of it is North; though Rahway is Central), but otherwise nailed it.
Old Testament (in book form). You wouldn't tote around a Torah scroll, which for one, weighs about 25 pounds.
January 13, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Old Testament (in book form). You wouldn't tote around a Torah scroll, which for one, weighs about 25 pounds.
I would make an exception to my avoidance of all things Germany and learn how to drive stick if I had a Karmann Ghia. Preferably an orange one.
January 12, 2026 at 6:27 PM
I would make an exception to my avoidance of all things Germany and learn how to drive stick if I had a Karmann Ghia. Preferably an orange one.
I didn't realize how little Allegiant was Las Vegas and how much was serving Florida off of every 7000' runway in the Midwest.
January 11, 2026 at 10:20 PM
I didn't realize how little Allegiant was Las Vegas and how much was serving Florida off of every 7000' runway in the Midwest.
Dulles has a ton of extra capacity. It's busy for 2 hours a day during the connection banks, but that's it. Philadelphia has gate space issues but you can get more capacity with upgauging and shifting some of the north-south connections to go over Charlotte.
January 11, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Dulles has a ton of extra capacity. It's busy for 2 hours a day during the connection banks, but that's it. Philadelphia has gate space issues but you can get more capacity with upgauging and shifting some of the north-south connections to go over Charlotte.
American uses Philadelphia to funnel domestic connections onto Europe flights to protect the JFK-origin seats for higher yield New York O&D passengers. United uses Dulles the same way.
January 11, 2026 at 8:51 PM
American uses Philadelphia to funnel domestic connections onto Europe flights to protect the JFK-origin seats for higher yield New York O&D passengers. United uses Dulles the same way.
Ironically, Berlin was one of the main places Tel Avivis flocked to in the aughts as the tech boom hit and everyone else got priced out of the city.
January 11, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Ironically, Berlin was one of the main places Tel Avivis flocked to in the aughts as the tech boom hit and everyone else got priced out of the city.
South Tel Aviv, the hub of migrant workers from Africa and the Philippines, is kinda gritty. Everything else is either rundown Bauhaus or brand new high-rises that are replacing it (called evacuate-and-build; it rhymes in Hebrew). Jaffa was never gritty, but is being rapidly gentrified.
January 11, 2026 at 7:23 PM
South Tel Aviv, the hub of migrant workers from Africa and the Philippines, is kinda gritty. Everything else is either rundown Bauhaus or brand new high-rises that are replacing it (called evacuate-and-build; it rhymes in Hebrew). Jaffa was never gritty, but is being rapidly gentrified.
After this, I expected more of a twist and was thinking Tunis.
January 11, 2026 at 6:41 PM
After this, I expected more of a twist and was thinking Tunis.