Working backwards ...
I realized my last post never made it to the blog. I was having trouble sending and clearly more trouble than I thought!
So.... Phoenix with family was fun. I even heard a story I have not heard before! It seems Russell's brother Jeff at 5 or got his arm caught in the wringer of the washer which was in the basement of his grandparents home in Detroit ( he claims not to know how this happened - stop it, he clearly stuck his arm in it). He convinced cousin Steve who was younger that the washer attacked him. Steve, we discovered, believed this for years and might still be seeking therapy to come to terms with this.
Sedona was beautiful and watching the sunset from the airport sipping our wine with many others a good moment.
Santa Fe is another fun spot to visit. Just a great feel to it.
Western TX - THERE IS NOTHING THERE -except those sand dunes I couldn't remember the location of - this is desolate country folks. Don't go.
San Antonio riverwalk is just as pictured and fun to walk but the rest of San Antonio not so nice.
Austin is another fun city. Home to the University of Texas, the main street - 6th Street - is one of the liveliest streets on a Saturday night I've ever seen. It's all about the bars but each one has live music, the street is closed to traffic and we had a great time at a piano bar singing along. We know we were in Tx however when everyone knew the words to the country songs that not only did we not know the words to but we had never ever heard of them. And you haven't lived till on the day TX beats ARK something like 53-7 they break out into the The Eyes of Texas are Upon You. And I just saw TX is #1 in the polls.
Houston and Galveston were cut out out of the itinerary because of the hurricanes. The poor people who lived there were just being allowed back. There were a number of hurricane victims staying at our hotel in San Antonio and if we had any thoughts of going, the newspaper reports of the rats and snakes ended it.
Heaven! That is what 7 hot, sunny days were on the Alabama and Florida panhandle gulf coasts were. The beaches are pristine. Fine, white sand, warm water, my chair and a book.
Nan and Bill Byerts, friends who lived in Rochester for a number of years and now residents of Atlanta, housed, fed and acted as incredible tour guides for 3 days. Does anyone know what a cyclorama is? I didn't but now do after seeing one on the Civil War. We both loved it and to our delight - all right, my delight - we discovered Gettysburg has one now and can't wait to see it. The Byerts also serve mucho good wine!
Highlight of the trip - having lunch with a friend and he telling us as soon as we sat down to lunch in Atlanta - at a place that had the best fried chicken ever - "Well, you were right about Bush . I'm voting for Obama." Moments like that are not filled with I told you so's but rather relief that there is one more vote for him. As Sarah Silverman stated so aptly in "The Great Schlep" - "people have to vote for Obama to save the US from being the assholes of the world" -and if you haven't seen that video do it, doesn't matter whether you are blue or red - it's very funny.
Savannah, Charleston and Myrtle Beach were kind of rainy and gray but we've had such good weather this whole trip we could not complain. Tomorrow will be a beach day. Yay. And we love Charleston. What a spectacular city. This is at least our third trip there and it is better every time. Savannah is also charming. Want to go back to both.
Next stop Asheville, NC and then to Nashville, Indianapolis to visit Nick, Pittsburgh, Gettys burg or Hershey to visit a friend and then 2 weeks split between NY and Rochester. We will have about 10 days between Veteran's Day and Turkey Day - we will celebrate in NY city (with Aunt Renee's strawberry jello mold, a tradition at all of our Thanksgivings - ready for this -ACTUALLY MADE BY AUNT RENEE!!!- anyway we plan on heading south to Baltimore, DC, VA, Blue Ridge Mts during that time. Then it will be off to Ft Myers and the condo we have rented for December and January- most likely February too.
And now for politics - I may get my wish - losing all my money in exchange for Obama being president. A sacrifice I am gladly making. All right, not gladly but at least I'll get something out of this mess. 7 points up and Florida may be blue, NC is getting closer, VA seems to be in our column and IN getting closer - who would have thought. And gosh darn, my gal Sarah has indeed proved to be the gift that kept on giving - wink, wink.
Trisha
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