Day 8 Dec 2 Sunday Duncasnville PA to Clinton New Jersey
This was really kind of a day off
We slept in a little in the morning
Drove from Duncansville to Clinton New Jersey
Not far from where our interview is in the morning
We had a great big lunch at Red Robin yum
I got to try Yuengling it was tasty and I can see why people like it so much
Unfortunatly it is not allowed in the state of MI
We got to the hotel really early
I have been sitting the hotel lobby blogging all night long and texting with SenorDead all night long.
I miss my cat...
I am finally going to go now that I am all caught up on the blogging
Day 8 Map
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Day 6 Nov 30 Fri Stony Brook NY to Pennington New Jersey to Breezewood PA
Day 6 Nov 30 Fri Stony Brook NY to Pennington New Jersey to Breezewood PA
Whew! We are really pushing the envelope in terms of how far we can travel in one day without going crazy.
Woke up this morning and we headed to Stony Brook SchoolI didn't hang around for the interview or the tour at this school although I wish I had. Now that I am looking at the website I am realizing that this is a Christian private boarding school. I am always interested in the religious brainwashing of children. The campus of this school was not quite so remote but it was still beautiful non the less. It seemed a bit more stuffy than other schools.
To my suprise Stony Brook was the only school that I would give the "stuffy" label to with Fay School coming in second. By the end of the day today we had been to 4 schools and 2 would get the "stuffy" label from me and 2 would get the progressive "hippie" label from me. That is me speaking in gross generalizations though. All are great schools.
I instead went wandering about to the town near by that once again was historic and quaint and had a beautiful harbor. I checked things out and we shot some video and then we went to this very cute villiage inn for brunch.
Then off to New Jersey to Penninton SchoolI did not hang out for this inteview and tour either. This school seems pretty liberal from what deb communicated to me. Actually I think that I like this school a little more now that I have read this . You know I really love the fact that this school encourages everyone to come together and worship no matter what religon. Now that is amazing. Definitly a more progressive school with the thinking that they are creating and educating community leaders not more future rich people.
I once again wandered in to town and shot video of the area and the school. This school was also not as remote at all. But very much a part of a quaint town with lots of suburbia creeping up around it.
Then we had a pretty long drive to Breezewood PAAND this town was literally one big truck stop. Like gross. check this out...I was like the Sodom and Gamorah of rural PA.We had to eat at Bob Evans...not the biggest fan but it was better than our other options. I have to say Deb and I have done pretty good. While we haven't necessarily eaten all of the greatest things we have NOT eaten at a single fast food place yet.
Now this day was way longer than yesterday.
We totally crashed.
Day 6 Map
Whew! We are really pushing the envelope in terms of how far we can travel in one day without going crazy.
Woke up this morning and we headed to Stony Brook SchoolI didn't hang around for the interview or the tour at this school although I wish I had. Now that I am looking at the website I am realizing that this is a Christian private boarding school. I am always interested in the religious brainwashing of children. The campus of this school was not quite so remote but it was still beautiful non the less. It seemed a bit more stuffy than other schools.
To my suprise Stony Brook was the only school that I would give the "stuffy" label to with Fay School coming in second. By the end of the day today we had been to 4 schools and 2 would get the "stuffy" label from me and 2 would get the progressive "hippie" label from me. That is me speaking in gross generalizations though. All are great schools.
I instead went wandering about to the town near by that once again was historic and quaint and had a beautiful harbor. I checked things out and we shot some video and then we went to this very cute villiage inn for brunch.
Then off to New Jersey to Penninton SchoolI did not hang out for this inteview and tour either. This school seems pretty liberal from what deb communicated to me. Actually I think that I like this school a little more now that I have read this . You know I really love the fact that this school encourages everyone to come together and worship no matter what religon. Now that is amazing. Definitly a more progressive school with the thinking that they are creating and educating community leaders not more future rich people.
I once again wandered in to town and shot video of the area and the school. This school was also not as remote at all. But very much a part of a quaint town with lots of suburbia creeping up around it.
Then we had a pretty long drive to Breezewood PAAND this town was literally one big truck stop. Like gross. check this out...I was like the Sodom and Gamorah of rural PA.We had to eat at Bob Evans...not the biggest fan but it was better than our other options. I have to say Deb and I have done pretty good. While we haven't necessarily eaten all of the greatest things we have NOT eaten at a single fast food place yet.
