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Durin's Day 2011

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:41:02 -0500

'Then what is Durin's Day?" asked Elrond.

'The first day of the dwarves' New Year,' said Thorin, 'is as all should know the first day of the last moon of Autumn on the threshold of Winter. We still call it Durin's Day when the last moon of Autumn and the sun are in the sky together. But this will not help us much, I fear, for it passes our skill in these days to guess when such a time will come again.'

It appears that Durin's Day in 2011 was in late November, toward the threshold of Winter.

Winter itself starts on December 22nd, 2011 at 0530 UTC, with the next new moon on the 24th. That means that the "last moon of Autumn" is about a month earlier, on November 25th at 0110 EST (for my location).

For Saturday, November 26th, the sun sets (for my location) at 1659 (4:59 pm) and the moon sets at 1829 (6:29 pm). The moon on that day and time is 3% illuminated (waxing crescent). If it had been clear, it would have been a great time to observe Durin's Day.

The folks at Moon Watch seem to agree.

Durin's Day for 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Eagle/Cub Scout License Plates

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:05:30 -0500

As many of you know, I'm a Den Leader in Cub Scouting and an Eagle Scout from the 1980's. So it shouldn't come as a surprise to learn that I have a Cub Scout blue Honda Fit with some pretty Scout-y license plates. I just reregistered my plates with Oplates.com and discovered that they have a web service that takes your license plate background, adds your license plate number to the foreground and produces a GIF. The first one they gave me was pretty small, but I tinkered with the URL and produced a big one. Pretty sweet!

Secure Web Console: HP J3591A

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 10:13:57 -0500

This may not be relevant to many of you reading this blog but I have found one of the few remaining copies of the user manual for the HP J3591A, also known as the HP Secure Web Console, or SWC. I've had one of these HP J3591A devices for years but without the user manual, it was kind of useless as the setup process is quite arcane. It's a nice little device, about the size of a VCR/VHS tape with a 10Mb ethernet port and a serial connector for your serial TTY on a headless server. It requires 13v, 300mA power but the AC/DC adapter provided (P/N: 0950-3415) is of the 12V, 1.0A variety. What's that you say? You haven't had server with serial consoles since the late 1990's? Oh, never mind, then. Neither have I, I'm discovering.

What's this used for?

This can be really useful for those servers with a serial TTY console that you don't want to expose via SSH. Put the server in your DMZ with the minimum of ports exposed (you do this already, right?) and connect this little device to its serial console and run its ethernet to your internal network. (Yeah, there are reasons to not do this—make sure you take calculated and thought-through risks, don't just do things for the sake of doing them.) So here's a link for the J3591A HP Secure Web Console manual. Yes, I recognize that I'm violating copyright law. Here's how I'm justifying this: a) it's not (update: easily found) on the HP support site, b) through my searches for a copy I have seen many requests for one and c) no one else seems to have one. If you're HP and want me to take this down, please contact me (it's not hard to figure out how) and I will comply as soon as I receive your notice.

Silly me. Moments after I posted this, I searched for my post's title to see what came up and found HP's PDF (my copy) as the second hit (after this post). I'm certain it wasn't there yesterday . . .

Section Hiking Family (BT)

Thu, 26 May 2011 13:23:07 -0500

Last October, my family and I got our 15-kilobytes of fame over at SectionHiker.com as a featured section hiker of the Buckeye Trail.

From the post:

Why do you keep coming back to the Buckeye Trail?

Now that we know what we're looking for, it's not uncommon to spot a blue blaze passing through a town or see a signpost on the edge of a forest showing where the BT is passing through. So much of our day-to-day life is spent within just a few miles of this trail that we thought we'd explore where it leads.

The BT seems to link up those areas in Ohio that are still wild and unspoiled (or growing back). It's possible to start a hike in the middle of town and very quickly enjoy un-peopled woods and fields. And, with the Cuyahoga Valley National Park so close to us (and the BT running down the middle of it), it's just something we need to do.

