September 20, 2017. There is no Harvey here.

  
September 20, 2017.  There is no Harvey here.  We left home yesterday and find ourselves in New Columbia, PA, tonight, roughly 1100 miles into our fall trip.  We are staying in motels.  There is no Harvey here.  He is on the lot of Van City RV Sales in St. Louis.  It is easy to assign a name to a motor home.  It isn't as much fun to name your car.  It simply doesn't have character, you know.  I can tell you that we are driving my no-name MDX.  It does have a collision-avoidance system so maybe we are safer than we were in Harvey.  

I have thought about stopping the blog.  It seems to me that it hasn't been as readable the last several trips.  I think I know why.  I have been writing every night, even when I had nothing to write about.  That makes for a pretty dry read.  

So, I have decided that I will stop the every-day blogging.  I will write when I have something to say that might be of interest to you.  Otherwise, I will be silent.  Deal?  Good.  

We are en route to Bar Harbor, ME.  We will meet Casey and Matt in Portland Saturday morning.  They are taking a cruise and the ship stops in Portland.  We'll sight-see and have lunch somewhere along the coast of Maine.  We will likely take in the Bush Family Compound in Kennebunkport.  The former President once presented me with a Bush 41 golf ball with the Presidential Seal displayed on it. I am pretty proud of that golf ball.  It will never see a golf course.  As I think about it, none of my golf balls see a golf course for very long. They seem to disappear into the weeds or tall grass.  They show a remarkable lack of curiosity about what the rest of the course looks like.  

That's it from Pennsylvania.  I'll talk to you again from Maine.  Goodnight,