Posted in Automobiles, Life, Science and Technology, Technology, Travel, Uncategorized on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
So, on our recent tour of colleges in the Baltimore-Virginia-Washington, DC-New York-New Jersey areas we rented a car from Budget. One of the options was the Where2 GPS for another $48 for the week.
What a bargain.
On our trip, rather than struggling with paper maps, we used the Garmin StreetPilot C550-based Where2 GPS. An absolute God-send. [...]
Posted in Automobiles, Life, Music, Travel, Uncategorized on April 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
No college visits today. It’s time to go home. Our companion (well, one of our companions, but more about that later) was a 2008 Ford Fusion SEL like the one pictured above. Acquired temporarily through Budget Rent-A-Car, the Ford Fusion was a worthy mount for our tour of schools in the Washington, DC-Baltimore-Virginia and New [...]
Posted in Life, Travel, Uncategorized on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
The final day of the college tour with our oldest daughter. It’s been a long week, but a worthwhile and interesting experience. Our last visit was to Columbia University, located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Our trip in from New Jersey was uneventful, but we arrived just barely in time. Columbia seemed in [...]
Posted in Life, Travel, Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
College tour fatigue is beginning to set in. We got to Seton Hall University almost an hour before the information session was scheduled to start. At this point, enrollment numbers, acceptance and admission rates, student-faculty ratios, mean SAT scores, campus housing, security, and activity information is beginning to all blur together. We’ve both been taking [...]
Posted in Food, Food and Drink, Life, Travel, Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Foregoing the delights of the Waffle House we continued our tour Tuesday with a visit to the University of Mary Washington. Like Johns Hopkins the day before, UMW has a lush green campus and is covered with brick colonnaded buildings (with a few examples of more modern institutional architecture thrown in, like other schools, often not [...]
Posted in Life, Motorcycles, Travel, Writing on February 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Gotta go. Gotta be on the move. I can’t take this winter much longer, but it really doesn’t give me any choice.
Last year I was able to ride in every month except January - and that was only because I decided I had too much to do around the house on a rare January thaw [...]
Posted in Hobbies, Life, News, News and Politics, Photography, Travel on October 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s been an unusually warm fall here in southern Maine. Fortunately, we have not had to endure the scorching weather and deadly wildfires that have recently plagued southern California. But this month is the sixtieth anniversary of the 1947 forest fires in Maine that burned over 200,000 acres and left sixteen people dead. Still, though it [...]
Posted in Books, Hobbies, Life, Photography, Travel on October 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Every year I attend the ICMA conference I experience the same arc of thoughts from “I wouldn’t mind traveling more for business” to “Oh, God, I can’t wait to get home” and “I couldn’t deal with this on a regular basis.” No doubt the swelling ranks of travelers and the increasingly dysfunctional airline system (not [...]
Posted in Hobbies, Life, Music, Photography, Travel on October 8, 2007 | No Comments »
Airline delays have been much in the news in recent months. I didn’t pay too much attention since I don’t do a lot of travelling, by air or otherwise. Getting to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from Portland, Maine last Friday (and Saturday, if that gives you any indication) made me a little more sympathetic, however. I finally [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Life, Music, Travel on September 29, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Only a few days left before I head for Pittsburgh and the 2007 International City/County Management Association Conference. The conference program, and location, varies from year to year. In addition to the educational programs, which are often very good, there are opportunities - both formal and informal - to learn a bit about the host city (and county) [...]