Head over to Section Hiking Family: The Giffords to read the rest.

Bike Commuting: Day 1

Tue, 17 May 2011 10:06:08 -0500

This week is Cleveland Bicycle Week and I have decided to take the challenge. I just arrived at the Shaker LaunchHouse where I consult, leading technical projects and people for startups.

Here's the route I took.

From my Bell F20 cyclometer, here are the stats:

Distance

3.339 miles

Time

14:05 mm:ss

Average speed

14.4 mph

Maximum speed

27.3 mph

Here are some of my observations:

Borderline weather can be nice: It was 49°F today and overcast. I started out in shirtsleeves and chilly and ended up nicely warmed by my arrival.
Bike lanes can be a hindrance rather than a blessing: Having a painted bike lane for my whole Lee Road segment in Cleveland Heights made me feel like I couldn't move out of the lane to avoid the many manhole covers, etc. in that narrow confines.
All stop lights/signs should be at the top of hills, not the bottoms: With stop lights at the bottom, all one's momentum (from riding down the hill) is killed by stopping at the light.
It's doubtful that cyclists are taken into consideration when placing manholes, etc.: See note on bike lanes above.
Fenders on bikes are nice: I didn't hit too many puddles today but it was nice not worrying about them.
Using your front and back lights during the daytime doesn't create a force field.: But it feels like it helps
We need more bike racks: Or perhaps when the LaunchHouse gets further along, I'll be able to lock my bike up in the back.

One final lesson I may have picked up. Normally in the car, I budget about 15 minutes to get here. Not counting some extra prep (firming up the tire, packing extra rain gear, etc.) and locking up the bike upon arrival, it was almost a minute faster to ride than it would be to take the car.

2011 Cuyahoga Challenge

Mon, 09 May 2011 09:06:16 -0500

The CVNPA has released a sneak-peek of the 2011 Cuyahoga Challenge (pdf).

Hikers will hike ten of the twelve listed routes between June 1^st and September 30^th. There are a number of excellent routes listed ranging from the super-easy (Haskell Run Trail at 0.5 miles) to the pretty-long (Boston to Jaite at 8.4 miles).

Hikers who complete these hikes between these dates will receive a patch designed by local artist Chuck Ayers, who illustrates the Crankshaft comic strip.

Last year we started late in the season and worked hard to complete the challenge. This year we intend to start sooner and see if we can get some others interested in it, too!

If you're interested in joining us on one of these, please leave a comment or follow along here.

Wetmore/Langes Loop Hike

Mon, 02 May 2011 11:24:01 -0500

The Northeast Ohio Hiking Club sponsored a Meetup to hike the Wetmore & Langes Trails in a 9-mile loop this past Saturday.

It was well-attended (about 15 hikers & two dogs) and we kept up a very quick pace (about 3 mph). The Cuyahoga Valley National Park has a good topo map with the trails marked (pdf) and while a couple of us took the map along, the trails were obvious enough that we didn't risk getting lost. There are also a few trailhead markers when some of the spurs/loops or trails connect. Two of the paths we took had large signs indicating that the bridle trail was closed but we hiked it on foot anyway.

Yes, this is also a bridle trail. If you don't like picking the trail around horse scat or if you don't like how horses can destroy a foot path (see update below), then this may not be the trail for you.

We started at the Wetmore Trailhead (near the "X"), crossed Wetmore Road and headed south on the Valley Trail. From there, we picked up the Langes Run Trail in a counter-clockwise loop, crossed Wetmore Road again and connected with the Dickerson Run Trail headed west. Joining the Wetmore Trail again we continued west (now clockwise), passed near the parking area and continued the loop north toward Quick Road.

We briefly considered taking the Tabletop Trail and then continuing on the Wetmore or perhaps looping around (counter-clockwise) and adding another 1.6 miles, but that was quickly vetoed.

Instead, we continued west (clockwise) on the Wetmore, duplicated a short section of the trail and ended up at our cars.