Now this day was way longer than yesterday.
We totally crashed.
Day 6 Map
Day 5 Nov 29 Thurs Boston, MA to Southborough, MA to Connecticut to Long Island all in one day
Day 5 Nov 29 Thurs Boston, MA to Southborough, MA to Connecticut to Long Island all in one day!
Oh my God!! This day was crazy!! We did so much driving!!
This is the day we start taking Hwajin to boarding schools to look at. And we are going to about 2 a day. The poor girl has jet lag so bad she could hardly stay awake to talk to anyone.
My job at this point is to now chaufer and to shoot video of the schools campus and such so that Hwajin can actually remember what she saw later. I didn't mention I don't think that she is only 13. Plus she is as I did mention very jet lagged plus we are taking her to a ton of schools so we want to make sure she can remember it all later. Cause I am not sure that she will.
So we left Boston MA and headed to Southborough, MA to the first school.
Fay School . Well here is where I get introduced to the wonderful world of junior boarding schools and the affluent and elite of america. Our future leaders whose parents can afford to buy their kids an education that everyone deserves but only if you can afford it.
You know I am not knocking it actually. There is a very small part of me that might be a little resentful. BUT here is the big thing...these are really really really great schools with awesome programs!! Truly more than anything else I am sad. Cause I think every child in america deserves the kind of education that these schools give. I would totally send my kids to any of these schools I will be introducing you too. In fact if I have kids I am going to make it a point to try to be rich just so I could send them to one of these schools. I resent the fact that these opportunites are not given to all children that is what I resent. I don't resent the people who send their kids to these schools.
I shot some pics of the campus and went into the town to check out the community and per usual now everything was cute, quaint and locally owned. This was a particularly small town hidden away from things. In fact most of the schools are. If you were driving around you would never know you were driving in around or past anyone of these boarding schools. Especially since so many of them are so remote.
Then we were off to Washington Depot CT and Rumsey HallI suggest if you are really interested in learning about the intesity of these schools go and check out the admissions and academics section of the website I included. Wow. This campus was beautiful but very very very very remote. I have never seen houses and living like this ever in my life. I really don't know what to say about it. I wander in between "hese people are so lucky and they must be so smart to have gotten themselves to this place" to "you live in a world where you have no clue" It was truly truly beautiful school though and very progressive in its thinking. there seemed to be a big push for the students to find their own true full self erxpression whatever it may be. from art to music to math to science.
You know I really had the impression that these schools would really push and train these kids to a life of politics and buisness but really its not at all that and I guess I am glad for that. They are definitly being trained and educated to live in high society though. I can't even imagine the opportunites these kids are going to have that other (and the majority) of kids Don't have. Once again I found my self sad.
The assistant headmaster of this school was a bit of a tool. I don't even want to get into it. I do a great impression of him so if you want to hear it sometime just ask. Despite him though Rumsey Hall was a great school and is on my favorites list already of the schools.
And I don't think there are many pictures of the campus on the website. Really it wouldn't suprise me if there were Secret Service agents in the woods watching us. So they probably want to keep the place secret and remote for a reason...you would understand if you saw some of the houses around there too...it makes me wonder whose house we might have driven by.
THEN WE ARE OFF TO LONG ISLAND!!!
hahahaha this really was a crazy drive. I was driving and Deb was navigating and mapquest missed giving us a whole chunk of highway we needed to take and it was dark and raining and we landed ourselves right in the middle of New York City traffic. However stressful it might have been I really thought it was fun and funny. Deb and I managed to troubleshoot our way out and around and headed in the right direction while Hwajin sat in the back seat and laughed at me and Deb try to get our selves out the the pickle we were in.
We ended up catching a great very of the New York City skyline which I love to see. Over the Throgs Neck Bridge and into Long Island.We finally landed at our hotel at 9pm I think. whew!!!
Loading and unloading really sucked tonight cause we were on the fourth floor through a complicated lobby and it was a drag to have to wheel everything around
Once again a day of great scenery and lots of food for thought about society and how it all works.
Public radio was listened to on and off in all states we crossed into.
Hwajin is holding up ok but it was evidant in her interviews today that she is a bit tired and she is sleeping constantly when we drive. poor kid.
Day 5 Map
Oh my God!! This day was crazy!! We did so much driving!!
This is the day we start taking Hwajin to boarding schools to look at. And we are going to about 2 a day. The poor girl has jet lag so bad she could hardly stay awake to talk to anyone.
