Monday, December 25: Christmas @ Sellersville 🎄

Today we got up at the Dorchester. We  exchanged gifts 🎁 and ate breakfast. After we eat breakfast, we got ourselves ready to head out to Sellersville near Lansdale exit of the Turnpike. Getting the car from under the garage was not nearlyas hard as getting it there because the guy knew what he was doing. There’s three levels to the parking garage at the Dorchester and there are a lot of nice looking expensive cars parked there as well. Once we got the car, we zoomed out to the Schuylkill to 476 and the turnpike. Mary had a transponder so that should save some money. We got a bar in pretty good time in about a half hour. We visited her mom at her assisted-living place which is very nice. We had a nice lunch. That was cheap as mom got it free because it was Christmas and our meal was only 16 bucks each. Which is a really good deal for what we got. It’s 1:39 PM. We’re getting ready to head back to her place and then possibly visit friends of hers for dessert and then we’ll have a late late dinner because we’re both pretty stuffed from lunch this time. We decided that we would go to Bethlehem instead and visit hotel Bethlehem, which is really festive place. My friend TC took me there years ago and I wanted to show Mary this. It was only 38 minutes away from Sellersvilleso we drove up 309 straight up to Allentown then we diverted off to Bethlehem. We really enjoyed that place. It was really cool. I wrote to TC that we were there and he thought it was pretty cool. We then went to Mary’s alma mater Muhlenberg College. That’s located now in town so we went to Allentown and check that place out . It was interesting to see it. I never been there. She was pretty pleased to actually see her alma mater for the first time in years. After we roam around there for a bit 

it was starting to get dark so we headed back down to Philly. We stopped in West Philly and we were invited to go somewhere but not till 630 so we had an hour to kill so I gave my grand West philly tour or at least part of it visiting 49th St.  Showing both places I live with the Nadine showing the old dog park and Mary showed me where she

lived on Farragut Street so in 

1991 Mary lived on Farragut Street right around the corner from where I lived at 4623 Spruce.  That was really interesting. We stopped @ CVS. We got some food went to the restroom and  then headed to

West philly 


to meet her friend Eileen and her husband. Eileen wrote a book called mother and the manager. Which is about codependency. It’s now says 8:00 PM.    

to head back to her place in Dorchester and have some we met a nice couple that Mary knows.  They are very nice. We had a nice conversation at delicious pumpkin pie 

with ready whip. It was quite pleasing I must say better than I thought it might be. So it’s been a very busy day and a very good day. I just found out 
the Eagles 🦅 beat the Giants 33 to 25 just now. That sounds like a real nailbiter of a game for sure. The game just ended and it ended at the Eagles three

 game losing streak. That and Dallas is lost to Miami yesterday the Eagles have sole possession of first place in the NFC East. anyhow, it’s now the week between Christmas and

 New Year’s coming right up. Already before we had our delicious hot stuffed peppers, we saw like a misty fog go over these buildings which was really cool. Mary has four of them left. They are so good.

Sunday, October 24: A Trip to Jim Thorpe Pa

Well I got myself up a little bit earlier so I could take care of business feed the cat etc. I had a 

little bit of cereal and then after all that I barely caught the 109 bus out towards 

Chester. I had to stop doing that. Anyhow the bus trip went smoothly



 it went through Lansdowne Clifton Heights and then Springfield. I got

 the best service on the rental car place. I was seeing right away the car 

was available right away and it was clean. I then took a very scenic route from the car rental place and also filled up with gas it was 348 a gallon which is now considered 


very cheap.  I got to the Ardmore House a Rental and 15 heard the call of mother nature and then got ready to try to head out sooner than 

later. It’s now 11:38 AM. And it’s getting ready and I’m updating Yesterdays blog posting and also this posting as well. It is mostly cloudy and cool. I’m hoping the 

rain will hold off. It’s now 12:01 PM. And it’s still cloudy and hopefully 

will be out of here by 12:30 PM. Did you know that SEPTA might have a strike soon yeah the day the union authorized

 a strike. The previous contract ends November 1, 2021. The last strike was in 2016. That lasted 6 days. 
God I hope they don’t go on strike. It doesn’t


 affect the regional rail so hopefully if they do go on strike they don’t go on strike
 till 

after  November 1 when I leave for California. We drove up street to the 

turnpike and it was a smooth ride. It didn’t rain which was nice. We arrived in the first went to the Jim Thorpe Memorial Park it was a tiny little area with a couple statues and plaques indicating

 the life and Times of Jim Thorpe. We went to the downtown area of the place and it was pretty nice we saw some cool old 
buildings in an abandoned church and some other 

novelties. I Sworl old abandon mill and some other cool things. I took a lot 

of pictures because there are things you see here that you don’t see 

background from. We then after that decided take a rest and I went to a place called 

Tommy’s steaks and subs and we both picked up some food to go. We got to go pick there’s so many people in there nobody was wearing mask so you really 

can’t eat in there. What is 430 and it’s not nearly as crappy as it was when we were 
last in there. What are the 
suns trying to peek out now and the Eagles are leading the Oakland Raiders seven nothing in the first. All I saw was an injured player. They’re playing shiny happy
 people on while I’m waiting. For my order. We ended up 

eating there because there were a lot less people hovering around the hoagie place. Tommy’s hoagies that is. The sandwich is really good and hit the spot  Real good. In 

between there we got to see a lot of sites. Later on after we ate we laughed and we saw the touristy part of Jim Thorpe 
Yea with the 

train and the cool looking train station. There was also a cute looking building it was extremely scenic. 
We must’ve approached Jim Thorpe another 

way because I don’t remember seeing it coming in. We ended up driving the Hyundai

 and it acted funny with its gears and I got tired behind the wheel so Lynne had to drive the rest of the way home. We got home around
8 PM. We watched a movie called King 
of hearts. It’s another movie with Alan Bates. He’s a Shakespearean kind of actor he’s very big in any all these British informed
films of Europe. I wonder what he’s like in a 



movie like an unmarried woman with Jill Clayburgh. This is the mid 70s relationship movies. Anyhow it was quite a day for sure