Wednesday, Jan 25…
Sound
the trumpets and break out the champagne – I
am writing about today!!! (Fortunately, Greg was busy w/ automotive errands
and helping his friend install a windshield, so I spent nearly all my time
catching up. It feels really good.)
The only other item worth mentioning might be that we finally had dinner at the Elks Club. (We’d been told that a retired
chef had recently been hired and the food was actually GOOD.) Again, we shared
the plate of ribs - plenty for both of us, meat literally falling off the bones
and doused in decent sauce. Teens served, and the cocktail waitress apparently
never saw us, so Greg had to manage w/o wine (and me w/o carbonation), but for
$12 we were quite happy.
(This
particular Elks Club always has cars
in the parking lot, and the place was packed tonight. I’m sure they served at
least a couple hundred meals.)
BlogThoughts… I haven’t posted any of these for a while,
so it’s going to be a rather random assortment of ideas.
· ---We’ve
stumbled across Route 66 at least twice – in Barstow and yesterday in Kingman.
Neither day did I think to take a picture, but it is fun to see places identified
with that era of travel. Here are a couple relevant pics, stolen from the
internet:
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| Barstow |
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| Kingman |
·- ---When we pulled
into the Visitors Center in DV, a very shiny bus was unloading Japanese
tourists. People kid about these folks being everywhere with their cameras, and
I’ve never given it much thought, but lately I have become more aware of their
ubiquity. I remember seeing large groups a couple times when we spent that week
in the Canadian Rockies last September. I
have no issues with it; I guess I’m just a little surprised at how many/how
often they travel to the U.S.
---Regarding that
huge windstorm last Sunday night... After I knew Greg wasn’t really worried, I
found myself smiling b/c one of my concerns had been whether I should get some
sort of clothing on “now” rather than after the MH blew over.
Finally, here's the only picture I took today.
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| Sunset Minstrels (metal sculptures) |
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Love the Minstrels picture! When I think of Route 66, all I can think of is Cars. Cool to see a couple of pictures of the non-animated thing. :)
ReplyDeleteI will be very glad when I am reading today. I'm exactly three months behind now. :) But I really do want to read it all, so I'm going to make this happen - one way or another. It makes me miss you guys a lot more! I hope we can get this blog saved as a record. It's awesome, and we wouldn't want to lose track of it years down the road.