I used to love to travel. Before 9-11. Before we were required to check in a month before the plane leaves and twiddle our thumbs waiting to board- and then finding our flight delayed yet another hour or so.
Well, we’ve been spending a lot of time these past two weeks dealing with the abandonment of logic and science by adults. So, today would be a good day to discuss one of the craziest delusions of the bunch-paraskevidekatriaphobia and it’s related delusion- triskadekaphobia. What are these? Fear of Friday the 13th and the number 13, in general.
Sometimes, it’s just nice to kick back and reminisce. Which is why my Shabat (Friday night) dinners are so important to me. Because that’s the one time each week that my friends (and, when they were younger- and around- my children’s friends) come over for dinner, spending hours discussing past events, politics, science, technology… all the things in life that matter.
Continue reading It can be done…
Many of you know I grew up in Greater New York City. Where Robert Moses transformed the area to produce a plethora of roads and bridges. But, even with all that building, traveling was tough. The Southern State Parkway (which was the backyard of my childhood home) opened in 1927. This four lane, 25 miles long, parkway started with tolls providing access to New York City for those on the Southern reaches of Long Island. It became 8 lanes (city line to the Hempstead Lake State Park) and six lanes thereafter before I was 10. The tolls disappeared sometime after I left the area.
Continue reading Company causes this misery!
We know that the shortest distance between any two points is a straight line. So, it’s easy to pick the most logical route when we want to travel from point A to point B. It gets a little tougher if we want to factor in traffic concerns, buying gas at the lowest prices, etc.
Continue reading The Shortest Distance