Travel
I will leave for about a week in NC tomorrow morning, and I'm not sure how I can sleep tonight. I get so anxious before a trip although this hasn't been too bad, maybe because it is such a short trip. I have the car about half packed, with the rest of the stuff ready to go in the morning.
I'm excited that my cousin Denise, along with her dog Napoleon, will be meeting me on Saturday and stay through Sunday evening. I'm looking forward to seeing her again - the last time was back in 2006, and I will try to put her to work helping me get the storage contents ready to ship. I have a key to the lock on the unit, but I'm not sure if the key I have is the right one to that lock - I'll find out when I get there and hopefully I can get a locksmith to come and cut the lock if I can't open it.
Lady knows something is up and she is ready for whatever it is. I just hope we have some decent weather, though it's likely we'll run into rain along the way. I hope to get some pictures, but haven't had much luck this trip with taking good pictures.
The visit with the Doc this morning didn't materialize. I'm not sure what happened because I definitely wrote 9 am on July 7 in my calendar, but he wasn't there today. He comes over from Long Island one day every other week, and this was an off week. I will try to reschedule when I get back from Carolina and before I start the long trip back to NY.
I will be somewhere in Virginia tomorrow night, so I'll sign off from New York until then.
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Travel
The road is calling me
I will leave for about a week in NC tomorrow morning, and I'm not sure how I can sleep tonight. I get so anxious before a trip although this hasn't been too bad, maybe because it is such a short trip. I have the car about half packed, with the rest of the stuff ready to go in the morning.
I'm excited that my cousin Denise, along with her dog Napoleon, will be meeting me on Saturday and stay through Sunday evening. I'm looking forward to seeing her again - the last time was back in 2006, and I will try to put her to work helping me get the storage contents ready to ship. I have a key to the lock on the unit, but I'm not sure if the key I have is the right one to that lock - I'll find out when I get there and hopefully I can get a locksmith to come and cut the lock if I can't open it.
Lady knows something is up and she is ready for whatever it is. I just hope we have some decent weather, though it's likely we'll run into rain along the way. I hope to get some pictures, but haven't had much luck this trip with taking good pictures.
The visit with the Doc this morning didn't materialize. I'm not sure what happened because I definitely wrote 9 am on July 7 in my calendar, but he wasn't there today. He comes over from Long Island one day every other week, and this was an off week. I will try to reschedule when I get back from Carolina and before I start the long trip back to NY.
I will be somewhere in Virginia tomorrow night, so I'll sign off from New York until then.
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Many of our regular readers will remember last year when we entered a contest to win a trip to Australia. Due to a lot of effort from our readers, we came in first in our category. But that was not enough to lock in the win. Coincidentally, the person...
- It's Catching Up With Me
I was supposed to pick up my granddaughter and be at REI when they open to look for a backpack. She would rather take that to Europe next week than regular luggage. Instead she had to work early, so I went back and crawled into bed, fully clothed! I slept...
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I left the motel early this morning, like at 6:30 a.m.. I wanted to get at that lock early so I would have time to do something about it if the key didn't fit. Well, didn't fit! I quickly called "my" locksmith here in the Asheville area, Steve...
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I thought today was going fairly well - Donald and Jeannie helped me move my furniture and the boxes I had packed into my truck and over the few blocks to the storage unit. When we got the first load upstairs to the unit, we found that the manager hadn't...
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One more wake-up and then Ara and I are on the way to camping for a week at Sly Park in the foothills of the Sierra. Today was the gathering-of-the-food day, and started with an early morning trip with Jeannie and Ara to the Farmers' Market in downtown...