Category: Travel

Today brought further car-touring around points of Ginna-interest: my old (detested) school, my old (beloved) house, and the lovely, tree-enshrouded Hoopes Reservoir, where swimming is strictly prohibited (and where I skinny-dipped in high school, and into whose waters my mother before me also once ventured). We made a brief stop at Valley Garden Park, a place Granddad used to take me when I was little. On arrival, Molly and Josh immediately scampered up an excellent […]

Ma and I spent a quiet morning drinking buckets of tea and coffee until Molly and Josh arrived from their lodgings nearby. (Ma’s new place has just one spare bedroom and I was in it.) After lunch we piled into her Subaru and tootled around the greater Greenville area, with me at the helm. We secured supplementary groceries from the fancy-schmancy Janssen’s Market, and then I subjected my captive but apparently willing audience to a […]

In preparation for our eastward journey, yesterday I downloaded our boarding passes from the American Airlines site and checked to make sure that Molly, Josh (her fella) and I were still assigned to our chosen seats, all together toward the front of the plane. We were. Alas, a while later a text from Molly revealed that all was not well after all: American had just tossed the three of us into random, separate locations around […]