Summer 2007

32 MPG with the AC on !

July 8, 2007

Well, I filled the tank for the fist time (well, actually the second, but the first I can calculate MPG from) tonight. Turns out I'm getting about 32.3 MGP. This was pretty much highway, although some of it goes through towns (rural area, not many interstate type highways), so it's not complete highway. This was [...]

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Just chillin' with the Goldsmiths, and once a web designer, always a web designer

July 7, 2007

My first social stop on my trip is with Karen Goldsmith in Fayetteville, NC. Turns out her folks are on their visit the kids in the US trip (they have lived in Israel for the past 13? years), so I get to visit with them as well. We've been hanging out today, and made it [...]

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Picked up my new car !!

July 7, 2007

Well, the taxi driver got lost on the way, but I made it to the car dealership and there was my nice shiny used car waiting for me. I've driven it about 100 miles (to Karen's house), and it seems to be working well. The car has NO automatic anything, and it's amazing to be [...]

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Hanging out in the Vegas airport

July 5, 2007

Well,  I had an hour or so to kill in the Vegas airport, so what else to do but gamble. I only lost $14 in the quarter slot, cha-ching. Then it was off to my gate to hang out and wait. Now I find that my flight has been delayed an hour. That gives me [...]

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Fun at the Oakland airport

July 5, 2007

Well, first off, fly Oakland whenever you can. No wait at the ticket counter, no wait for the security check point. Just keep walking through I got here about four hours early (I finally got all packed), so I had lots of time to kill. I found the Castlemont High School Knight's Cafe in the [...]

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Last minute packing for North Carolina and more

July 4, 2007

Well, tomorrow I take a plane to North Carolina to get a car, for a physics teaching workshop, and a great road trip back. I'll be posting here throughout the trip, so stop back by to see what's up. If you forget the password, it's the name of my granddaughter !! The photo on the [...]

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