Monthly Archives: July 2009
Last day in New York…
Today is our last full day in New York.
And besides going out for lunch at a local deli and running some errands, we just hung around the rig and got ready to travel tomorrow.
We went by the local True Value hardware store after lunch to pick up some shipping tape and a toggle switch for a upgrade I want to do to our Electrical Management System box. It was interesting to find that this was more of an old time General Store, than just a hardware store. They sold clothes, shoes, and other general merchandise, too. It was a neat place to just walk around in.
On to Connecticut tomorrow.
Up, Up, and Not Away!
Today was to be our last day here in Florida, NY, but we decided to stay an extra day, so we won’t be leaving until Thursday now.
In the morning, I installed the latest board that my Electrical Management System company sent me, and this one seems to have fixed the problem. We’ll see.
After having lunch at Chumley’s, a local BBQ restaurant, we drove about 40 miles over to West Nyack, NY to see the animated movie ‘UP’. We drove that far because it was the only theater in the area still showing it.
We both really enjoyed ‘UP’. It was very well done, and not predictable. And it will bring a tear to your eye.
The mall where we went to the movie is called Palisades Center, and is the 10th largest mall in the US. I think it’s the largest mall we’ve seen.
It’s 4 stories tall, 5 if you include the underground parking garage, and contains a lot of stores you don’t see in an enclosed mall, but usually only in standalone buildings, like Best Buy, Burlington Coat Factory, Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Home Depot.
It also has a 21 theater cinema, an IMAX theater, an ice skating rink, a Ferris Wheel, and a double-decker carousel.
We got back home about 5 pm, only to have the park power go off about 30 minutes later. Apparently a car hit a power pole down the road.
The power was off for about 45 minutes, and even when it came back on, the voltage was only about 105 volts.
Hopefully it will be better tomorrow morning. This low voltage can be hard on the AC’s.
Later…
