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How Clean Is Your Abode? Road Trips and the Love Connection Earlier this month, I cleaned my house when TazBoss51000 drove over to meet me for coffee. It only took me 30 minutes because my house was not that Messy to begin with. Yesterday, I drove to his house and we are going to Montecello. (Thomas Jefferson's Former Abode) Yea Ha!!!! He warned me about his house. It's not messy as I anticipated. Nevertheless...........It will take more than 30 minutes to make it sparkle. I'll start with his bathroom.  I advised him that I am not a Domestic Goddess but at least we won't have to hire a maid.I bet Thomas Jefferson's house has an entire Housekeeping Staff and Gardeners too.  I was on the Cell Phone with TazBoss as he gave me directions to his house. Interstate 64 past Charlottesville toward Richmond to the Zion Crossing Exit - Left toward Orange to Holly's Tavern where he would meet me. Sounds simple but I did a Google Map as well. I can be directionally challenged, I had a half tank of gas, fourteen dollars cash and about ten dollars in the back. Getting lost in Virginia would not be a good thing. I googled with my WallyWorld Job site as the Starting Point and ended with Holly's Tavern and added Tazboss's House as an additional destination. The Map looked Easy - Exit 14 to Exit 121 toward Richmond and exit 136 to the Tavern. It started to rain. I thought to myself. I must be nuts but here we go. I started counting the mile markers. Exit 26 is Clifton Forge. If I wanted to go to Roanoke - that is where I would turn. Pass Maurry River where the Quakers gather to 50ish mile Markers - Lexington where the mortal remains of Stonewall Jackson, Robert E Lee and his Traveller reside. About 15 miles out of Lexington, the mile markers suddenly jumped ahead and I I was heading toward the 200 mile markers. Gasp! I hope I didn't take the wrong turn off. A sign said I-64 East so I kept going. Tazboss called. I generally don't like using my cellphone while driving but if the alternative was getting lost............... I was about 12 miles from Stanton. I was doing okay, he assured me. Once I reached Stanton - I saw Exit 221 toward Richmond and suddenly the mile makers were lower numbers like they were suppose to be. I passed Charlottesville and noted there was a Sign to Martha Jefferson Hospital. Dang, a hospitial named for a First Lady. Except she didn't survive long enough to be the First Lady. Too bad they don't name a Hospital for Sally Hemmings. By all rights, she should have been declared the First Lady. Instead, she's buried under the Hampton Inn Parking Lot in Charlottesville. It doesn't seem fair but Life on Life's Terms. Oh Well, I reached Exit 136 to Zion Crossing and headed for the Big Orange. Yea Ha!!!!! TazBoss's Abode. I am looking forward to utilizing his hot tub with him in it.  Abracadabra  |
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7/24/2008 10:44 am |
I can only imagine what it would be like to be a US tourist driving in Quebec where all the signs are in French only. The worst example I saw of how deceptive that can be was on the bridge exiting Montreal towards the Quebec-New York border. The sign said E.U., meaning 'Etats Unis', the French for United States. I wonder how many people got lost because of that. Fortunately someone eventuall came to their senses and it was changed to 'USA'.
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