CaptainOrange

As we drive (anywhere from 8-15 hours a day), we keep seeing tantalizing signs along the side of the road: "Market!", "Oliver's Lumber and Gift Shop", "Snake River Petting Zoo", etc... The 19-year-old Quester in me wants to investigate each one. The 44-year-old father in me just wants to drop off my kid at university and get back to his $1000 memory foam-topped mattress. I proposed a game to Leora. "We should keep track of all of the signs we can see from the road inviting us to do things. After the journey we can recount all of the things that we didn't do and maybe calculate how long it would've taken to actually do all of those things on our way to Mt. Allison. But, all I've been able to think about today is what are all the things that I didn't do for her? Which roads did we not go down together? What are the things I saw signs for that I didn't teach her and which signs did I miss altogether? When the girls were younger an...

Good morning. And he meant it! Leora is beginning a new adventure at Mt. Allison University. So... she and I (and all her worldly possessions) are off to New Brunswick! Yesterday we covered 230 songs from 1968, used $90 worth of gas, ate bagels, cream cheese, guacamole and garden tomatoes... All of which took us 1100-1200 km. Highlights were: A beautiful misty morning headed East, The Beatles' The White Album , The most pleasant US boarder agent ever, Van Morrison's Astral Weeks , More Stars in the sky than Leora can ever remember, The Mothers of Invention We're Only in it for the Money , and sleeping in the car in the rain. For Apple Music listeners, here is yesterday's playlist: 1001 Albums 05--1968-1969 by Michael Diakuw on @AppleMusic. https://itunes.apple.com/ca/playlist/1001-albums-05-1968-1969/idpl.346c76ed7c62474b9257f7ef0cca152d