It's after 10 o'clock Saturday morning and I have completed my desired task of checking e-mail and updating the blog. I've spent over ten hours in Panera Bread!! The following (below wiggly line) is similar to the blog I published at 1:04 PM yesterday May 28th, 2010. It served my purpose of advising friends and family that I am back in the U.S.--and working on my blogs. For your convenience, the following information is in sequential order. Ignore the date and time stamps on the individual blogs.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Is there such a thing as WiFi withdrawal?? I haven't had WiFi since Tuesday morning, May 25th. I'm in a Panera in Rochester, New York. So much has happened since my last blog from Panera in Lockport, New York. Will I ever be able to bring you up-to-date?? I've traveled 105.5 miles today from a Sam's Club in Niagara Falls, New York--basically along State Highway 18 called the Seaway Trail. (I spent the night in the Sam's parking lot after entering the U.S. about 6:30 PM.)
Today I scribbled the following notes (but amplified them for the blog):
1) Delay at Sam's Club because the KIA battery was dead. I left the GPS plugged in and it must have drained the battery. A nice man named Randy (Sam's employee) gave me a boost. "Leaving at 8:20." 2) Praise God for favors large and small!! At 9:20 I stopped at Lazy Lakes Camping Resort--only to learn it is "for members only." The exit took me right past their dump stations so I took care of a necessary task. I'm not sure of the nearby town because my GPS has me on a series of state highways (and that's OK with me). 3) "It is dark and cloudy and a few drops of rain at 9:56, at Wilson, while en route to Olcott." 4) "Ten o'clock, at Highway 18 and seeing Lake Ontario. Twenty-nine miles from Sam's." 5) I didn't have breakfast so at Olcott I fixed tea and ate an "oatmeal-on-the-run" breakfast bar. I was in their attractive city park along the Lake so could "fix" while leaving the engine running to charge the battery. Then I drove... and found the advertised historic carousel (not open). 6) Scary experience: I jumped out to take a picture of a small lighthouse--and failed to put the KIA in park and set the brake. The car was rolling away from me!! AOK, I caught up with it!! (I don't remember ever doing a dumb stunt like that before!!) 7) Lilac bushes were laden with purple blooms!! 8) Weak sunshine at 11:00. 9) Near Carlton, an Amish farmer with team of horses plowing a field (I didn't stop). 10) In Hilton, I saw a McDonald's for the first time in a week or ten days. 11) Seventy-four degrees inside the T@B as I got out laptop computer at 12:45.
The following pictures are of Sam's Club, Olcott, and the little lighthouse.
Postscript, 7:07 PM: I'm still working on my blogs!! I've been glued to this seat in Panera for over six hours!!
