I’m back!

Itenerary:

• York, PA (one night)


• Albion, NY (the in-laws)


• Dover, NH (stayed in the Silver Street Inn B&B – wonderful)


• Salem / Boston / Cambridge (daytrip)


• Newark, DE (for a night)


• Woodbridge, VA (for IKEA, just passing through)


• Home again!

Lessons learned:

• New York City drivers will use any asphalt available to drive on (evidence: driving the I-95 Cross Bronx Expwy to the George Washington Bridge — passing on the hard shoulder was common)


• Renaissance Festivals can be fun. Huzzah!


• No matter how hard I try, or how much I lead in the early hands, my mother-in-law will still beat me in rummy.


• New Hampshire is pretty cool. Live Free or DIE!


• IKEA is so bloody big. The whole time I was there, I was amusing myself with that scene from Fight Club running through my head.


• Sometimes, little unassuming motels aren’t so bad.


• It’s a really small world. Upon examining my driver’s license, the night watchman — from India, I think — at one of the little motels we stayed in indicated that his brother-in-law was practicing medicine in Raleigh. In fact, it turns out that he’s my doctor.


• Pictures rule. I have some. Maybe one day I’ll put them up.

Unrelatedly: I am having digital camera envy, and I really wish Foveon would get its big megapixel X3 sensors into a Canon or Nikon product soon.

It’s good to be home again. Now, off to work paid job hunting.