A Driving Day

Day one is coming to a tranquil conclusion in the modest but pleasant accommodations of a Sleep Inn Hotel on the southern city limits of Richmond, Virginia. Our wheels began rotating southward at 4:00 a.m. and left all serious sign of snow shortly after entering New Jersey. No snow visible whatsoever in Virginia. We left with our car's thermometer registering -14 degrees and parked here with a reading of +5.

While traveling along the Washington Beltway I received a cell call from a customer, a branch of the Government, and conversed with him hands free using my GPS connected to the phone by Bluetooth. It worked well except for the fact that the sound was set a tad too low. So I crouched toward the GPS unit to hear better, accidentally setting off the turn indicator and the windshield wipers and I'm not sure what else.

We made a pit stop at a tourist info center in Occoquan, Virginia, a picturesque, antique-looking town, very beautifully maintained and with a distinct artsy flavor. I attach a photo of the Info Center and another of some buildings across the street from it.