Franklinsanity
A crank's musings on family, drink, travel, food & life
Category: D-Day+10
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3:38 pm New Britain, CT – relaxing poolside with one of Tom Devers’ Coors Lights, helpfully racked into the nearby cabana. It’s not an IPA, but man, it tastes great. The car’s mostly unpacked. Kingsley is passed out, inside in the air conditioning. Oonagh’s outside playing with Louie, Uncle Sean’s lady friend’s spaniel. And by…
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9:30 am, outside Monroe Township, NJ: Well, it took about 10 days and several thousand miles, but Awesome Wife and I finally had enough of a blowout that both kids – and probably the dogs, too, in their doggy way – asked us to stop fighting. Every epic journey has its moments. Ours came even…
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8:30 am, Philadelphia, PA. We’re getting good at this packing thing. Have I mentioned the Sher-Pak (TM)? Yes, I think I have. It’s great, if you want to have the option of moving pieces of luggage around, independent of the whole. You can’t lock it, but when its fully battened down, short of taking a…