Travel notes, Boston to State College, July 2005
[this entry has been sitting in my editor a few days; apologies for the late posting]
Yesterday afternoon, Terri whisked me away from work early, and we hit the road to State College, Pennsylvania. We are spending a few days here for Arts Fest and to throw a baby shower for Terri’s sister Kim.
We didn’t leave as early as we hoped (of course), but we still just beat the worst of rush hour, and ended up hungry just before Hartford at about 5:30. So we stopped at a past trip favorite, Rein’s Deli. It’s not an ideal stop for travelling because it’s not all that fast, but the food is quite good, and we were sort of in the mood. At some point we have to stop there when it’s somehow feasible for me to get a bloody mary. We got there just as the early bird crowd was heading out.
When we hit Scranton, Terri offered me either a game, a story, or a conversation. I chose a story, and got one about Cosmo the Policeduck, his wife Gertie, and his children, Ludlow and Celeste. It was extremely charming. Vintage Terri.
We made it to State College just after midnight, so we actually made decent time, despite the lengthy dinner break.
July 18th, 2005 at 7:10 am
Damn. I was in State College, too.
July 18th, 2005 at 8:49 am
Ah, crap. We really kind of biffed it on the seeing people front this time. We were pretty disorganized about the trip in general, most of our organizational efforts going into preparing for Kim’s shower. Next time we’ll be in town, we’ll make it a bigger point to give early warning.
However, I did see you in your 6th grade class picture.