(including 1 MUSEUM!)
Up and at-em. Everybody is driving at 76 mph (122 kilometers-per-hour) up here - that's really kind-of aggressive. I hit the Border at 7:30
8:30 Tim Horton's coffee, and then the rain came.
And then it was just down I-90 East/the New York State Thruway. Saw some FUN stuff:
I realized that I had time to stop by The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, about 50 miles west of Albany. I got there at 11:45
I have visited here twice before - Nov. 2014 and April 2018. Their extensive Winslow Homer collection (7 oils, 13 watercolors) include:
"The Pumpkin Patch (Husking)", 1878 watercolor:
"Watching the Breakers: A High Sea", 1896 oil
"Shepherdess and Sheep", c. 1878 oil:
It was a nice stop on my way home. Then I got to MASSACHUSETTS:
I was "planning" to be home between 3 and 4 PM. I don't know when "rush hour" DEVOLVED so much, but at 3:20 I was on 128 North in Waltham, in stop-and-go traffic:
I was home at 4:30!! 14 separate states (repeated MA and NY) - 6571 miles! Thank You God for this GREAT ADVENTURE!
Driving music today:
Joni Mitchell - Miles of Aisles, 1974 double live album (sides 2,3 and 4 today)
(Joni is from Canada.)
lyrics: "A Case of You":
On the back of a cartoon coaster
In the blue TV screen light
I drew a map of Canada
flat landscape, lots of fog, and because I'm still in Canada:
Neil Young - Zuma, 1975
Nice getting chills at 7:08 in the morning, listening to "Cortez the Killer".
Led Zeppelin - Presence, 1976
Ian Hunter - Short Back 'n' Sides, 1981
"Central Park n' West" is a Great Rock Song, and "Rain" is really good, too.
Loggins & Messina - Sittin' In, 1971
fun "Loggins & Messina"/"Poco" story: back in the Fall of 1973, my sister Cary was a freshman up at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. They had Poco playing up there (after Jim Messina had left Poco in October 1970) on Sunday Nov. 18, 1973, and she invited me up to see it. Good show, and I drove back to Philly that night. Two weeks later I saw Loggins & Messina at The Spectrum in Philadelphia on Friday Nov. 30, 1973. I want to say that a bunch of us lightweight oarsmen then went out to Upper Darby, PA (end of the Philadelphia subway system) the next night and saw Poco - and I swear that I saw Jim Messina in the wings, watching his old bandmates. Unfortunately, he did not join them on-stage. Fun memory.
Billy Joel - Songs in the Attic, 1981 live album
Stevie Nicks - The Wild Heart, 1983 second album
Lionel Richie - Dancing on the Ceiling, 1986 single
various artists - Footloose, 1984 soundtrack
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns, 1975
The Hollies - Greatest Hits, 1967
I bought this album!
Billy Joel - An Innocent Man, 1983
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