NEW LONDON CT - After a quick dash to the nearby grocery store for some aftershave - to replace the nearly-full bottle I left at my aunt’s house on Saturday - it was on to the Albany Rural Cemetery, the final resting place for, among others, former President Chester Arthur and Alexander Hamilton’s sister-in-law Peggy [Schuyler] van Rensselaer ( Read more... )

(8/25) - Breakfast was different as we took it on down to Biscuitville. And while it’s not a theme restaurant along the lines of Justin Timberlake’s …Ville sketches on SNL, it does deliver as advertised ( Read more... )

BURLINGTON NC (8/24) - Fortunately, I awoke today to no further surprises. So after my new (temporary) regimen of pills and eye drops, it was a short drive north to Raleigh ( Read more... )

MEXICO CITY (1/19) - It was back to the Zócalo this morning to pick up the Turibus ticket for the Piramides ( Read more... )

READING PA -- Based on my car's digital display, the oil life was approaching its natural end, so I tried finding a nearby oil-change place, which, on a Saturday, was a fool's errand. In addition, Alice's hoped-for help was, in the end, not successful, so I am now stuck with using the map app on my phone ( Read more... )

VIRGINIA BEACH -- Having reached our northern limit, we turned back south, driving through light drizzle to Atlantic City. To get Chad's required Hard Rock visit, we had to enter the land of The Donald and go to the Taj Mahal. (Playfully enough, we apparently parked in the Taj Garaj ( Read more... )

WILMINGTON -- Our first stop of the day was Ocean City, of which I had heard many tales while in college. Like Atlantic City, the OC has a boardwalk, and we took advantage -- we must've walked about a mile and a half round-trip on a comfortably sunny Wednesday morning ( Read more... )

DEERFIELD BEACH -- The day started nicely enough on Siesta Key at the Sun Garden Café, with the really clever website address, Sol-Food.net. We then we went back to Bradenton to redeem my free vanilla-orange swirl ice cream. (Chad wanted anything, as long as it was chocolate; he got vanilla.) After letting him snap some pictures of the Pirates' ( Read more... )

To tractor-trailer drivers: Do they not teach you how to safely pass vehicles at night ( Read more... )

I've sat in front of the TV for the last two hours, watching "Crashed That Changed Flying."

Am I being fatalistic, or laughing in the face of danger?