Off to a great start!

The big day has finally arrived. It is time to start my two month, 10,000 mile U.S. promotional odyssey. The trip will take me along the Eastern Seaboard to Florida, the Deep South, the Mid-West, and then north-east through Canada to sunny Niagara. Not surprisingly, with tons of last minute things to do, I got off to a late start. Such a lot of driving. The weather wasn’t the greatest: I had to contend with snow and freezing rain while driving through Western New York on my way to Pennsylvania.

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Memories of the time I hitch-hiked to the University of North Texas thirty years ago (with my bicycle no less), flooded through my mind. As it got late, I shared the road with lots of eighteen wheelers and there were lots of truck stops along the way. I stopped here and there to refuel and down some coffee. The one main difference I see now, though, is that truckers carry laptops which they plug into data ports extending along the lunch counter. How times change!

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