Comfort Inn Chester

... the old ones. There is a sport complex that has walls covered with grass, presumably as a green initiative.

I walked in and around Notre Dame. Access if free unless you want to climb up to the top and see the view. They have signs indicating that wireless access is free on the grounds, which I thought was funny, but didn’t have time to stop and use. There’s probably no point in trying to describe all of the places where we went ...

... man, who was looking right back at my.

This is when the alarm bells started going off in my head. He just made me uneasy, the way he was staring at me. He asked wh**e I had come from and I answ**ed "Washington DC". The look of hatred in his eyes startled me, and he spat "you're full of **** if you're from DC". I hastened to clarify that I wasn't, in fact, from th**e, but I had only been visiting. This was when I knew he was some ...

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Our end cost, all included (including souveniers)for 3 people for 15 days was $8,700.

The plane fair from Richmond to TelAviv was $1,050 per person taxes and fee included. This was after lots of daily checking and buying tickets at almost their low point about 10 wweks out from the trip. I also discovered that, at least with US AIR flights on TH, F, SA were slightly more expensive. By 3 weeks away ...

Well we started off right, but we hit lots of traffic on Rt. 95 heading into Mt.Vernon and Richmond. Made a historic pit stop at Mt. Vernon. Pretty impressive place. I almost embarrassed Kristi and had us kicked out for rubbing my face on General Washington's pillow. They take that stuff very seriously nowadays.

Then off to Richmond where we met Ryan and Kelly. First night...hotel...not bad.
We hit ...

Sunday July 26, 2009

Luba and I slept in until about 830am. Bevil and Stewart were, of course, up, dressed and waiting for us. Bevil and Stewart took us to O'Doul’s for breakfast and then afterwards took us to visit the family plot at the Hollywood Cemetery. It was great to see that Luba was actually interested to see where my father and family were buried. After a short ride through Richmond we headed back to the ...

The trip from Indianapolis, IN through KY and WVA was hectic and nothing new to see except for a quick tour of Louisville, KY.

The roads were really bad and conjested from Indianapolis on. We overnighted in Louisville and took a quick, err, slow tour on the horse cart around the downtown area. Not a bad city, except for ...

... eine stadt als überdimensionales freilichtmuseum.

das leben der ersten siedler wird in den gut erhaltenen straßenzügen quasi lebendig.

am abend weiterfahrt nach richmond. das hört sich jetzt insgesamt nicht nach so viel aus aber glaubt mir: es ist mehr als genug für einen tag!

... a memorable one with Matty demonstrating blinking technology, and Terry attempting to void his warranty: Some of the sunset on the way to the Outer Banks (I completely forgot to take pictures while I was down there): And one of Frances on today's frantic search for stuffses:

... my image of all historical figures talking like pirates might be misguided, but my elementary school textbooks can't compete with Johnny Depp and his roguish charisma.

It was a fun couple of weeks though, and I need time like that with my mom to supplement our primary communication of Skype calls from 10,000 miles away. From there, it was off to NYC to see the city sans my previous fog of jet-lag and incessant vomiting. Sans. Who talks like that?

... and chatted and had a glass of wine and shared family tree information and generally had a wonderful time. I find he (they) think very much the way I do. They are infinitely courteous and we took to each other as if we had known each other for years. We ate at a local restaurant (can't recall name) and I had tilapia and a local specialty known as hush puppies (an American term for small cornmeal breads that are deep fried in a spherical or oblong shape. The ...