My job at this point is to now chaufer and to shoot video of the schools campus and such so that Hwajin can actually remember what she saw later. I didn't mention I don't think that she is only 13. Plus she is as I did mention very jet lagged plus we are taking her to a ton of schools so we want to make sure she can remember it all later. Cause I am not sure that she will.
So we left Boston MA and headed to Southborough, MA to the first school.
Fay School . Well here is where I get introduced to the wonderful world of junior boarding schools and the affluent and elite of america. Our future leaders whose parents can afford to buy their kids an education that everyone deserves but only if you can afford it.
You know I am not knocking it actually. There is a very small part of me that might be a little resentful. BUT here is the big thing...these are really really really great schools with awesome programs!! Truly more than anything else I am sad. Cause I think every child in america deserves the kind of education that these schools give. I would totally send my kids to any of these schools I will be introducing you too. In fact if I have kids I am going to make it a point to try to be rich just so I could send them to one of these schools. I resent the fact that these opportunites are not given to all children that is what I resent. I don't resent the people who send their kids to these schools.
I shot some pics of the campus and went into the town to check out the community and per usual now everything was cute, quaint and locally owned. This was a particularly small town hidden away from things. In fact most of the schools are. If you were driving around you would never know you were driving in around or past anyone of these boarding schools. Especially since so many of them are so remote.
Then we were off to Washington Depot CT and Rumsey HallI suggest if you are really interested in learning about the intesity of these schools go and check out the admissions and academics section of the website I included. Wow. This campus was beautiful but very very very very remote. I have never seen houses and living like this ever in my life. I really don't know what to say about it. I wander in between "hese people are so lucky and they must be so smart to have gotten themselves to this place" to "you live in a world where you have no clue" It was truly truly beautiful school though and very progressive in its thinking. there seemed to be a big push for the students to find their own true full self erxpression whatever it may be. from art to music to math to science.
You know I really had the impression that these schools would really push and train these kids to a life of politics and buisness but really its not at all that and I guess I am glad for that. They are definitly being trained and educated to live in high society though. I can't even imagine the opportunites these kids are going to have that other (and the majority) of kids Don't have. Once again I found my self sad.
The assistant headmaster of this school was a bit of a tool. I don't even want to get into it. I do a great impression of him so if you want to hear it sometime just ask. Despite him though Rumsey Hall was a great school and is on my favorites list already of the schools.
And I don't think there are many pictures of the campus on the website. Really it wouldn't suprise me if there were Secret Service agents in the woods watching us. So they probably want to keep the place secret and remote for a reason...you would understand if you saw some of the houses around there too...it makes me wonder whose house we might have driven by.
THEN WE ARE OFF TO LONG ISLAND!!!
hahahaha this really was a crazy drive. I was driving and Deb was navigating and mapquest missed giving us a whole chunk of highway we needed to take and it was dark and raining and we landed ourselves right in the middle of New York City traffic. However stressful it might have been I really thought it was fun and funny. Deb and I managed to troubleshoot our way out and around and headed in the right direction while Hwajin sat in the back seat and laughed at me and Deb try to get our selves out the the pickle we were in.
We ended up catching a great very of the New York City skyline which I love to see. Over the Throgs Neck Bridge and into Long Island.We finally landed at our hotel at 9pm I think. whew!!!
Loading and unloading really sucked tonight cause we were on the fourth floor through a complicated lobby and it was a drag to have to wheel everything around
Once again a day of great scenery and lots of food for thought about society and how it all works.
Public radio was listened to on and off in all states we crossed into.
Hwajin is holding up ok but it was evidant in her interviews today that she is a bit tired and she is sleeping constantly when we drive. poor kid.
Day 5 Map
Day 4 Wed Nov 28 Portsmouth, New Hamshire and to Durham and back and finally to Boston, MA
Day 4 Wed Nov 28 Portsmouth, New Hamshire and to Durham and back and finally to Boston, MA
Wow what a day this was.
So we having been waking up pretty early by the way. Alarm usually goes off at about 6 am. Which I guess isn't bad...i have had to get up earlier on productions before.
This morning was a beautiful morning and the sun was out in full thankully. It was pretty cold but that was ok.
We stayed in Portsmouth for the night but we didn't need to be anywhere until later in the day. Deb and I both needed a post office so we inquired for one and were told to head into downtown Portsmouth.
