This morning on FOX News, it was reported that in Biden's first State of the Union Address to Congress. in addition to pushing his extremely bold and costly spending agenda and not really mentioning the crisis at the boarder, he articulated in no uncertain terms that his administration was going to push made in America or purchased in America which is somewhat redundant; however, it is the same rhetoric that was originally used by Donald Trump about which the Democrats and the liberals would not support...
Many of us should find that ODD INDEED.
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| Destin, Florida |
I am watching FOX News in the breakfast room of Days Inn in Montgomery, Alabama because my wife and I are on our way to a vacation at a private condo with a private beach in Destin, Florida... and driving from TN to this location took us about 5-1/2 hours instead of the 8-1/2 it would have taken if we had driven straight through. As we get older we understand and respect the fact that we can no longer drive long durations without stopping.
I awoke first and decided to have breakfast while my wife continued to sleep which brings me back to the origins of this post.
My breakfast consisted of several cups of coffee which always seems to taste better away from home than at home and a couple of tiny bran muffins that were sprinkled with oats on top. The bran muffins were perfectly cooked and tasted better than most that I have had as I recall... and, while I ate my breakfast, I watched FOX News on the screen mounted on the wall.
The trip to Montgomery was for all intents and purposes uneventful except for a couple of areas where driving through congested cities slow the traffic down a "tad," but for the most part, the vehicles on the interstate drove no slower than 80 mph and most of them were clipping along at 100 mph and wanted you out of their way immediately as they approach you from the rear.
Since we were not in a hurry, I maintained a speed of 75-80 mph which was still 5-10 miles over the posted speed limits while most of my fellow drivers took those posted speed limits to be a suggestion rather than the law.
No matter where we stopped... either at a rest area, a fast food, or a gas station, NO ONE was wearing their facemasks... except us... even though my wife and I have had both our COVID shots and it has been a month since our second one.
This morning we are going to remain at the Days Inn until we have to check out because the rest of our journey is only going to take 3 hours and we cannot check in until 5:00 pm so even if we left at noon, we would still have a 2 hour wait until we can get settled in... knowing that, we decided that we would probably do our grocery shopping while we waited.
This is our first vacation in over a year due to COVID, the 3-4 maybe 5-6 that we normally take each year were cancelled or not booked because of COVID. We are hoping that the weather will be nice on the Gulf Coast.
