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Day 6

August 8, 2012

Running a little bit behind. Yesterday, we travelled from Opelika, AL to Houma, LA.

Mileage yesterday was 475 miles and trip to date of 1675 miles. We pretty much cruised at 65mph the whole distance except for some areas under construction.

After 400 miles we stopped in Metaire LA to visit with Paula’s cousing Jan. Then had dinner with Jan and her husband Tom. We ate in local seafood restaurant called “Charlie’s Seafood”. Had boiled shrimp and other seafood dishes.


Finally finished dinner and returned to Jan’s house. Then we made the final trek to houma that took about an hour. Finally pulled into Houma around 2100.

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Location:Houma, LA

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Day 3

August 4, 2012

We arrived yesterday afternoon at our destination in the lovely city of Cary, NC. We drove a total of 400 miles yesterday for a trip to date of 775 miles. The trip was uneventful except for heavy traffic going through Richmond,VA.

We will be in the NC area until Monday morning when we leave for New Orleans. We are the guests of John & Jennifer Fisher. John was one of my coworkers at HP working on storage arrays.

Here is the view out John’s back door.


We had an excellent home cooked dinner of chicken and noodles. Today we will do some touring.

Sunday we will go visit the Wedges. Later.

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Location:Cary, NC

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Day 2

August 3, 2012

Getting to hit the road again. Today we will be heading to Cary, NC. GPS says 320 miles. This is a bit less than yesterday. We should be off a little bit earlier than yesterday.

Free breakfast downstairs. then we get going.

We will be traveling through Baltimore, around DC, then VA, then NC.

Now for something silly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqnKBpf0s5o&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Location:Newark, DE

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End of day 1

August 2, 2012

First day is done. We drove 355 miles today. We just pulled into Newark DE at a Days Inn. $59 per night, not fancy but will do. The AC is working and it has beds.

They have free wifi, but the download speed sucks, so I’ll use LTE.

We stopped for lunch in Vernon CT at Reins’ Deli. This is a great NY style deli that has been there for many years. First discovered it on a business trip with my good friend Tom Speake. Great food.


Took the Merritt Parkway through CT. Good news no trucks, bad news can’t go much faster than 50 mph.

When we got to NY, we only made one mistake getting on the GW bridge, then on to NJ Tpke. Heavy traffic through Newark. Eventually eased up.

Tomorrow we travel from DE to NC to visit the Fishers in Cary and the Wedges in Mebane.

This morning we dropped of the key to Janice. Folks at Chelms Peds asked when are you leaving? Answer: Now.

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Location:Newark DE

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One day to go

August 1, 2012

One to go until we leave. We started planning this trip about two years ago. It always seemed like this day was so far in the future and now it’s here.

I m sitting in the hair salon waiting for Paula to get her hair done so I have plenty of time to blog even with getting my hair cut.

So today when we finish here we go to Brookline for doctor’s appt. then tonight I have lodge Past Masters’ dinner.

Last night we had dinner with Jim & Janice at Kimball’s in Westford. Tomorrow we head on down the road.


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Location:Chelmsford, MA

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D day minus 2

July 31, 2012

Met with the RE folks yesterday. Took condo off of market for few months. Let thing settle a bit. Probably back on market in the spring. Still trying for rental.

Put the patio furniture and grill away. Assuming that no rental, then we have to have the patio stuff in for winter. Took down “Bowker Party Deck” sign.

Dry cleaners SNAFU’d yesterday. Clothes not ready due to boiler failure. So now we have to go to Laconia to try and find the stuff. Closed out PO box. Got refund, didn’t expect that.

So got to go up the hill to dumpster with the trash then start loading.

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Location:Plymouth, NH

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Schedule

May 31, 2012

We’re beginning to nail down our travel schedule this summer. Here are some key dates:

June 16 – Move out of Billerica house
June 22 – Close on Billerica house
August 1 – TTL Past Masters’ Dinner – Lodge of Qualification
August 2 – Leave Billerica
August 5 or 6 Arrive NC
August 10 – Arrive New Orleans
August 13 – Memphis, Kansas etc.
August 16 or 17 Chicago
August 20 – SLC, UT
August 27 Arrive LA (not sure whether we go through Las Vegas or visit friends in Sacramento and/or SFO)

The beginning of the schedule is obviously more certain. We expect to be making it up as we go.

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