I'm here in Mechanicsburg, PA, getting ready for a training that I will be helping my friend/co-worker Dinah give tomorrow. We flew in yesterday, arriving in Baltimore around 11:00 p.m. Since then, we've been driving through Maryland and Pennsylvania, looking for someplace to eat that does not remind us overwhelmingly of California (i.e. Subway, Burger King, McDonalds, Taco Bell, etc.).

The conclusion we've come to is that Pennsylvanians make just enough money to buy really great houses and lots of holiday decorations, but not enough to go out to eat in a place where sitting down is encouraged. This may be due to their religious beliefs, supported by a minimum of 5-8 churches per town, even in places where there are only 5-8 houses. Despite our exclamations of "we can't find any place to eat in this godforsaken land!" this is obviously NOT a land forsaken by God. No way, Jose. Tonight's dinner was at The Beef and Reef, a good and god fearing place.

This may also explain why no one in either state seems to own a dryer, and yesterday was laundry day as we saw laundry draping lines from Baltimore to Mechanicsburg (and we took the long way around).

I need to re-enter information now that I've entered 6 times already. Isn't technology great???

BTW
Pennsylvania is the home of Three Mile Island. The cooling tanks on the horizon were our first clue. We decided that we'd wait to take a swim.