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July 27, 2007
Philadelphia on a bit more than Ten Dollars a Day
Today I flew off to Philadelphia to — well, I'll go on about the 'to' more in a later entry. Today, we'll just talk about travel.
And, first, Time Travel. Yes, I know, this entry has a Friday date, but you can't help but feel it was written sometime after that. It was. Sunday evening, to be exact. I tried something new this vacation … I didn't turn my computer on until today, and I didn't drag my cell phone around everywhere I went. Once in a while I need to be away from technology.
Anyway, getting to Regular, Jet-Airplane-Based, Travel.
I was scheduled to fly out of Port Columbus at 9:15 a.m. Friday morning. It's not too early and not too late. I figured that if I climbed into bed Thursday night at midnight I'd still get plenty of sleep. It was my intention to climb into bed closer to 10.
However, 10 o'clock found me at a store looking for OSU memorabilia. I wanted to make sure I had OSU shirts for some of the people I'd be meeting in Philly (Dutch Jack from Holland and Lady Penelope from England, whose name is really not Penelope) and I was having trouble finding just the shirt I wanted (Something in a green, not the typical red or gray stuff you normally find. And I'm kidding about that; most OSU shirts are going to be Scarlett and Gray.).
You know, I can already tell that this has the potential to drone on and on, so let me finish with a single story so I can dash off to meet people for dinner.
Last night the group was going to meet for a more-formal-than-jeans dinner. Most of what I own are jeans so on Thursday I had to find a pair of something less casual. Lo and behold, in the closet on a hangar, were a pair of black pants I didn't recognize. However, they fit and I thought they'd do nicely. And then I thought about it and decided the material might be too heavy.
I shot off to Target.
While I was there I picked up a new shirt for the dinner, some underwear for the trip and new socks. I figured buying new stuff would mean I'd have less to dig up and pack at home.
I found a pair of pants I liked and tried them on. They fit, they were black, I liked them, I put them in the cart. And then I started thinking a bit about them. They seemed very similar to the pants I had at home that I didn't recognize. Since I do a lot of shopping at Target, and there was a chance that was where those pants came from, I thought I'd call my mother (who was at home with my boys) and ask her to read the tags that were in the mystery pants at home.
Yes. I was getting ready to buy the same, exact pair of pants I'd had on at home thirty minutes before.
So now I have two pair.
No I don't. I put them back and went with the pair I already own.
(We'll get to Regular, Jet-Airplane-Based, Travel when I'm sitting at home typing and I've unshunned technology.)
Some photos:
In this first one, I've been in Philly for about an hour.
In this photo I've been in Philly for three days.
Posted by delmer at July 27, 2007 5:13 PM
Comments
Looks like you should have gone to bed at 10 after all sleepyhead.
Posted by: Darrell at July 30, 2007 8:33 AM
He WAS in bed at 10 ;o)
Posted by: Pen at July 30, 2007 7:15 PM