HOLY SHIT!!! What a step back in time. What a beautiful old city. The cutest most wonderful little old town ever. Deb and I were so struck by the whole thing. Check out all the pictures and bio at the link i provided. I will totally come back to visit this place again someday. What a great vacation to take and you are right next to Maine too. all the town x-mas decorations were out and it was just so awesome.
Well we also had a tentative schedule with a former Governor today. So former governor Jean Shaheen we were trying to get an interview with at her house in Durham. but her scheduler Dan eventually just told us no cause she is running for senate and just doesn't have the time for us. which was fine with me and Deb. We just decided we would go to the campaign headquarters and shoot some b-roll and see if we could at least catch a couple questions with her. We were totally ready to do this gorilla style. Dan her scheduler said it was ok that we come to headquarters as well so we weren't completely unexpected.
Well Deb and I left Portsmouth and headed to Durham to the address we were given. So we drive 30 min back into Durham and we are looking for this address and we aren't finding it. So Deb calls dear old Dan the scheduler and says "Dan we can not find this address in Durham that you say is the headquarters." and Dan says "oh thats cause the campaign headquarters are in Manchester." (which by the way is another hour in the opposite direction that we need to go) So when Deb and Dan were talking before we left Dan never mentioned oh by the way since you are not interviewing the governor at her home in Durham you can come the headquarters but they are Manchester.
(the link above is to her own website so I do realize it is not necessarily and objective opinion of who this woman is and her history as a politician but it was all I could really find about her)
so what for my moment of gorilla filmmaking. I was ready to shine baby!!!
Next Deb and I need to head to Boston. This is the day we needed to pick up Hwajin ( H wa gin) the korean girl and start taking her to boarding schools to look at the next day.
So Deb and I worked our way to Boston and drove around for awhile. You know Boston is really gritty. It looks a lot like Chicago but with out the charm and culture. and of course very Irish. We picked up Hwajin without issue and went to hour hotel.
We had a lot of time to relax this evening and I might have taken the opportunity to go downtown and see the city a bit but to be quite honest I am completely broke until I get paid for this so I really couldn't afford it.
There are really only two things I would have wanted to do. Go to Cheers and they have a movies shot in Boston tour that you can take and I would have totally done that. But oh well maybe another time. Boston did not strike me as must to revisit. I really didn't get out much to see it though so maybe I didnt' give it much of a chance.
Our hotel was a Hampton Inn. So far this has been my favorite hotel on the trip and we will be staying here serveral more times in the future. They have cookies ready for you at the counter when you come in. That alone is awesome.
Loading and unloading is becoming annoying but I am trying to have a good attitude about it. I will admit I over packed a little. Rather have to much than to little. Deb packed a little differently and has like 10 different small bags...which is cheating. She tried to make it look like she didn't pack much but I am not fooled
Debs eye is starting to look pretty messed up too from hitting it on the bookcase. It has bleed into the tissue around her eye so it really literally looks like someone punched her really hard. I am sure this will impress the affluent boarding school headmasters and governors we are going to meet. hehe We are laughing about it but Deb is doing her best to at least have her hair cover her forhead but her eye can not be covered.
hmm what else happend today...
we listened to New Hampshire Public Radio and Mass Public Radio
I have discovered that I like to drive a lot...I will drive anywhere...maybe I will just become a driver for a living.
Day 4 Map
Wow what a day this was.
So we having been waking up pretty early by the way. Alarm usually goes off at about 6 am. Which I guess isn't bad...i have had to get up earlier on productions before.
This morning was a beautiful morning and the sun was out in full thankully. It was pretty cold but that was ok.
We stayed in Portsmouth for the night but we didn't need to be anywhere until later in the day. Deb and I both needed a post office so we inquired for one and were told to head into downtown Portsmouth.
HOLY SHIT!!! What a step back in time. What a beautiful old city. The cutest most wonderful little old town ever. Deb and I were so struck by the whole thing. Check out all the pictures and bio at the link i provided. I will totally come back to visit this place again someday. What a great vacation to take and you are right next to Maine too. all the town x-mas decorations were out and it was just so awesome.
Well we also had a tentative schedule with a former Governor today. So former governor Jean Shaheen we were trying to get an interview with at her house in Durham. but her scheduler Dan eventually just told us no cause she is running for senate and just doesn't have the time for us. which was fine with me and Deb. We just decided we would go to the campaign headquarters and shoot some b-roll and see if we could at least catch a couple questions with her. We were totally ready to do this gorilla style. Dan her scheduler said it was ok that we come to headquarters as well so we weren't completely unexpected.
