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
I’ve never done a “Wordless Wednesday” before, but I thought we’d have a good time with these pictures Dave and I took of Amtrak’s 40th Anniversary exhibit train at the Strasburg Railroad in June, pulled by a P40 locomotive. Considering these to decorate Jacob’s room, since he’s a fan of Amtrak.
We had our truck about 14 months before learning about the “Average Fuel” setting that ties to the trip odometer. Yep…that’s the total number of miles driven on our two-week road trip in the lower right. And, as an added bonus, we have the average mileage. That’ll come in handy for some additional calculations. Let’s … Read more
I hadn’t planned to do this week’s Friday Fill-in since we’re on vacation, but here I am sitting with Dave and the kids at a model railroaders’ auction in Harrisburg with some time to kill, so I thought I’d have a little fun! Besides, I’m excited to share my Amazing Race plans to conquer the … Read more
This is a test post, just trying to iron out a few kinks as I get that Facebook page running. I’m trying out a couple of different RSS-feed capabilities, and whoever’s is fastest with transferring posts from Blogger to Facebook wins 🙂
At the risk of sounding megalomaniacal, this evening I started a Facebook page expressly for this blog. I didn’t mean to, it just sort of happened…and while on vacation, at that! Facebook made some changes over the past few months about how a “Group” or “Fan Page” is used and managed…in addition, RSS feeds into … Read more
Imagine my delight when I saw N-Scale Magazine sitting in a magazine rack yesterday at the Strasburg Station train store in Lancaster, PA. And here’s Dave’s super-awesome front cover picture, and inside is his feature article! I wish I could share the whole article here with you, but from our vacation we can’t do it … Read more
Happy Belated Father’s Day to any of my Dad readers! We were happy to get to spend time with Dave’s Dad early in the day at Dave’s family reunion in Pennsylvania, then we drove down to my parents’ house in West Virginia in time for dinner with my Dad. Earlier in the week GeekMom solicited … Read more
I’m tickled about two things about this week’s Friday Fill-in: a.) I’m typing this while we’re cruising up I-65 between Montgomery and Birmingham, AL. I schedule it to post on Fridays, but I usually write these up on Thursdays as soon as “Wifey’s” questions come in. We got one of those nifty Verizon 4G modems … Read more
We learned this already on our drive to Orlando last weekend. Navarre, Florida to Orlando is about 6 hours worth of driving. We were able to get from Raleigh, NC to Washington, D.C. in less time. But when we started doing our driving planning for our annual June trip to central PA for Dave’s family … Read more