Greetings from Pennsylvania!

Kathleen and I arrived in Philadelphia late in the evening of the 19th. Our connecting flight out of Minneapolis was held up by twenty minutes, and upon arriving in Philly we were held up by National Car Rental for at least an hour......so much for their "Emerald Club". My employer has a corporate discount arrangement with them which saved us over $200 as compared to Avis, and in return I think we got over $200 worth of aggravation. I guess I could have gone with Hertz, but I have an aversion to them. I know it sounds silly, but it's due to O.J. Simpson having once been a spokesman for them.

We haven't had too much of a chance to play "tourist". Kathleen has had a lot of personal business in Abington to deal with and we've also been busy visiting with our relatives. We were up at my cousin's place in Slate Hill NY, and from there we drove to Harrisburg PA. We took in Hersheypark on Monday, and yesterday we spent some time in the Amish country of Lancaster County.

We are now in Willow Grove PA, and beginning tonight we will stay with another cousin of mine in Havertown until we leave Monday morning. I'm not sure we will get to the tourist sites in Philly or not. Kathleen used to live in Abington and me, I've visited Philly several times.

As for Amish country, I've seen that before too but I wanted to see it again. The area is beautiful and the food is good. We ate at the Stoltzfus Deli in Intercourse and that sausage sandwich that I had was excellent. I can see some rationale in how they live: they don't have to worry about corporate downsizing or their jobs being outsourced overseas.

Starting Out

OK, now I've done it. I have created this blog, although I don't think I will get to posting anything soon as that I am leaving for a two week trip tomorrow morning. But what the hey, I figured that I should at least get some sort of placeholder put here so that I can come back to it later. And who knows, maybe I'll post something while I am on the road.

I'm not exactly sure what I will do with this at this point in time. I already have a blog on my personal website, but that doesn't come up in any Google searches. So why did I start this one?

It's like this. Sometimes I wonder whatever happened to so and so, and I run Google searches on them. Sometimes I learn what they're up to and other times I don't. So I was thinking, what if someone from the past who knew me, googles me? They know I'm not the guy who works for the state of Wyoming who is also named Dave Mosier or the guy who wrote the book on bicycles who is also named Dave Mosier. They're instead looking for a former satellite engineer who once lived in San Jose, who is now a circuit card engineer in Tucson, Arizona.

So, if you're one of those who wondered whatever happened to me, and you've happened to find me, drop me a line, and let me know what you've been up to.