All together, it was a 9.1 mile hike in just over three hours setting a pace of about 3 miles each hour. We started (and ended) at 850 feet elevation. Our highest point was 1047 feet and our lowest was 730 feet. The GPS indicates that we ascended (and descended) about 1300 feet on this route. To do all of this at once made it a fairly strenuous route for this area.

The trail winds its way through the standard Cuyahoga Valley collection of trees including oaks and hemlocks. We saw Erythronium americanum (Trout Lily) and Trillium grandiflorum (white Trillium) along with four or five different violets.

Wildlife was scarce (with two dogs and fifteen quickly-moving hikers) but I did see some chipmunks and we heard downy woodpeckers, flickers and red-wing blackbirds. This was the same hike we saw the hooded warbler last year during the 2010 Cuyahoga Challenge.

I'm not a big fan of these two trails (Wetmore and Langes) largely because of their dual-use nature with also being bridle trails. As Andrew (the hike leader) said in the Meetup page, these trails are always muddy, even in a late-summer drought. The horses contribute greatly to this, but the trails are also situated on shallow dirt over clay. Just be prepared for mud.

Would I hike this again? Probably. Averaging 3mph, it's hard to really care about the trail surface. You just go. Since it was on last year's Cuyahoga Challenge list, it's unlikely to be included in 2011. So I'll gladly hike it again some other year.

Update (20110526): I found this quote about shared horse/hiker trails on a Captain Blue blogpost (he's section hiking the Buckeye Trail) that I thought I'd share:

Whenever a footpath is shared by horses and hikers the hikers usually get the losing end of the deal. The trail was doubly muddy from all the hoof prints. Every hoof print makes an indentation which becomes a small puddle. The small puddles make one long stretch of muddy trail.

Hiatus

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:24:36 -0500

hi·a·tus [hahy-ey-tuhs] -noun

1. A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
. . .
5. An interruption, break or pause.

I've never intentionally put this blog on a hiatus before. In fact, there are only two months since July 2007 when I haven't published one or more posts (you should see my "Draft" list).

The goal for this hiatus is to spend some time on my professional writings. So, if you're interested, you may follow me in the following locations:

Blogging on professional topics (management and leadership) at Wordpress
Blogging on my startup at nsNomads
Micro-blogging over at Twitter

BT by canoe: Paddling (along) the path

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:49:22 -0500

(Note: I won't be claiming these as Buckeye Trail miles although the path we paddled closely parallels the BT in this part of the Burton Section of the trail. But it is tempting.)

The Upper Cuyahoga is a slow-moving stream with beavers on either side, ducks, towering trees and lots of lilly pads.

Our boating group, CABBS, chose this past Saturday (10/16) as the date of our descent from Eldon Russell Park in Burton, to the 422 bridge (gpx). We would drop our boats at Eldon Russell, stage our vehicles at the restaurant on 422, then leisurely paddle down the river to collect our boats and find some lunch. (View Larger Map)

It was supposed to be a five or more mile trip, but I think it ended up being a little less than three and a half. Whatever the case, the day was just about perfect!

We had a great turnout, a stunningly-blue sky, leaves that were thinking about turning and a quiet paddle down the river.

OK, there was this one point where the duck hunters with the guns didn't take very kindly to us disturbing "their" river.

And the other time when the power boat streamed past with wakes that would wash away a good section of bank. (They actually had the nerve to say that it was a one-way river: their way!) But once we got past those elements, we just about had the river to ourselves.

The Scout Troop that had started before us was just fast enough that we didn't see them until we caught up with them at the 422 bridge where they were having lunch.

We saw evidence of beavers and loads of lily pads. I think it may have been too cool for turtles to get out, for we didn't see any.

Off in the distance, the turkey vultures soared and more than once my son said he saw hawks.

Mostly it was just the river.

