Category: General

Well, it’s late and I’m whooped, so I’m not going to write much now. I’ll probably add more tomorrow while I’d doing laundry. Today Carrie and I met “half way” in the Uwharrie National Forest. Carrie’s living in Carrboro (the “Berkeley of NC” Carrie says), and telecommuting to her job. She’s working in Human Relations for a large tech company,...

It’s amazing how used to non-smoking environments I am. Today I had dinner at a burger joint with a bar in it, and folks were smoking all over the place. At the bar, at the tables inside, at the tables on the enclosed balcony. Yuck. I guess we’re moving the country a little bit at a time, and I suppose...

Today I got cruise control installed in my car. This will be about the only automatic thing on the car since the windows, door locks, and transmission are manual. But I’m not gonna drive across the country without it 🙂 Tomorrow I get new tires installed…

Last Friday I took a cab from the Wilmington airport to the car dealership to pick up my car. As the meter kept climbing over $20, I started to worry about how far this place really was (I hadn’t thought it was that far). We finally got on the road that dealership is on, and after a few minutes the...

Well, I filled the tank for the fist time (well, actually the second, but the first I can calculate MPG from) tonight. Turns out I’m getting about 32.3 MGP. This was pretty much highway, although some of it goes through towns (rural area, not many interstate type highways), so it’s not complete highway. This was in two sections, Wilmington to...

My first social stop on my trip is with Karen Goldsmith in Fayetteville, NC. Turns out her folks are on their visit the kids in the US trip (they have lived in Israel for the past 13? years), so I get to visit with them as well. We’ve been hanging out today, and made it to a movie (Hot Fuzz,...

Well, the taxi driver got lost on the way, but I made it to the car dealership and there was my nice shiny used car waiting for me. I’ve driven it about 100 miles (to Karen’s house), and it seems to be working well. The car has NO automatic anything, and it’s amazing to be back in the world of...

Well,  I had an hour or so to kill in the Vegas airport, so what else to do but gamble. I only lost $14 in the quarter slot, cha-ching. Then it was off to my gate to hang out and wait. Now I find that my flight has been delayed an hour. That gives me 16 minutes to get to...

Well, first off, fly Oakland whenever you can. No wait at the ticket counter, no wait for the security check point. Just keep walking through 🙂 I got here about four hours early (I finally got all packed), so I had lots of time to kill. I found the Castlemont High School Knight’s Cafe in the airport, it’s run by...

Well, tomorrow I take a plane to North Carolina to get a car, for a physics teaching workshop, and a great road trip back. I’ll be posting here throughout the trip, so stop back by to see what’s up. If you forget the password, it’s the name of my granddaughter !! The photo on the right is after midnight, and...