Aug 21, 2006

Back from Vermont in ALMOST record time

We made the loooooong drive back from Waterville, Vermont yesterday. Check it out on a map. It's way up at the top of the state. I always shoot to make the trip in ten hours. I've done it once in dozens of voyages.

Yesterday, we would have made it within the magic time limit it not for for—

You know, I really wish I could point the finger at another member of the traveling party here. Naturally, everyone else is the anchor holding us back, wanting to make stops for things like—pah!—food and bathroom breaks. When we could be making time! I kid you not.

But no, the goof in the ointment was moi.

Early in the trip, while taking a pullover jacket off, I snagged my glasses and lost one lens. Well, not the lens, but the fiberglass thread that runs underneath it. The lens support system on that side. Fortunately, I use clip-on sunglasses that I was able to use to hold the lens in place while I drove. God forbid that I trust the schedule to Janet.

But because I had a meeting yesterday evening where it would definitely have looked out of place to wear clip-ons indoors, I had to detour to the Nittany Mall in State College and run into Pearle Vision for a quick fix. It only took twelve minutes, but that made our trip time about 10 hours and nine minutes.

Sigh.

Keith, Ya Goof!

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