Traveling Down I-5 or "This is no place for children or dogs"

I was so happy not to have little children with me when traveling on I-5 last sunday. It seems I had decided to start our trip back to Alabama on the busiest travel day of the year. There was lots of bumper to bumper traffic. The rest stops were full of people traffic jammed to get in.

Thanks Paul and Andrea for the Tip about Kettleman. We stopped there for the In and Out. If we had not stopped there we would have starved!! Poor people coming from Southern California could not hardly get off that exit.

At Kettleman I watched people take their dogs out of the car to do their business on big hills of construction dirt.

Reboot of the Brain

http://builderhouse.blogspot.com/

This is a new blog I am working on. I decided I would organize all the house renovations into one place. We moved into this house full of $9.00 lighting fixtures and cheap $1.75 a yard carpet, miserable thin vinyl floors etc. almost 10 years ago. So I am going to put everything together in the new blog.

I worked for years in Information Technology with all kinds of technical stuff. This blog formatting is driving me crazy so I will be working on that as I add to the builder house blog.

Anyway, feel free to follow!!!!

When I go to the Home

I am just going to put this out there so maybe someone will remember. When I go to live at the old folks home I would like the following:

1. A window, with the drapes and blinds open.
2. Wi-fi
3. A laptop
4. The complete set of the Beatles playing continously

I guess I spend tooo much time at the Assisted Living place.

Train Station, what Train Station

This is where the passenger train station once stood. It was torn down a few years ago to make way for some condo development. The passenger train service stopped after Katrina. The tracks were repaired but the passenger train never came back.

The Train station had two entrances and two waiting rooms. That is because way back when there was a white waiting room and a black waiting room. Hard to believe.

That parking garage was built for the Carnival Cruise ship Holiday. It worked quite nicely until the Holiday was replaced by a bigger ship. Now guess what, not enough parking!! The over flow has to park in an outside lot about 1/2 mile away and let me tell you in the summer, cars outside cook.

I went down to the River and what did I see

Not only is there a permanent sign that the restroom is out of order, the park is locked up tighter than a drum. What is wrong with this city. They lock the river away from their own people. Just Ducky.

Across the River I saw this ship. This ship put a lot of people to work.

California Here I Come - YEHAAAA

I think this is appropriate transportation don't you??? I am getting out the map and lining up all the campgrounds for the trip. Heck, I even put my initials on my house. I am also reading up on the latest waste disposal procedures. Oh, and getting the wireless router set up for the trailer. Home Sweet Home on the road.

South Beach Diet

As my husband says: "We" are on the South Beach Diet, and have been for a couple of weeks. Well today I had some REALL caffinated coffee and tonight we both went and loaded up on mexican food. I feel like the energizer bunny. I may not sleep until tommorow.