Wednesday: Woke up quite early. Breakfast wasn't served until 8:00, but they had promised "coffee always" and they had a Keurig set up. I went down there around 7:00 and ... well, the Keurig was there, but no takeout cups or creams. Damn. So I liberated some teabags and went back upstairs. The kitchenette does …
Author: Eric Peterson
Conductor, hornist, singer, business analyst, New Yorker. Happily gay-married. Knit and ice-skate for fun.
Cape Cod, Canal Path
Tuesday: a leisurely morning to get up, blog, get cleaned up, go out and get breakfast, come back and pack. The ferry from Oak Bluffs to Woods Hole was at 10:45, so I left about 10:00. No problem waiting around - the weather has been so lovely I've been spending a ton of time outside, …
Nantucket
I have a lot of constant low-level anxiety and that's not good. Particularly lately, I find myself having to say to myself, out loud, several times a day, "You're not doing anything wrong." Yes, I need therapy, it's on the list, OK. Anyway, one of the promises I made myself was I was not going …
Vineyard Haven, Edgartown
A friend of mine had commented on FB that I should really get an apple fritter from a particular donut shop - she didn't know this, but said shop is mere feet from my hotel, so after morning coffee in the room, I went out and got one. Ate most of it sitting on a …
And we’re off
Well, I'm off. That's part of the point of this trip - it's the first real travel vacation since we went to Spain in 2019. But it's just me and one reason I went here (Martha's Vineyard and Cape Cod) is it's a place that C and I never went to. I've never been at …
Catchup
Behind in my blogging, and so much is going on I'd better just do one big post. It's September 11th. Charles was not a writer, but he was moved to set out his account of what our 9/11 was like. For years, I've posted this on social media with the caption, "Still alive. Still together. …
Summer of AAAUGH
Charles died a week before Memorial Day. That last week became Funeral Week, of course, and then, summer. I knew pretty much instantly that the summer couldn't be 'about' anything but handling, dealing, adjusting, accommodating this enormous sea change. Grieving and mourning has been a constant layer on top of, and splitting focus with... getting …
Road trip, pt. 4
I've left this so long I'm actually on my next trip now. More on that later. So it's now Sunday the 14th and I'm still at Rainbow Mountain. It had been unclear whether they served breakfast, but it turned out that they laid out a continental breakfast in the bistro after 800. I wanted to …
B’kawk
Or "Road Trip (part 3)" Another mostly leisurely morning. I wasn't seeing the K's today. My only solid plan is I needed to end up in East Stroudsburg, PA by mid-afternoon. Van was working at a small outdoor festival in nearby Parksville, for which he'd made the t-shirts. A randomly chicken-themed fair in a field …
Road Trip (Part 2)
As mentioned, we'd been coming off weeks of high-summer weather and 100% humidity, where there was no thought of wearing clothing to get warmer . But here I was in the mountains. I'd brought a couple of long-sleeved t-shirts, a pair of lounge pants and one very light hoodie. It was chilly enough when I …
