March 15th

While driving home from Jay’s house today, I was reflecting on the horrible shootings in New Zealand. Rachel and I visited our nephew Andy there three years ago, and it seemed like one of the happiest and most tolerant nations in the world. Unfortunately, there is no refuge from hate today.

So I finished the prologue of my trip and it turned out to be a good try run from the main segment of my trip that begins tomorrow morning. I learned that I have to keep my phone charged during the day in the car and charge my iPod at night if I want to listen to it while driving the next day. And I’ve gotten into a pretty good routine in the evening – dinner at a local restaurant, check into the motel, fill out my travel journal and blog and try to go to sleep between 10:00 and 11:00. Also, the new travel bag Emily and Glen gave me at my party worked great and I’m going to put in a week’s worth of clothes at a time and just bring that bag in with me every night.

I came back today for the Purimspiel tonight and that was a lot of fun. I will send out a note when the videotape is available for viewing on the synagogue’s website.

2:25

I’ll Be Back (Remastered 2009)

The song of the day is “I’ll be back” by the Beatles. I am at my home computer so I hope I have attached the link. In addition, there are the 46 songs on the soundtrack from “Hamilton”