Late start yesterday, after a relaxing breakfast with the Goldmans in Charleston. Most of the day spent coming up Interstate 95, with only a few short diversions. Lunch was at the Orchard Cafe in Manning SC. A tuna and a turkey sandwich, best described as ordinary and inexpensive. Dinner at Don Juan Mexican Restaurante in Roanoke Rapids NC, whose food can best be described as ordinary and inexpensive.  We are staying there at a Hampton Inn.

After our lunch, we splurged on a bakery-made chocolate and pistachio bar that can best be described as excellent.  After our dinner, I tried one of the brittles we bought at Georgia Peach World, which can best be described as inedible.

A few more podcasts today. Trying to keep up with the news. I do have a reaction to everything that is going on: AARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!

Not really. That is too mild.

Okay, what else? Oh, yes, we stopped at Buc-ees for the first time. It’s like Costco on the road. I knew nothing about the store at all, except seeing the billboards. But our friend Shelly (last name on request), when we had dinner in Key West, told us about Buc-ees, and told us (believe it or not) that he stops, whenever they pass a Buc-ees, in order to buy several containers of key lime pudding. My own reaction is that Buc-ees is an enormous store filled to the brim with things that, as far as I am concerned, should stay in the store, forever.

And have you read about the reorganization of the news desk at the Washington Post,? I have read several articles about it, and I hardly understand a word of what is being said. It seems that the Post will concentrate on its digital footprint, not the print version. But I don’t know what that means, just as I don’t understand the difference between the political and national desks. If you haven’t heard about this yet, Google the CNN article or any other.

Time for me to watch Rachel Maddow to see what’s new.

AARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!