. . . Today we drove and drove and drove some more. From Ohio to just west of Baltimore, Maryland. We were going to push for Baltimore which is where Ben's sister Sara lives, but could not quite make it -- 130 more miles -- it's just best to stop whe we get too tired.
Let's see. . .saw a sign in Ohio that read: Lover's Lane. . . would have been interesting to discover why they called it that. Perhaps my most vivid memory of today was truckers -- in the last couple of days we have seen thousands and thousands of truckers on the Interstate. Sometimes we get sandwiched between two of them -- can be scary -- they are so big and so loud.
We got behind a rendering truck for a long way today -- phew! I asked Ben to slow down (which I had to explain by way of analogies ) so that old truck could get way in front of us. Then, even though the truck was way in front of us the air still stank for a long time.
We had a lovely lunch today. Stopped in a little town I think was called Beaumont Ohio. Went into the grocery store there and bought some sandwiches for lunch and took them back to the trailer. We took out a couple of lawn chairs and just sat outside in the warm, sunny weather and had an interesting discussion. Was a very quiet little place and green grass all around.
Okay, I'll tell you abut our discussion. In the grocery store were signs covering all the tabloid newspapers. The sign read: "We know the tabloid issue is a sensitive one for our customers. We do not think we have the right to censor according to our own standards of what is appropriate. So we have chosen to continue to sell the tabloids but to cover them up."
. . .Ben thought it was a good thing that they are at least covering the tabloids.
. . . I thought it was wimpy to just cover them but continue to sell them. I also thought their reasoning was faulty because of course they did have the right in fact not only the right but the responsibility to censor what they sell. I further thought that the sign was a lie because they most certainly DO censor books, magazines and videos that they sell. Every day they make choices about such things.
. . . Ben told me I could only see the world in black and white.
. . .I'll be courageous here and and say feedback welcome. .
We drove through a tunnel in the Allegheny mountains today. Also are beginning to notice more and more patches of beautifully colored leaves. I am thinking that on our return trip the colors should be in full array.
. . .Had fun tonight cooking hot dogs over an open fire for dinner.
Tomorrow Baltimore for sure!
Hurray I'm all caught up!
I have to figure out how to enable spell check on this new computer -- so if any of the words are spelled wrong please overlook.
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