Saturday, August 11, ’12
H-82 Lexington L H 78 L 59 H H 69 L 52 M H 66 L 50
L-60 C H 98 L 77
Bear update: The Bear says We Were Almost Fogged Out By The Pirates Party. TR says, “We had to leave the state.” Moose say, “You’re always stateless, Bear!” Lou says we will have a Flee The States Party. We will serve Pennsylvania Dutch Foods.
We woke up to sun. Will it last? It lasted, and the temperature in Lexington climbed to 82. At least it didn’t rain. There was no fog anywhere.
Tucson 106/79 Brooklyn 82/73 T-STORMS
We woke up at 7;30AM. We got dressed and went to breakfast at the Perkins Restaurant, which delayed getting out of there. We checked out of room 123 at 10:45AM. Our first pit stop was at Stephens City to get gas. at Exxon. We were down to a quarter of a tank. Gary didn’t get gas yesterday. We also got $200.00 at the ATM. The second pit stop was at exit 283 Woodstock at an Exxon. The third pit stop was at the McDonalds at New Market. We ate lunch there even though their lemonade machine was broken. As we came into the parking lot we saw the New Market Battlefield. I snapped a photo. The fourth pit stop was almost at the Ramada in Harrisonburg, but we remembered there was no McDonalds nearby. We stopped instead at the rest area right after exit 235. The dog liked all the grass. I took a movie. We drove past exit 221, the exit for Richmond and said boo to NLRG who never returned Gary’s phone calls. Otherwise we would have been going there. The fifth pit stop was at 213A. It was a Pilot Travel Center, the first we’ve seen since June. I remember buying postcards there before. This time we bought Magnum Classic ice cream bars. The dog found more grass and shade under trees. Finally we pulled off the road for the day at exit 195, right before Lexington. Gary says this is “the head of the Valley”. We sighted the HOJO’s on top of the hill. It reminds me of Dandridge, TN in that respect. You’ve got a view, but I don’t like it. It has odd historic decorations in the lobby near the breakfast room of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, their horses, an Indian, and a colonial. The beds weren’t made. I had a run in with the front desk. We had the make the beds ourselves. All I see in the way of restaurants is an Aunt Sarah’s Pancake House at the bottom of the hill. Supposedly the rest are a couple of miles away to the left. We went to dinner at Ruby Tuesday’s, four miles down the interstate. We took out ribs and rice for the dog. Kenny went grocery shopping.
It’s The Dumb Roads, Stupid! 8/11/12
We drove east from Tucson on a long car trip. The biggest frustration we ran into was one we would never have predicted — the roads. In Pennsylvania they had an archaic highway system — the PA Turnpike with toll plaza that dictated when you could get off the road. Then all over the South Hills of Pittsburgh they were digging up the roads to put in new gas lines. It caused such a diversion of traffic you wouldn’t believe it. We got lost multiple times. At the end we just wanted to escape. Ditto South Jersey. They had the most confused road system imaginable. You’d see a business on the opposite side of the street. But you couldn’t reach it by driving across the street. You had to drive two streets down and one street over and come back instead. Again we just wanted to get out of the crazy place.
It’s the open road for us.
Dog/Cat Report:
Sabaka sizes up rest areas as we are approaching them. I think he’s looking for grass. If he sees something that pleases him, such as the rest area just after exit 235, we hear from him. He makes lots of noise and acts excited. Otherwise, he’s silent. Then he tries to roll in the grass. It’s hard to get him away from it.
When we stopped at the rest area with all the grass after exit 235 even Putlitz wanted to get out. We had to tell him it wasn’t a “cathof”. He expects to get out just like the dog. Later I gave him a piece of pork from the dog’s ribs at Ruby Tuesday’s.
Today was a day without McDonalds strawberry lemonade!
I Can Hear Those Hamburg Residents Screaming 8/11/12
I checked the QM2 website at 10:20PM on Saturday, August 11. That would be 4:20AM in Hamburg, Sunday, August 12. That’s the time the crazies start screaming as the ship enters the harbor. I begin to make out harbor lights and the ship decked out like a Christmas tree. Why does Hamburg behave like that? If you haven’t experienced it yourself you’d never believe how unbelievable it is to be woken from a sound sleep by the ship blowing its whistle, lights flashing, and Hamburg citizens sounding like a crowd shouting for the home team at that hour of the morning. This happened to us in the wee hours of July 15, the last time QM2 entered Hamburg.
Still no contract . . .
What next?
H-82 Lexington L H 78 L 59 H H 69 L 52 M H 66 L 50
L-60 C H 98 L 77
Bear update: The Bear says We Were Almost Fogged Out By The Pirates Party. TR says, “We had to leave the state.” Moose say, “You’re always stateless, Bear!” Lou says we will have a Flee The States Party. We will serve Pennsylvania Dutch Foods.
We woke up to sun. Will it last? It lasted, and the temperature in Lexington climbed to 82. At least it didn’t rain. There was no fog anywhere.
