Scattered Thoughts . . .

O n our last journey to Ohio on Amtrak with Lukey and Kenzie, we spent a little bit of time in Manhattan, both coming and going on our journey.  We had a layover in Manhattan going each way so we could transfer from one Amtrak route to another.  This allowed us to walk around a little bit and to get some "real"  pizza each time we were there.  Honestly, the pizza alone is worth the nightlong layover! This first photo, below, shows us in Penn Station's subway corridors.  This part of Penn Station has not yet been renovated (Penn Station is undergoing a decade-long, much-needed renovation) so it is still the same dark and dirty place it has been for many decades.  We also encountered some problems here at the beginning of our trip.   Naturally, we had planned for either Sheila or me to pay for the subway tickets so we had both of our phones all set up already in anticipation of having to pay.  The current way you pay for the subway is electroni...

O ur first visit to the Air Force Museum with Lukey and Kenzie was a rather short visit to see the Memorial Park ( see this blog entry here ) and the Wall of Honor ( see this blog entry here ) which are both outdoors.  On this second visit we planned to spend the entire day inside the museum.  The forecast was calling for heavy thunderstorms in the afternoon so we chose this day for this museum knowing we could easily spend the entire day inside where it was dry and safe from lightning.   This museum is huge spanning through four immense hangars so there is a lot to see here.  Actually, one could easily spend a few days at this museum not mere hours.  I've been here countless times before so I knew the spots to visit with the kids.   We did pick up our pace significantly in some areas that I knew would not interest the kids so we could get through the museum in a single day.   Although it made our schedule even tighter on this day, we c...