bareks journey through life

              So today was a really good day. The kind of day that is  why I travel. In the morning I went to DJ's for breakfast- it was really good. I had Sunnyside up  with sausage and home fries and a biscuit and gravy. All of it was excellent. I then went to the Coast guard academy and went to the  museum .It was okay and involved a lot of reading and  not so many exhibits. It was interesting that there was no bookstore or gift store . I then drove around the academy which looked pretty cool. I would  have liked to done a tour but they did not have one, unlike other service academies . I still have to go to the Air Force academy to complete visiting all of  the service academy's.            I then went to the Lyman Allen art museum which was excellent: really good presentation .A small museum but more than a decent .I spent over an hour and a half -they had some very interesting stuff and ...

               So I felt that a October break was necessary for my general peace of mind and part of my transition to less work and  more travel. Originally I tried to convince  Wendy to take off the week and go to Chicago and back ,but she was reluctant to do so for variety of reasons. I originally planned on  going to Gettysburg and  Altoona but the weather did not cooperate. As the weather front was going from west to east, I decided to go east .I  ended up going to New London ,Connecticut. On Tuesday I took the day off and pretty much worked on eBay, relaxed and went to see Dune which was excellent.                On Wednesday I left around 11:00 in order to avoid rush hour which worked out ,as previously the Google maps was showing delays .However  as I drove up to the Tappan zee there were no delays at all. It was pretty much smooth driving most of the way with only a very...