Tucson 106/79 Brooklyn 82/73 T-STORMS
We woke up at 7;30AM. We got dressed and went to breakfast at the Perkins Restaurant, which delayed getting out of there. We checked out of room 123 at 10:45AM. Our first pit stop was at Stephens City to get gas. at Exxon. We were down to a quarter of a tank. Gary didn’t get gas yesterday. We also got $200.00 at the ATM. The second pit stop was at exit 283 Woodstock at an Exxon. The third pit stop was at the McDonalds at New Market. We ate lunch there even though their lemonade machine was broken. As we came into the parking lot we saw the New Market Battlefield. I snapped a photo. The fourth pit stop was almost at the Ramada in Harrisonburg, but we remembered there was no McDonalds nearby. We stopped instead at the rest area right after exit 235. The dog liked all the grass. I took a movie. We drove past exit 221, the exit for Richmond and said boo to NLRG who never returned Gary’s phone calls. Otherwise we would have been going there. The fifth pit stop was at 213A. It was a Pilot Travel Center, the first we’ve seen since June. I remember buying postcards there before. This time we bought Magnum Classic ice cream bars. The dog found more grass and shade under trees. Finally we pulled off the road for the day at exit 195, right before Lexington. Gary says this is “the head of the Valley”. We sighted the HOJO’s on top of the hill. It reminds me of Dandridge, TN in that respect. You’ve got a view, but I don’t like it. It has odd historic decorations in the lobby near the breakfast room of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, their horses, an Indian, and a colonial. The beds weren’t made. I had a run in with the front desk. We had the make the beds ourselves. All I see in the way of restaurants is an Aunt Sarah’s Pancake House at the bottom of the hill. Supposedly the rest are a couple of miles away to the left. We went to dinner at Ruby Tuesday’s, four miles down the interstate. We took out ribs and rice for the dog. Kenny went grocery shopping.
It’s The Dumb Roads, Stupid! 8/11/12
We drove east from Tucson on a long car trip. The biggest frustration we ran into was one we would never have predicted — the roads. In Pennsylvania they had an archaic highway system — the PA Turnpike with toll plaza that dictated when you could get off the road. Then all over the South Hills of Pittsburgh they were digging up the roads to put in new gas lines. It caused such a diversion of traffic you wouldn’t believe it. We got lost multiple times. At the end we just wanted to escape. Ditto South Jersey. They had the most confused road system imaginable. You’d see a business on the opposite side of the street. But you couldn’t reach it by driving across the street. You had to drive two streets down and one street over and come back instead. Again we just wanted to get out of the crazy place.
It’s the open road for us.
Dog/Cat Report:
Sabaka sizes up rest areas as we are approaching them. I think he’s looking for grass. If he sees something that pleases him, such as the rest area just after exit 235, we hear from him. He makes lots of noise and acts excited. Otherwise, he’s silent. Then he tries to roll in the grass. It’s hard to get him away from it.
When we stopped at the rest area with all the grass after exit 235 even Putlitz wanted to get out. We had to tell him it wasn’t a “cathof”. He expects to get out just like the dog. Later I gave him a piece of pork from the dog’s ribs at Ruby Tuesday’s.
Today was a day without McDonalds strawberry lemonade!
I Can Hear Those Hamburg Residents Screaming 8/11/12
I checked the QM2 website at 10:20PM on Saturday, August 11. That would be 4:20AM in Hamburg, Sunday, August 12. That’s the time the crazies start screaming as the ship enters the harbor. I begin to make out harbor lights and the ship decked out like a Christmas tree. Why does Hamburg behave like that? If you haven’t experienced it yourself you’d never believe how unbelievable it is to be woken from a sound sleep by the ship blowing its whistle, lights flashing, and Hamburg citizens sounding like a crowd shouting for the home team at that hour of the morning. This happened to us in the wee hours of July 15, the last time QM2 entered Hamburg.
Still no contract . . .
What next?
Gary’s $1400.00 in Earnings:
Wells Fargo Mortgage Fidelity Checking $751.11
Tucson Water Fidelity Checking $83.08
Tucson Electric Fidelity Checking $68.45
Geico Fidelity Checking $51.32
Amazon.com: New Balance women’s walking shoes Prime Fidelity Checking $90.62
RMS Queen Mary: The World’s Favorite Liner Fidelity Checking $81.33
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Bills TOT: $1125.91
Saturday, August 11, ’12
1)Perkins Restaurant Winchester breakfast Fidelity Checking $38.39
2)Handy Mart Stephens City gas cash $40.00
3)McDonalds New Market lunch Fidelity Checking $18.76
4)McDonalds New Market lunch Fidelity Checking $2.20
5)Pilot Staunton Magnum bars Fidelity Checking $10.12
6)HOJO’s Lexington room 107 cash $102.07
7)Ruby Tuesdays Lexington dinner Fidelity Checking $74.58
8)laundry $3.00
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TOT: $289.14
Pilot gas Kenny $23.99
Walmart supplies Kenny $12.63