2022 DC to Philly: Day 9

Oct 8 Saturday- Philly, Washington’s Crossing, and Princeton NJ The previous day had been hot… today was not. 45 or so in the morning, high

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2022 DC to Philly: Day 8

Oct 7 Friday- Philadelphia Warm weather today. We go to Independence Hall and take the tour. The guide is excellent. He knows his history, anecdotes,

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2022 DC to Philly: Day 7

Oct 6 Thursday– Baltimore, Maryland / Wilmington, Delaware, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Finally see the sun, hooray! We go, for our third day in a row,

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2022 DC to Philly: Day 6

Oct 5 Wednesday- DC and Alexandria Last hurrah of Hurricane Ian, destroyer of homes/lives and inconveniencer of vacations. We took the subway up to Arlington

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2022 DC to Philly: Day 4

Oct 3 Monday– DC Light rain all day. Stupid hurricane…Got ourselves some metro passes and took the subway into DC for our Capitol tour. Doesn’t

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2022 DC to Philly: Day 3

Oct 2 Sunday- Charlottesville and Alexandria The original plan was to hike to BlackRock, a peak where one could view the sunrise and the glorious

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Who Pays for What?

I’m reading Maxim Gorky’s The Mother right now.  There is a galvanizing incident in the book where the factory workers are charged by the owners

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“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.”

The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.