Bus Trip to Philly, ATL City, NYC, Washington and Back!

On September 7, along with some 40 others in the Geriatric Ward, June and I boarded the Midnight Sun bus and headed north to a week's trip to Henderson, NC, Atlantic City, Philadelphia, the Big Apple, Washington, DC, and home again. What a ride (sore butt and all). Really, it was better than I expected. The company was great, the food tolerable, and some places--St. Paul's Chapel, across from Ground Zero, in NYC and my second visit to Independance Hall--well worth the stopping. I got lots of travel-time to read (finished, for example, Graham Greene's The Comedians and got well into Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamozov). All told, a good week on the road.

PS: At the Atlantic City casino, I lost nary a dime; in fact, the joint gave me $25 and I promptly spent it in a good book store one block away, getting a dandy used copy of John C. Miller's Alexander Hamilton: Portrait in Paradox. What a deal!