Got out with Muni about 9:30 am.  Took his kids with 2 cars down to the NY Aquarium.  Got us in for free and got our car parked for free besides.  Saw a great show with the sea lions and exhibits that hadn't been damaged by Typhoon Sandy.  That's what Muni is doing as he is one of the architects involved with fixing and redesigning the damage done to the aquarium.  After the aquarium went to coney island and to Nathan's though neither Reed nor I thought the hot dogs were all they're cracked up to be.

After Coney Island we got in the car and headed to Washington and cousin Ry.  Been having a great time with him since we got here about 7.

Left Herb's about 10.  An hour to Boston and we toured the campus at Eastern Nazarene College.  Very small compact campus but I liked it.   The coach here already said that he's recruited someone else but I wanted to see the campus anyway as I'd thought about it so much.  From there on to Muni Abdullah's and family in New Rochelle NY just north of NYC.  They invited us to stay so I twisted Reed's arm again to do a concert.  They have a daughter who's 17 and a babe so it didn't take too much twisting.

Hung out with brother Herb and lovely partner Mae.  Mae was feeling much better today and I apologized for our rude entrance in to her life.  Decided to stay around another day as Eric was going to go busking (a term meaning playing music/entertaining on the street) in possibly Portland ME and Reed wanted to see that and hang out with Eric some more.  We all went up to Portsmouth ME, had dinner and walked around the tourist part of town and as that was on the way to Portland.  Lively place.  The busking never came together and we headed back to Danville.

Left Ray and Sandee's  and headed for Vermont.  Checked out Castleton SC, then St Joseph's and later Kean State.  Afterwards found my brother Herb in the metropolis of Danville NH.  Cute story though not so cute for Herb's girlfriend.  We're fine and staying up with Herb and his son, Reed's cousin, Eric.  Big good looking kid at 6'5" 230#.  More later.


So we come in to this tiny town called Danville NH.  As we're going by some houses we see one that says Wellness Yoga and looks real funky.  I turn around the car and Reed says "You're going back there?"  I said Yeah that's either Herb's house or they'll know where Herb lives.  We go back.   A big red pickup in the front.  Kind of a combination barn/house.  but nobody there.  Reed finds a card on the door and sure enough, it's Herb's house.  Things are open but nobody answers.  After ten minutes or so we leave and go down the road to see if anybody in town knows anything as the town is so small everybody has to know everybody else.  Find a guy who know's Herb but he couldn't understand my accent for a few moments.  Says that's Herb's truck and he should be around, maybe back in the woods.  We go back.  Herb is still not around but now we're getting more inquisitive and looking in windows etc.  I'm just about to go in the house to see if he's hurt or something and he comes home in another car.  Seems his girlfriend is really sick.  She's been texting him about two guys who are looking all around the house.  He's not sure of course what or who he's going to find.  Everything worked out but will be a great story that certainly will get embellished in coming years.

Easy day with a concert

Not much going on today as we just hung out with Ray and Sandee.  Volunteered Reed to do a concert for dinner so Sandee called another couple to come over and the concert was held.  A good time was had by all.  Tomorrow we look at colleges in Vermont and New Hampshire.  We'll also see if we can find my brother Herb if we get that far into NH.

First off Belta called about 2:30 in the morning.  Seems Reed is getting some offers.  Talked to her for a bit about the offers, and told her about our plans etc.  She called back an hour later and we agreed that the plan would be to finish the trip, go back to Guam, and then possibly make plans to relocate to LA if attractive enough.

Then took off early and got on I-90.  Did stop and see Genesee Community College in Batavia NY.   Nice place but Reed said not for him.  Made Sandee and Ray Greene's house  (friends from college) about 6pm.

For some reason couldn't load the blog post yesterday although there wasn't much.  We pretty much drove all day fro Osseo Wisconsin to Ft Wayne Indiana.  Met some friends from Guam in the early days--Frank Baughman and then we stayed at exwife Sally's house.

Today we drove to the Pro Football Hall of Fame and got there in the later afternoon.  Reed told me that his sinuses were bothering him and the day before he had a bunch of green stuff sneezed up so I took him to a clinic.  It took a while but we got some antibiotics and OTC medicine for him.

So then the plan was to get as close as we could to the colleges we wanted to visit--Genosse Community College, SUNY Brockport, and SUNY  Cortland.  These are all big PE schools.  Outside of Cleveland though the rain was bad, Reed wasn't feeling all that well and it was getting late so found a Motel 6 and we called it a day.