Originally Posted by
SFO777
Agree. If you are allowed to board at EWR, you should be good. Getting a boarding pass is easy, getting past the gate dragon is the hard part.

Sounds good - likely will just carry on my bag and not run the risk of it being sent around the world without me

but looking forward to an interesting experience - will be getting a nice night in Guam if the gate dragon isn't pleased with my current routing