Moving South

January 8, 2015 – A couple more quiet cold days in Newburgh and we are off again.

We took a new route.  Ignore this boring paragraph since it’s for my information. New York State Thruway to the Garden State Parkway (Exit 14A), to the New Jersey Turnpike (I-95), to US 13 after crossing into Delaware, to US 301 through Maryland.  We stayed on 301 until we intersected I-95 just above Doswell VA and that was a mistake. Next time try US 50 to I-95.  That would bring us much closer to the Washington, D.C. chaos, but we drove 60 miles through lots of traffic lights staying on 301 too long.  Barring delays the interstate would probably be much faster.  Of course timing is everything when near the big cities.

Our new route kept us on the east side of the mountains all the way to Cary NC.  It was a pleasant but cold drive.  We stopped in Doswell and got a motel, since the temperature was expected to be in the high single numbers, and then yesterday had a quick 200 mile drive to Connie’s.  I think this is the first time driving in or out of the Raleigh-Durham area that we didn’t get lost.  Hooray for us!

It’s all good!

 

 

 

What are We Doing?

January 5, 2015 – Checked the weather for heading south and it wasn’t so good.  So we decided to hang around here for another couple of days.  A little reading, a little television, a nice dinner at home.  I discovered evidence of our hitchhiker from home…more mouse dropping in the Trek’s cooking cupboard.  Grrrr!

It’s all good!

Adventures in the Fog

January 4, 2015 – When living in Northern Maine, one does forget all the fun things available in the real world. We awoke to a very foggy day after a night of rain.  After another yummy breakfast at a local diner and a visit to Adams, an indoor farmers market-like super store to walk off the breakfast, the four of us headed west 30 miles to Pennsylvania for a cigarette run, $44 a carton in PA vs. $110 in New York. It would have been a beautiful drive except for the fog, not enough to slow traffic but enough so we couldn’t see the scenery.

Back at the house for a rest and then out to dinner at a steakhouse, Schlesinger’s. This place has a cigar bar where you can still have a drink and a smoke inside. How do they do that? They have a walk-in humidor where tobacco products are sold and consequently were grandfathered to continue business as usual after the no smoking laws were enacted. So we had a drink and a smoke in the bar before moving to the non-smoking restaurant. Dinner was excellent, really fine salads, sides, and steaks. We can’t keep up with all this good eating and drinking or we’ll not be able to get in and out of Trek.

Had to be back home to watch the first episode of the season of “Downton Abbey”.

It’s all good!

Easy Day

January 3, 2015 – A very laid back day.  After a great breakfast we all bundled up for a walking tour of the school campus.  About half way through, the snow started to fall so it was back home for an afternoon of movies and new (to us) TV shows.  Checked out “Rake” and “Doc Martin” for future treadmill walking and thoroughly enjoyed the French film, “Intouchables”.  The weather didn’t improve so we dined in on our favorite clam spaghetti dinner and chatted the evening away.

It’s all good!