We had a wide variety of watercraft on the river. We brought our royalex Mohawk canoe, there was a solo kevlar We-no-nah canoe, a canvas-over-cedar Chestnut (?) canoe, a pair of kayaks, a pink homemade canvas-over-ribs kayak, a homemade bateau canoe and a homemade kayak (CLC?). Maybe more.

It was quite a flotilla.

Did I mention that it was a glorious day?

Newbery Books

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:34:00 -0500

I was challenged recently to read all of the Newbery Medal books.

And so I shall.

Even the ones I've already read.

2010 Medal Winner: When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
2009 Medal Winner: The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean
HarperCollins
2008 Medal Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
by Laura Amy Schlitz
Candlewick
2007 Medal Winner: The Higher Power of Lucky
by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan
Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson
2006 Medal Winner: Criss Cross
by Lynne Rae Perkins
Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins
2005 Medal Winner: Kira-Kira
by Cynthia Kadohata
Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster
2004 Medal Winner: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering
Candlewick Press
2003 Medal Winner: Crispin: The Cross of Lead
by Avi
Hyperion Books for Children
2002 Medal Winner: A Single Shard
by Linda Sue Park
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin
2001 Medal Winner: A Year Down Yonder
by Richard Peck
Dial
2000 Medal Winner: Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Delacorte
1999 Medal Winner: Holes
by Louis Sachar
Frances Foster
1998 Medal Winner: Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
Scholastic
1997 Medal Winner: The View from Saturday
by E.L. Konigsburg
Jean Karl/Atheneum
1996 Medal Winner: The Midwife's Apprentice
by Karen Cushman
Clarion
1995 Medal Winner: Walk Two Moons
by Sharon Creech
HarperCollins
1994 Medal Winner: The Giver
by Lois Lowry
Houghton
1993 Medal Winner: Missing May
by Cynthia Rylant
Jackson/Orchard
1992 Medal Winner: Shiloh
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Atheneum
1991 Medal Winner: Maniac Magee
by Jerry Spinelli
Little, Brown
1990 Medal Winner: Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
Houghton
1989 Medal Winner: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
by Paul Fleischman
Harper
1988 Medal Winner: Lincoln; A Photobiography
by Russell Freedman
Clarion
1987 Medal Winner: The Whipping Boy
by Sid Fleischman
Greenwillow
1986 Medal Winner: Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia MacLachlan
Harper
1985 Medal Winner: The Hero and the Crown
by Robin McKinley
Greenwillow
1984 Medal Winner: Dear Mr. Henshaw
by Beverly Cleary
Morrow
1983 Medal Winner: Dicey's Song
by Cynthia Voigt
Atheneum
1982 Medal Winner: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
by Nancy Willard
Harcourt
1981 Medal Winner: Jacob Have I Loved
by Katherine Paterson
Crowell
1980 Medal Winner: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832
by Joan W. Blos
Scribner
1979 Medal Winner: The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin
Dutton
1978 Medal Winner: Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
Crowell
1977 Medal Winner: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor
Dial
1976 Medal Winner: The Grey King
by Susan Cooper
McElderry/Atheneum
1975 Medal Winner: M. C. Higgins, the Great
by Virginia Hamilton
Macmillan
1974 Medal Winner: The Slave Dancer
by Paula Fox
Bradbury
1973 Medal Winner: Julie of the Wolves
by Jean Craighead George
Harper
1972 Medal Winner: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
by Robert C. O'Brien
Atheneum
