Ironbutt 57: Roger that: we left there this morning, on a beautiful day. Whenever thunderstorms are in the area (over land), the airlines's passengers might as well assume that most flights have major delays or could get canceled. Don't walk around downtown EWR at night! A policemen told a few of our crewmembers to ride in his squad car back to their hotel.
Outside of Newark, New Jersey has many attactive sections, i.e. along with other towns, Morristown is a really nice one, and the countryside appears to have some large sections of forest with undeveloped lakes etc, at least from flying vectors at 5,000'.