Hello,
Sorry for the week of silence. Last week I was feeling very uninspired, and wasn't managing to do anything particularly well. In fact, I made little progress on any task I set out for myself, from writing to looking for more paid work to cleaning house.
Oh, well. It's a new week, and this weekend my husband and I drove to Leesburg, Virginia to go to a wedding. Our route there took us south through Pennsylvania - through Bethlehem, then Allentown, then Hershey, and then through Gettysburg and down into Virginia.
I hadn't set foot in Pennsylvania for years - possibly since the early 90s. No, that's not true - I went to Philadelphia a couple times for work, but those trips were Amtrak to taxi to meetings to taxi to Amtrak. Besides, going to Philadelphia does not show you the Pennsylvania countryside, which I thought was beautiful - very pastoral, with gently rolling hills in all directions. Northern Virginia was equally lovely. The area we were in had many vineyards, and it was also very exciting to drive by all of the horse farms! With their rolling pastures and wooden fences, they still look just like the Maryland horse farm that Elizabeth Taylor lives on in the 1956 movie Giant (which, by the way, is quite a soap opera).
It made me think that the next time I'm craving a weekend away, I should consider driving south, not north, as I also noted that the prices for decent lodging are about half what they are in New England. I wish I had taken more pictures, but I couldn't as I spent most of both days clutching the wheel. These two were taken on Saturday at the Hillsborough Vineyards, where the wedding took place.
Now though I feel that I am ready for a big "detox," after driving for two days and eating nothing but heavy food... including my first meal ever at Cracker Barrel. 80% of the people eating there looked to me to be clinically overweight, and I knew how it happened when the waitress arrived with my pancakes (three, each as big as a salad plate, with an ice-cream scoop worth of butter on top).
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