1971 Medal Winner: Summer of the Swans
by Betsy
byars
Viking
1970 Medal Winner: Sounder
by William H. Armstrong
Harper
1969 Medal Winner: The High King
by Lloyd Alexander
Holt
1968 Medal Winner: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
Atheneum
1967 Medal Winner: Up a Road Slowly
by Irene Hunt
Follett
1966 Medal Winner: I, Juan de Pareja
by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Farrar
1965 Medal Winner: Shadow of a Bull
by Maia Wojciechowska
Atheneum
1964 Medal Winner: It's Like This, Cat
by Emily Neville
Harper
1963 Medal Winner: A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
Farrar
1962 Medal Winner: The Bronze Bow
by Elizabeth George Speare
Houghton
1961 Medal Winner: Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
Houghton
1960 Medal Winner: Onion John
by Joseph Krumgold
Crowell
1959 Medal Winner: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare
Houghton
1958 Medal Winner: Rifles for Watie
by Harold Keith
Crowell
1957 Medal Winner: Miracles on Maple Hill
by Virginia Sorensen
Harcourt
1956 Medal Winner (10/19/2010): Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
by Jean Lee Latham
Houghton
1955 Medal Winner: The Wheel on the School
by Meindert DeJong
Harper
1954 Medal Winner: ...And Now Miguel
by Joseph Krumgold
Crowell
1953 Medal Winner: Secret of the Andes
by Ann Nolan Clark
Viking
1952 Medal Winner: Ginger Pye
by Eleanor Estes
Harcourt
1951 Medal Winner: Amos Fortune, Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates
Dutton
1950 Medal Winner (11/17/2010): The Door in the Wall
by Marguerite de Angeli
Doubleday
1949 Medal Winner: King of the Wind
by Marguerite Henry
Rand McNally
1948 Medal Winner: The Twenty-One Balloons
by William Pène du Bois
Viking
1947 Medal Winner: Miss Hickory
by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Viking
1946 Medal Winner: Strawberry Girl
by Lois Lenski
Lippincott
1945 Medal Winner: Rabbit Hill
by Robert Lawson
Viking
1944 Medal Winner (11/29/2010): Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes
Houghton
1943 Medal Winner: Adam of the Road
by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Viking
1942 Medal Winner: The Matchlock Gun
by Walter Edmonds
Dodd
1941 Medal Winner: Call It Courage
by Armstrong Sperry
Macmillan
1940 Medal Winner: Daniel Boone
by James Daugherty
Viking
1939 Medal Winner: Thimble Summer
by Elizabeth Enright
Rinehart
1938 Medal Winner: The White Stag
by Kate Seredy
Viking
1937 Medal Winner: Roller Skates
by Ruth Sawyer
Viking
1936 Medal Winner: Caddie Woodlawn
by Carol Ryrie Brink
Macmillan
1935 Medal Winner: Dobry
by Monica Shannon
Viking
1934 Medal Winner: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
by Cornelia Meigs
Little, Brown
1933 Medal Winner: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
by Elizabeth Lewis
Winston
1932 Medal Winner: Waterless Mountain
by Laura Adams Armer
Longmans
1931 Medal Winner: The Cat Who Went to Heaven
by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Macmillan
1930 Medal Winner (01/06/2011): Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
by Rachel Field
Macmillan
1929 Medal Winner: The Trumpeter of Krakow
by Eric P. Kelly
Macmillan
1928 Medal Winner: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Dutton
1927 Medal Winner: Smoky, the Cowhorse
by Will James
Scribner
1926 Medal Winner: Shen of the Sea
by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
Dutton
1925 Medal Winner: Tales from Silver Lands
by Charles Finger
Doubleday
1924 Medal Winner: The Dark Frigate
by Charles Hawes
Little, Brown
1923 Medal Winner: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
by Hugh Lofting
Stokes
1922 Medal Winner: The Story of Mankind
by Hendrik Willem van Loon
Liveright