Well Deb and I left Portsmouth and headed to Durham to the address we were given. So we drive 30 min back into Durham and we are looking for this address and we aren't finding it. So Deb calls dear old Dan the scheduler and says "Dan we can not find this address in Durham that you say is the headquarters." and Dan says "oh thats cause the campaign headquarters are in Manchester." (which by the way is another hour in the opposite direction that we need to go) So when Deb and Dan were talking before we left Dan never mentioned oh by the way since you are not interviewing the governor at her home in Durham you can come the headquarters but they are Manchester.
(the link above is to her own website so I do realize it is not necessarily and objective opinion of who this woman is and her history as a politician but it was all I could really find about her)
so what for my moment of gorilla filmmaking. I was ready to shine baby!!!
Next Deb and I need to head to Boston. This is the day we needed to pick up Hwajin ( H wa gin) the korean girl and start taking her to boarding schools to look at the next day.
So Deb and I worked our way to Boston and drove around for awhile. You know Boston is really gritty. It looks a lot like Chicago but with out the charm and culture. and of course very Irish. We picked up Hwajin without issue and went to hour hotel.
We had a lot of time to relax this evening and I might have taken the opportunity to go downtown and see the city a bit but to be quite honest I am completely broke until I get paid for this so I really couldn't afford it.
There are really only two things I would have wanted to do. Go to Cheers and they have a movies shot in Boston tour that you can take and I would have totally done that. But oh well maybe another time. Boston did not strike me as must to revisit. I really didn't get out much to see it though so maybe I didnt' give it much of a chance.
Our hotel was a Hampton Inn. So far this has been my favorite hotel on the trip and we will be staying here serveral more times in the future. They have cookies ready for you at the counter when you come in. That alone is awesome.
Loading and unloading is becoming annoying but I am trying to have a good attitude about it. I will admit I over packed a little. Rather have to much than to little. Deb packed a little differently and has like 10 different small bags...which is cheating. She tried to make it look like she didn't pack much but I am not fooled
Debs eye is starting to look pretty messed up too from hitting it on the bookcase. It has bleed into the tissue around her eye so it really literally looks like someone punched her really hard. I am sure this will impress the affluent boarding school headmasters and governors we are going to meet. hehe We are laughing about it but Deb is doing her best to at least have her hair cover her forhead but her eye can not be covered.
hmm what else happend today...
we listened to New Hampshire Public Radio and Mass Public Radio
I have discovered that I like to drive a lot...I will drive anywhere...maybe I will just become a driver for a living.
Day 4 Map
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Day 3 Nov 27 Tuesday Burlington, Vermont to Portsmouth, New Hampshire (and Maine)
Day 3 Nov 27 Tuesday Burlington, Vermont to Portsmouth, New Hampshire (and Maine)
This morning was our first interview with our first govenorGovenor Madaline Kunin of Vermont
I was nervous...I hadn't set up or done and interview like this in awhile and of course I just had the first day jitters of any production I guess. It was great to drive into Burlington during the day and see it and of course it was all very old and historic and "cute". The university was every old and I could have walked around all day and shot stuff but we were on a time crunch.
We went to the interview at 10am and I started to set up. Deb was trying to help me and she ended up hitting her head on a bookcase and gave herself a huge knot on her forhead. Luckily her hair covered it.
Once things were set up I was feeling better. It was a small office with all white walls which really pissed me off cause the light bounced everywhere so I went really simple with the lighting. Thats neither here nor there to most of you.
Theinterview though is what was most unbelievable. I am just amazed at what she had to say and it is all ringing and running around in my head right now. Once the interveiw gets transcribed I will revisit somethings with you all and share. I love being a woman...we have such amazing stories to tell that men will never have.
Deb and I ate lunch in downtown Burlington at a bistro that cost more than we expected. we paid 6.50 for a liter of water. The govenor recommended the place...the food was great. There was a downtown outdoor mall too. Its something that Grand Rapids has been trying to do with the Monroe Mall for so many years and has failed. There is a formula for it but Grand Rapids just isn't getting it...they need to talk to Burlington Vermont and get the recipe for downtown success thats for sure. It doesn't include a movie theater and another indoor shopping mall!!!
