We took a long weekend and headed up to Atlanta. It’s about a 5.5 hour drive with no stops, plus we have a time zone change. We had nice seats at a Sunday afternoon Atlanta Braves game, and we booked a hotel room at a Comfort Inn right next to Turner Field, so we didn’t … Read more
Easter 2011. I’ve gotta admit it — my boys travel VERY VERY VERY well. From Jacob and the Amtrak Auto Train to see family at 9 months old, to Timmy and a trip up to North Carolina to find a new house at 4 months old, our boys have learned that long automobile trips are … Read more
This is our just-finished-packing-on-the-first-warm-day-of-our-campout-pooped picture. Meet Megan, who was my college roommate for my last two years at PSU. She has a son about Jacob’s age. Every couple of years we try to get together to hang out. We aren’t formal about it or anything, but in recent years we’ve been able to take turns … Read more
This week we have friends from North Carolina visiting: Maryann (AKA Fotomom), Joey and Johnny. Jacob and Joey were in the same preschool from 2005-2008 and were two peas in a pod, while Timmy and Johnny were best buddies as the respective little brothers. We took dozens of great road trips together! Joey and Johnny … Read more
This is what much of my drive up I-59 and I-81 looked like last month. If you’re unfamiliar with the southeastern U.S., you might have never seen this. Having lived in North Carolina for 3 years, there were areas where we came to expect it. So…what is kudzu? You can read the details, from the … Read more
This is a test to see if my e-mail customers are getting my posts. Meanwhile enjoy this picture of the boys shoveling coal at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania:
Yes, these posts are hideously out of order, but I’m writing them in the order of ease of collecting my thoughts. Sorry about that 🙂 Maybe I’ll force the dates around some when I’m all done. We started out in Greenville, SC on the last day of our road trip. It was about 2 1/2 … Read more
Last weekend the boys and I bid farewell to Dave in Harrisburg headed up to the Stratton, Vermont area for some camping with my dear friend (and former college roommate) Megan and her son Aidan. Some mother/son bonding time was had by all 🙂 We had a great time catching up — we last saw … Read more
We had an invitation up to visit a famous (in N-scale model railroading circles) basement model railroad in Lewistown, PA, while we were in Hershey for the N-Scale Convention. I asked if we could “swing by” Penn State at least for lunch and some souvenir shopping. Lewistown is about 1/2 hour southeast of Penn State. … Read more
The route we planned from Florida to Pennsylvania took us right across some of the destruction paths from this past spring’s Tornado “Superoutbreak” of April 25-28. On this trip I crossed three of this past spring’s tornado paths, each are discussed below. While part of me as a “weather weenie” finds a fascination in getting to … Read more