Three Amigos

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:03:50 -0500

On Tuesday, we took the afternoon off to recycle an ancient lawnmower, visit a coin shop (BIG needed some mercury dimes) and enjoy a coupon for some free "boneless chicken wings" at the Quaker Steak and Lube.

"Hey, this is like chicken fingers for grownups!", it was declared. I'd never thought about it before. Kind of lessens the experience.

That coupon has been burning a hole in BIG's pocket since it was attached to his Lake County Captain's ticket in August.

The root beer was good, too.

Of course we all signed a beer deckle (at least that's what my wife calls them) for the scrapbook.

Fall in a Puddle

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:51:05 -0500

Letterboxing along the BT

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:36:00 -0500

Letterboxing is a sport similar to Geocaching in some ways. Someone hides a box somewhere and you find it. With Letterboxing, the seeker uses clues, riddles, poems and sometimes a compass. With Geocaching, it can be mostly about the GPSr.

Letterboxing traditionally includes creating a personalized stamp and leaving a stamp impression in the box's book and collecting the box's stamp impression in your book.

There doesn't seem to be as many Letterboxes as Geocaches (probably because there's not as much money to be made selling gear and GPSr, but also perhaps because it's largely a hand-made, low-tech activity).

Sunday after church, we headed out to find a few of these treasures in our local parks. All are within a mile or so of the Buckeye Trail and one is only a dozen feet off the blue blazes!

We started in the Brecksville Reservation, on the Hemlock Trail near the Brecksville Nature Center.

A Sassafras tenaciously holds onto its unique leaves.

After seeing and capturing a snake and seeing yet another one, we backtracked the suggested number of paces and found the box!

We were prepared to continue around the loop and see the rest of this trail but the "Letterboxing Bug" had bitten the crew and we were off to find another one, this time in Bedford Reservation.

What a glorious day for a hike and a Letterbox! For this one, we hiked a bit of a loop, saw the Fall Foliage, a crayfish and on the return path to where we started, found the tree and the other tree and there was the box!

This Letterbox's stamp was a bit interactive and all the more fun because of it. If you want to find out what that means, go find the Letterbox yourself!

The next one was closest to the Buckeye Trail and we followed the blue blazes for quite a while over trails we'd hiked before.

I think this serves to remind me that at any point in your day, there might be a Geocache or a Letterbox just around the corner from you.

Afterward, we took a break to enjoy the weather, the bright blue sky, the bright orange leaves and the swingset at the end of that trail.

And lastly, in the last light of (perhaps) the last nice day of this year, we went into Bedford to find a Letterbox Hybrid, a combination Letterbox and Geocache. There really is a Geocacher etiquette and a Letterboxing etiquette. If you don't believe me, go do a few of each and compare what you find.

Letterbox Hybrids accentuate the differences. At least in NE Ohio. They can both be delightful to find, please don't misunderstand me. Letterboxers and Geocachers are just different!

This one is found in an out-of-the-way little park with a Skilligimink playground and a winding little creek on its edge. The Geocacher known as sirIan claims this find.

It was a great day to be out-of-doors in north-east Ohio!

Early Fall at Shaker Lakes

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:03:05 -0500

Homeschool was over for the day. Resumes had been posted. Emails had been sent to potential employers. Networking calls had been made. It was Friday, October 8th.

In short, the school-week and work-week were done. It was time to get out of the house.

About this time of Fall in Cleveland, we start joking about "the last nice day of the year". Unfortunately, it's not always a joke and it's very rarely funny. Sometimes we can get a dozen more nice days and sometimes we find that they're all behind us.

So it's important to catch them when you can.

And thinking that this might be the last one helps to heighten the enjoyment of each remaining one.

It's like discovering more M&M's in the bottom of your supposedly empty bag.

We live about a mile north of Shaker Lake and so it's a quick walk through the neighborhood to the path that goes around this lake (the lower lake on Doan Brook).

Too close to ignore on this beautiful, last nice day of the year.

Taken for a ride

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:48:13 -0500

KT and I were tasked with grocery shopping yesterday.

Well, actually it started the evening before with a "can we go bike riding tomorrow?" sort of plea.

Why not mix them together!?

When it was all collected, purchased and back home, we had the following items:

2 large pumpkins
2 bottles of wine
4 16oz jars of Little Italy Pasta Sauce (yumm!)
2 bags of pretzels
1 pound of roast beef
1 pound of sliced cheddar
2 pounds of butter
1/2 gallon of milk
2 pounds of apples

and probably some other stuff.

Oh, and a gumball.

It was a good trip.

But what made it fun was having KT along!