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So, Hurricane Earl is still bearing down. I expect we'll see some rain, but not much else. We're too far inland to get much more than a glancing blow.
Very glad I was on vacation at the Delaware Beach LAST week, and not this week. And I have a ton of things to say about vacation, travel, and life in general, but I don't really know where to start. Perhaps with the fact I put 1270 miles on my car in my Adventuring - and it was totally awesome!
The beach house we rented was almost smack dab in the middle of the Delaware coastline. Just north of Rohoboth Beach. And about fifty yards from the water. We spent most of the time while IN the house in the three-season porch, which had a picnic table, two Adirondack chairs, a small occasional table, and three other chairs. We moved in another cushy chair, the kitchen table, three kitchen chairs, and a floor lamp - completely rearranging the space so we had a table to do puzzles on right in front of the wall of windows.
We spent a number of hours out on the beach flying kites (both the ones![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
drvsilla and I brought with us, and two others we purchased at a beach shop), picking up shells and ocean-washed pebbles, taking pictures, and generally goofing off. We also went exploring in Delaware. Not a heck of a lot there but agriculture and beaches. But we did tour Nemours Mansion and Gardens which was the home Alfred du Pont built for his second wife in 1910. It was well worth the $17 each price tag - they really showed a LOT of the house and grounds in the three hours we were there - although I could have used about another half hour wandering the grounds - they are not used to folks who really want to wander as freely and see as much as us.
We played an EPIC game of trivial pursuit - although the original is quite dated now - lots of the answers are now incorrect or OBE (overtaken by events, or obsolete by events) - especially history and geography. But we had fun. And by the end, we all had either all six wedges, or were one short, so we were pretty well matched as well (purestoneworker won!).
We had picnic lunches and home-made dinners, and watched sunrises and sunsets. Saw a double rainbow (what does it MEAN?), and a surprise giant Indian Head in Bethany Beach.
So. Summer vacation over. I am currently looking to get my tickets to Beijing for work. Hopefully I'll have my LOI soon so I can get my travel visa. Which I think I have to send away for (PITA!). Never a dull moment!
Very glad I was on vacation at the Delaware Beach LAST week, and not this week. And I have a ton of things to say about vacation, travel, and life in general, but I don't really know where to start. Perhaps with the fact I put 1270 miles on my car in my Adventuring - and it was totally awesome!
The beach house we rented was almost smack dab in the middle of the Delaware coastline. Just north of Rohoboth Beach. And about fifty yards from the water. We spent most of the time while IN the house in the three-season porch, which had a picnic table, two Adirondack chairs, a small occasional table, and three other chairs. We moved in another cushy chair, the kitchen table, three kitchen chairs, and a floor lamp - completely rearranging the space so we had a table to do puzzles on right in front of the wall of windows.
We spent a number of hours out on the beach flying kites (both the ones
drvsilla and I brought with us, and two others we purchased at a beach shop), picking up shells and ocean-washed pebbles, taking pictures, and generally goofing off. We also went exploring in Delaware. Not a heck of a lot there but agriculture and beaches. But we did tour Nemours Mansion and Gardens which was the home Alfred du Pont built for his second wife in 1910. It was well worth the $17 each price tag - they really showed a LOT of the house and grounds in the three hours we were there - although I could have used about another half hour wandering the grounds - they are not used to folks who really want to wander as freely and see as much as us. We played an EPIC game of trivial pursuit - although the original is quite dated now - lots of the answers are now incorrect or OBE (overtaken by events, or obsolete by events) - especially history and geography. But we had fun. And by the end, we all had either all six wedges, or were one short, so we were pretty well matched as well (
purestoneworker won!).We had picnic lunches and home-made dinners, and watched sunrises and sunsets. Saw a double rainbow (what does it MEAN?), and a surprise giant Indian Head in Bethany Beach.
So. Summer vacation over. I am currently looking to get my tickets to Beijing for work. Hopefully I'll have my LOI soon so I can get my travel visa. Which I think I have to send away for (PITA!). Never a dull moment!
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I'm already all nostalgic reading over your brief briefing. Such good times! :D
Like that bit. But not that bit.
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