Tuesday Tuesday. Late june 2011

Ok. I’m posting from my phone so there’ll be all kinds of correct use of capitalization. Which bothers me. I prefer the ee cummings approach, myself. But I don’t know how to make it stop. My phone, that is. Damn smart phone.

Miss cv is TOTALLY swimming under water now! It’s sooooo cool. All of a sudden things just clicked for her yesterday! And she’s crazy fast with her flippers. It’s soooooo awesome!  Of course, with all the time in these over chlorinated pools my skin is slowly wearing away…

Kent is a cool college town for sure, with a flavor I haven’t seen a while. Not that the days inn right off the highway was much of an indicator, claro. But learning from the previous night’s mistakes (read yesterday’s post) we called around a bit and were pleased and relieved to find that not only can one buy whiskey and the like, but one could do so up until at least ten pm. So after we got checked in and miss cv in the pool, gil set off with the gps programmed for the nearest liquor store.

And guess what.  Guess what!

It was an effing drive-thru liquor store! Gil returned grinning from ear to ear! He’s been bitching about the demise of the drive thru liquor store since right before we moved from new mexico they shut down the last one in albuqurque.  !

Now, there is one sad note to this story. Belugi, our vw eurovan, with her cargo carrier rack, stands 7 feet, 4 inches tall.  Too tall for the lovely drive thru liquor store. But gil persevered! He was enthusiastically invited into the supply room by the proprietor and offered browsing privileges.  Whiskey is still the goal, here, and apparently there was no makers mark, knob creek or even jack daniels.  The proprietor, again quite enthusiastically, sold gil on..saying “my friend, this is the good stuff, my friend.  42proof, see? The good stuff.”

Heck yeah it is.

the good stuff

So kent. The room wasn’t quite as clean as the night before, but Heated outdoor pool, drive thru liquor store, more cotton-tailed wild bunnies, and super nice folks all around goes a long ways.

Xoxo
Coco

monday monday. late june 2011

chowchow yearning

danville, penn. that’s where we are. we were aiming for bellefonte, penn – to a koa there. but after our harrowing night in the berkshires (caused, i guess, by the opening night of the boston symphony at tanglewood, jeff tweedy and his crew, and the need for soooo many people to get married in june), we needed a real bed, bathroom, chairs and walls. so we found a very old skool days inn that feels like the ritz carton after the previous hotel. and for about a third of the cost. kind of disturbing if you think about it. but really, now i’m not saying ridiculous things to miss cv like “don’t touch the floor” or “don’t rub your head on the pillow!” it’s situations like this that give parents a bad name…a heavy dose of concern mixed with insanity tends to cause stupid statements. and some serious eight-year-old eye rolling.

it has an indoor pool, which is awesome and just what we were looking for for miss cv. and i bet this place was pretty swank in the 1950′s/1960′s. the pool atrium is awesome! and they’ve done what they can to maintain it. or keep it clean without remodeling, which just makes it a bit melancholy and way cooler. …

we have a door that opens up from the room right to where our van is parked (see photo)…which makes getting raja and lily to and from a snap. he’s mad at me right now. raja is. he was enjoying looking out the window and people started moving around outside so he started woofing so i closed the curtains and scolded his chowchow head and currently he’s sitting on the other side of the room with his back to me and won’t even respond to my invitation to come back to his post and look around now that i’ve opened the curtains again. sigh.

so the only real issue with this hotel (motor inn) that’s kept it from being one of my top ten ever is you (meaning us) can’t buy a bottle of whiskey in danville on sunday. that was a bit of a heart break. live and learn. we passed many a hi-way side liquor store thus far. from here on out we’ll be better prepared. i have a feeling many of our traveling bard friends would not have found themselves in such a predicament.

OH and another lovely part about danville, penn is the f i r e f l i e s! i haven’t seen fireflies like that since i lived in iowa! it was LOVELY. lots and lots and lots of them rising up just after dark. it was miss cv’s first experience with fireflies like that — maybe gil’s, too! he had lots of questions. mostly why? and how? over and over. so we’ll do a little research later. impromptu homeschooling sessions. the hows and whys of fireflies.

xoxo
coco

Sunday Sunday. Late mid june 2011

Hollowville, NY on our way Bellefonte, PA

Saturday Saturday . Late mid june 2011

We’re on our way…! First stop, amherst mass. Sure it’s almost two pm, but we’re only going a few hours…easing into the road trip.

And left the hogfarm in the able hands of the brownbirdians.

xoxo
coco