We start to drive through Vermont and we make the stop that I have been longing to make for ever so long
BEN AND JERRY'S!!!!!!!!!I can now die happy...I had the best ice cream there and you can only get it at the factory. It was called Chocolate Therapy...it was like mud only made out of chocolate. Awesome. Brings new meaning to the words sexual chocolate for me.
This is by far my favorite drive so far...Vermont is gorgous and it is now my new favorite state. I would totally come back here and live. I love it. I can't believe how quaint all the towns are in all the wonderful mountains and valleys. WOW there are not words. Deb and I just couldn't believe it all. I was glad it was a nice day and the sun started to shine and the gloom was gone.
I was dark by the time we got into New Hampshire. We couldn't see much.We stayed in Portsmouth for the night. But we drove into Kittery Maine to a Warrens Lobster House for dinner. I did not get lobster however I got salmon but it was all worth it. Just the the experience of it all. So now we can add Maine to the list of places we traveled.
Listened to Vermont Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
New goal is to listen to the state public radio station of every state we enter...
Day 3 Map
This morning was our first interview with our first govenorGovenor Madaline Kunin of Vermont
I was nervous...I hadn't set up or done and interview like this in awhile and of course I just had the first day jitters of any production I guess. It was great to drive into Burlington during the day and see it and of course it was all very old and historic and "cute". The university was every old and I could have walked around all day and shot stuff but we were on a time crunch.
We went to the interview at 10am and I started to set up. Deb was trying to help me and she ended up hitting her head on a bookcase and gave herself a huge knot on her forhead. Luckily her hair covered it.
Once things were set up I was feeling better. It was a small office with all white walls which really pissed me off cause the light bounced everywhere so I went really simple with the lighting. Thats neither here nor there to most of you.
Theinterview though is what was most unbelievable. I am just amazed at what she had to say and it is all ringing and running around in my head right now. Once the interveiw gets transcribed I will revisit somethings with you all and share. I love being a woman...we have such amazing stories to tell that men will never have.
Deb and I ate lunch in downtown Burlington at a bistro that cost more than we expected. we paid 6.50 for a liter of water. The govenor recommended the place...the food was great. There was a downtown outdoor mall too. Its something that Grand Rapids has been trying to do with the Monroe Mall for so many years and has failed. There is a formula for it but Grand Rapids just isn't getting it...they need to talk to Burlington Vermont and get the recipe for downtown success thats for sure. It doesn't include a movie theater and another indoor shopping mall!!!
We start to drive through Vermont and we make the stop that I have been longing to make for ever so long
BEN AND JERRY'S!!!!!!!!!I can now die happy...I had the best ice cream there and you can only get it at the factory. It was called Chocolate Therapy...it was like mud only made out of chocolate. Awesome. Brings new meaning to the words sexual chocolate for me.
This is by far my favorite drive so far...Vermont is gorgous and it is now my new favorite state. I would totally come back here and live. I love it. I can't believe how quaint all the towns are in all the wonderful mountains and valleys. WOW there are not words. Deb and I just couldn't believe it all. I was glad it was a nice day and the sun started to shine and the gloom was gone.
I was dark by the time we got into New Hampshire. We couldn't see much.We stayed in Portsmouth for the night. But we drove into Kittery Maine to a Warrens Lobster House for dinner. I did not get lobster however I got salmon but it was all worth it. Just the the experience of it all. So now we can add Maine to the list of places we traveled.
Listened to Vermont Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
New goal is to listen to the state public radio station of every state we enter...
Day 3 Map
Day 2 Monday Nov 26 Toronto Canada to Burlington Vermont
Day 2 Monday Nov 26 Toronto, Canada to Burlington, Vermont
Well Day 2
Here is what I have discovered
Canadians love Home Depot...in fact the Home Depots there look to be twice the size of out Home Depots. Its rather scary.
Tim Hortons...wow...need I say more...I thought Starbuck was bad...there is a Tim Hortons in every Home Depot for crying out loud...they squeeze a Tim Hortons where ever they can.
Canadian love Home Depot and Tim Hortons
The GreenbeltThe Greenbelt in Canada protect from urban spral and has left the coutry side of Canada just beautiful....We were traveling on a very gloomy day once again but wow...I really appreciate what they are doing here. I never realized there was so much farm land in Canada.
Also once again I would like to mention NO billboards...love it.
I also love that the rest stops there are actually gas stations...love it.
