Oh, look, it’s been another…month almost. At the rate I update this thing, you’d be better off watching grass grow. But I have been on adventures! They just require photo-editing, and when you work a computer-based job 40 hours a week, you’re just a lot less interested in doing more of the same in your [...]
Also tagged new england, winterThis was August 10-16, a couple co-workers and I got in for dinner on the 13th and left before lunch on the 16th. It was approximately 6 hours, and one of my co-workers did the whole drive by himself. We didn’t even stop to go to the bathroom! When you enter the city via the [...]
Also tagged arkansas, memphis, museum, music, photographs, tennesseeGreetings from route 70 in Ohio! A tractor trailer jack-knifed in the summer storm, and now 90 minutes (and counting!) of my life have been spent on this road. The rain was pretty intense, and I learned that in Ohio (and maybe other places) you put your hazards lights on in harsh rain when you [...]
Also tagged ohio, weatherDay two was a day of driving. We left Pittsburgh by 10, just as people were coming into the city decked out in green and shamrocks for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The alcohol and green had both started flowing the night previous (or earlier) but by Saturday when we left it was in full [...]
Also tagged chicago, illinois, indiana, midwest, ohio, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, universityDay one of driving wasn’t too bad. We left during drizzle and wound up driving in the highway equivalent of a bathtub fight with tractor trailers standing in for the sumo wrestlers. But the Pennsylvania Turnpike is a relatively straightforward road to drive so even with limited water-in-the-eye vision it was an easy drive. Unfortunately, [...]
Also tagged pennsylvania, pittsburgh, university, weather