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To me, the airport's a wind-up
toy. If you look at it like a gigantic wheel, it curves around an
inner garage which itself encircles (and this isn't on any map)
a taxicab overflow parking lot. From there you walk through a labyrinth
of concrete pillars marked E20 and E21 (in Area E (blue) Level 1)
to a moving sidewalk taking you to the airport elevator, Level G.
You go up to Level 1 (Arrivals / Baggage Claim) and get your mail
at the U.S. Post Office at Column C-116. Then you proceed to United
Claim Area 6 where the Employees' Cafeteria is tucked away, have
some Raisin Bran & Corn Flakes, then continue to an escalator
at C-102 and go up to Level 2 (Departures / Ticketing). Marching
briskly along, past lines of people moving through various security
protocols, you cross through a covered bridge via a moving sidewalk
into the International Terminal, where Level 2 has become ground-level
Arrivals! From here, you take an escalator up to Level 3 (Departures),
buy a newspaper and cup of coffee, take an escalator to Level 4
and ride the 2-car AirTrain Red Line to Terminal 1, descend a staircase
into the parking garage Level 5 (because the bridge into the terminal
hasn't been built or even begun), take an elevator to Level 1, a
moving sidewalk to what has become Level B, go up to Level 2 (Departures
/ Tickets) to a Burger King (actually hidden inside another cafeteria)
and buy a breakfast sandwich (because by this time you're hungry
again), then retrace your most recent path, eventually emerging
from a moving sidewalk tunnel into the garage (Area B (orange) Level
1) and return through a labyrinth of concrete pillars marked B8
and B9 to the taxicab overflow parking lot (in the center, not on
any map), winding it all up.
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