The first thing we saw when we drove into Northern New York was a sign that said THIS IS MOWHAWK COUNTRY NOT NEW YORK!!! Northern New York really was not like I had imagined it. There were lots of trailers and shoty towns. There was a lot of history coming out though.
At this point the further east we go the older things are getting and i am loving it...right down to the creepy old century old cemetaries and houses. Wow. This is also the introduction of everything being "cute" to me...some of the things we are seeing are just so darned quaint I can't believe it!!!
Lake Champlain is gorgeous and what an amazing sight with all the history...I was just struck by it all. I even looked for some images on the internet of what I saw but nothing really represented what I saw with my eye. No picture I saw really did any justice. There were so many old buildings including a very large old abandoned building on the edge of the lake...it look like and old hotel...very creepy. Totally something out of a movie.
By the time we made it into Vermont it was dark. We stay in Burlington and went to the Vermont Brewing Company for dinner. I had a great dinner and an even better raseberry brew that I really loved. It wasn't overly sweet and tasted like real beer. Some fruity beers can be to sweet. This one was award winning.
The Unversity of Vermont is here and I can wait to see it in the morning. It looks very old but it is dark and raining right now so we will see.
Listening to Canadian Public RadioNew York Public RadioVermont Public Raido
I did a lot of the driving...I really like to drive...it helps me experience the landscape and travel better.
Day 2 Map
Well Day 2
Here is what I have discovered
Canadians love Home Depot...in fact the Home Depots there look to be twice the size of out Home Depots. Its rather scary.
Tim Hortons...wow...need I say more...I thought Starbuck was bad...there is a Tim Hortons in every Home Depot for crying out loud...they squeeze a Tim Hortons where ever they can.
Canadian love Home Depot and Tim Hortons
The GreenbeltThe Greenbelt in Canada protect from urban spral and has left the coutry side of Canada just beautiful....We were traveling on a very gloomy day once again but wow...I really appreciate what they are doing here. I never realized there was so much farm land in Canada.
Also once again I would like to mention NO billboards...love it.
I also love that the rest stops there are actually gas stations...love it.
The first thing we saw when we drove into Northern New York was a sign that said THIS IS MOWHAWK COUNTRY NOT NEW YORK!!! Northern New York really was not like I had imagined it. There were lots of trailers and shoty towns. There was a lot of history coming out though.
At this point the further east we go the older things are getting and i am loving it...right down to the creepy old century old cemetaries and houses. Wow. This is also the introduction of everything being "cute" to me...some of the things we are seeing are just so darned quaint I can't believe it!!!
Lake Champlain is gorgeous and what an amazing sight with all the history...I was just struck by it all. I even looked for some images on the internet of what I saw but nothing really represented what I saw with my eye. No picture I saw really did any justice. There were so many old buildings including a very large old abandoned building on the edge of the lake...it look like and old hotel...very creepy. Totally something out of a movie.
By the time we made it into Vermont it was dark. We stay in Burlington and went to the Vermont Brewing Company for dinner. I had a great dinner and an even better raseberry brew that I really loved. It wasn't overly sweet and tasted like real beer. Some fruity beers can be to sweet. This one was award winning.
The Unversity of Vermont is here and I can wait to see it in the morning. It looks very old but it is dark and raining right now so we will see.
Listening to Canadian Public RadioNew York Public RadioVermont Public Raido
I did a lot of the driving...I really like to drive...it helps me experience the landscape and travel better.
Day 2 Map
Day 1 Nov 25 Grand Rapids MI to Toronto Canada
Day 1 Nov 25 Grand Rapids MI to Toronto Canada
Well I have made the trip from the west side to the east side many times and there is nothing new to report. However it is not every day that I take the bridge over into Canada. In fact I havn't been to Canada since I was well...19.
It took us 2 hours to get across the bridge.
Things I like about CanadaThere are NO bill boards at the side of the road!!!
The landscape is beautiful...despite the fact that it was a very gloomy day I really enjoyed not having advertising shoved down my throat at every exit.
We made it Toronto by night fall. I have never been to Toronto before...really didn't get to see much of the city though really at all. But I got to be there and see what it looked like. We went some place local to eat that had a bit of an Irish twist to it and that was cool. I think it was called Ye Old Jester or something like that.
Good first day of driving.
