Keeping The Windmill Alive - Your Last Trip? – April 2021

Orthodontist appointment.

A quick 48-hour turnaround last weekend from South Central PA to Greater Cleveland and back via the turnpikes. Boring, tiring, and full of fast food traps. Luckily I have adaptive cruise control in my Subaru Legacy which eases the drive somewhat.

Starting from third

This years special trips are when I go to the grocery store. I'm getting about four months between tanks of gasoline!
Mark

got my shot

Back to cold and wet.

I just looked and I now have 12 years 1 week here.
Time does fly.

to get second COVID shot. Ten mile drive that we know like the back of our hands, but the traffic warning is great since part of trip is on highway.

nothing

traffic coming back seemed like pre-pandemic levels here in Bay Area

Wife's work was running a clinic.

Checking on the neighbors.

the County Liquor Store.

No road trips due to lock down in Ontario Canada.

Daycare run

The Veterans Reunion was in Melbourne. It was a lot smaller than it was years ago.

...from the Route 66 trip.

Only a trip of a few miles.

Had to take a personal break to take care of some personal business down In Florida. Flew down on Southwest, rented a car, visited some old friends up along the east coast and flew back home. Thursday night flight down from LaGuardia to Orlando and back Monday night via Nashville. Uneventful, except for a small equipment issue on one of the flights. One of the engine igniters didn't work on the number 2 engine, so when the fuel was switched on, a HUGE plume of white-gray smoke poured out of the engine. I was on a window seat at the back of the plane. I saw that and said "This is gonna be a long night." Thankfully, the engines have two igniters and they are only needed for startup. Barring a mid flight flame out, there was no reason the flight couldn't resume. So after some paperwork we took off. The rest of the night was thankfully uneventful.

Had a good time.

Grocery store.

Yup. Slow week travelwise.

First time for a sit-down, dine-in meal in about a year.
Felt really odd!

nothing

Just to work and back - across a health region boundary, which is a thing now!!

Me2

NJ

the airport to drop off daughter and grandsons. Had a wonderful visit!

Had M/C out.

Green hills already turning to golden brown

Can't wait for the booster shot(s)...lol

Back on the road again from NY to AL

Took the bike for a ride. About half way it started raining.

Picked up some gardening items - not deemed essential items right now so had curbside pickup as I could not enter the store.

No real trips - just errands these days.

Nine more days until we leave on our 5-6 week camping trip. Updated a bunch of POI files. Loaded a bunch of books on my tablet and phone - some for me to read and a couple that we will take turns reading aloud around the campfire some nights. Loaded the next few Longmire audio books for listening to on the road. Today I'll start a bunch of pocket queries to load on my handheld Garmin for Geocaching. (I'll also load them onto the nüvi 760 for info but not for actual location purposes.)

Have to start organizing food soon. Heading to Costco later today to pick up glasses. My wife got new glasses and I got a new pair of prescription sunglasses that are progressive lenses and replaced the single vision (distance) lenses in another pair. Lots going on.

No where.

going to Arkansas for some spring fun.

Hope you enjoy your trip. Keep us posted as all we can do is enjoy where others are going.
Mary

Twice.

Oh joy.

All dressed up and nowhere to go today. I will have something better to post next week.

Errands and appointments only thing this week.

nothing

I can get to each of these two classes from my house.

Going from one class to the next when I have a consecutive schedule gets confusing.

Have a great day!

Yet another trip to the grocery store. I try to get there about 30 minutes before they close. Hardly anyone is there.
Mark

Goodnight...

Goodnight...

nothing

Go shawty!