Listening to Michigan Public Raido/Canadian Public Radio
Knitted a scarf on the way in the car...great stuff to pass the driving time
Well I have made the trip from the west side to the east side many times and there is nothing new to report. However it is not every day that I take the bridge over into Canada. In fact I havn't been to Canada since I was well...19.
It took us 2 hours to get across the bridge.
Things I like about CanadaThere are NO bill boards at the side of the road!!!
The landscape is beautiful...despite the fact that it was a very gloomy day I really enjoyed not having advertising shoved down my throat at every exit.
We made it Toronto by night fall. I have never been to Toronto before...really didn't get to see much of the city though really at all. But I got to be there and see what it looked like. We went some place local to eat that had a bit of an Irish twist to it and that was cool. I think it was called Ye Old Jester or something like that.
Good first day of driving.
Listening to Michigan Public Raido/Canadian Public Radio
Knitted a scarf on the way in the car...great stuff to pass the driving time
The Project
The Project
Ok, I have sometime to blog so I am going to catch up a little bit on what is going on right now.
The project I am working on right now.
My friend and mentor Deb is getting her PhD in Education from Eastern which is requiring her to write a dissertation. She has written a 185 pg proposal titled Women Govenors:the influence of gender on public policy. So as a part of this proposal she is going to interview former woman govenors to start research on just that the influence of gender on public policy. I sugessted she shoot the interviews and turn it into a documentary if she wanted to later. She asked if I wanted to do it and I said yes.
So for awhile we were not quite sure when this project was really going to take off UNTIL Debs son Ian called her from Korea. Ian (Debs son) who lives in Korea with his wife and kids. It just so happens that he has started his own buisness helping Korean parents find shools for their kids to go to in the states...boarding schools...the rich expensive kind. So he called Deb and said "Hey mom I am sending a Korean girl over to look at schools in New England, will you take her around to these schools." Deb said sure and while I am there I have former govenors that I want to interview in the New England area so I will do that as well.
So Deb said I am going to do this and I said are you still going to shoot the interveiws and she said well yeah I guess I will do you want to come along? and I said sure...so here I am.
I have already learned quite a bit. Here are just a few things.
There are only 29 female govenors ever. That's it.
12 are still alive.1 has already turned down being interviewed cause she does not want to recount the horrible expereince she had
1 we can not interview cause she is running for a senate seat and is too busy
You know I really can't even go into how much I have learned from this little project of Debs...we have had so many long conversations about the history of women. I thought I knew a lot but man do feel that I really have to start reading up on this more. There are so many amazing stories to tell.
So we leave Sunday November 25. We are on the road for a few days working on our project then we pick up the Korean girl in Boston and have her for about 4 days showing her around and the a few more days on our project.
Stay tuned for highlights
Ok, I have sometime to blog so I am going to catch up a little bit on what is going on right now.
The project I am working on right now.
My friend and mentor Deb is getting her PhD in Education from Eastern which is requiring her to write a dissertation. She has written a 185 pg proposal titled Women Govenors:the influence of gender on public policy. So as a part of this proposal she is going to interview former woman govenors to start research on just that the influence of gender on public policy. I sugessted she shoot the interviews and turn it into a documentary if she wanted to later. She asked if I wanted to do it and I said yes.
So for awhile we were not quite sure when this project was really going to take off UNTIL Debs son Ian called her from Korea. Ian (Debs son) who lives in Korea with his wife and kids. It just so happens that he has started his own buisness helping Korean parents find shools for their kids to go to in the states...boarding schools...the rich expensive kind. So he called Deb and said "Hey mom I am sending a Korean girl over to look at schools in New England, will you take her around to these schools." Deb said sure and while I am there I have former govenors that I want to interview in the New England area so I will do that as well.
So Deb said I am going to do this and I said are you still going to shoot the interveiws and she said well yeah I guess I will do you want to come along? and I said sure...so here I am.
I have already learned quite a bit. Here are just a few things.
There are only 29 female govenors ever. That's it.
12 are still alive.1 has already turned down being interviewed cause she does not want to recount the horrible expereince she had
1 we can not interview cause she is running for a senate seat and is too busy
You know I really can't even go into how much I have learned from this little project of Debs...we have had so many long conversations about the history of women. I thought I knew a lot but man do feel that I really have to start reading up on this more. There are so many amazing stories to tell.
So we leave Sunday November 25. We are on the road for a few days working on our project then we pick up the Korean girl in Boston and have her for about 4 days showing her around and the a few more days on our project.
Stay tuned for highlights
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