“I travelled on African buses.”
Rain, Rain, Go Away! Today is another ugly day. It will rain off and on all day and stay in the low 60’s. Right now the rain is on again. Our concert was cancelled. The event wasn’t, but we can’t play in the rain so I get to stay home cozy, dry and warm.
It is science fiction Saturday. I am now being entertained by The Atomic Submarine with a great opening of wonderfully eerie music. I like to watch the list of lesser actors as sometimes I recognize a few of the names. Here I didn’t. The special effects aren’t great, but this was released in 1959. It seems one of the atomic subs has been destroyed and other ships have gone missing from their polar route. The Tigershark, a high tech sub, will hunt the cause of these disasters. I haven’t seen the whole movie, but the villain is extraterrestrial. There is a voiceover to fill the plot gaps.
I feel lazy today. I suspect it will be a sloth day. My to-do list is no shorter than it has been, but I have no guilt about it. Chores will get done sometime.
I like naps. I even used to take them in the heat of the afternoon in Ghana. For two hours, during siesta time, the stores and even the post office closed. My students rested in their dorms.
Traveling in Ghana was an adventure. During school holidays, I’d take the bus to Accra which was 364 miles away. A car ride only took 6 1/2 hours, but I was seldom lucky enough to find a ride. Sometimes I’d take the state bus which had a schedule and took about the same amount of time as a car to get to Accra. Other times I’d take a bus from the lorry park, the cheapest ride, where I’d have to wait until the bus filled before it left. People were even crammed in the aisle. The bus made frequent stops adding to the travel time. I’d buy food offered through the window usually by women. It took hours to get to Accra. The best and quickest way was by plane from Tamale which took about an hour and was sort of expensive. I didn’t take that too often.
In Ghana, I learned be a patient traveler.
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September 30, 2023 at 3:07 pm
Hi Kat,
I saw the news stories about parts of NYC being underwater from all the rains along the East coast. Here in the ‘desert’ of North Texas we haven’t seen even a drop of rain for a very, very long time. Maybe we had some in July.
It’s interesting that the movie you were watching was made about a year or so after the first nuclear submarine, “Nautilus” sailed under the North Pole. I remember that feat which was considered a scientific breakthrough at the time.
In the last year or so, on many days I feel like I need an afternoon nap. We have an instructor lounge with a couple of recliners, a TV, and a couple of sleeping rooms with recliners to take a snooze. Some days I will go into one of those rooms and set my Apple Watch for a 10 or 15 minute nap. I remember reading that President Kennedy would take 10 minute power naps during breaks in meetings. It actually works. I extend it to 15 minutes because I’m older than President Kennedy was. 🙂
Once in 1961 my cousin and I came to Dallas to visit my father. We accompanied him on a trip to Midland Texas as he was working as a salesman calling on retail customers. When we reached Midland, about halfway from Dallas, he put us on a Greyhound bus to El Paso where our uncle lived. After a week our uncle put us on a bus to Dallas. That was a 16 hour trip all in Texas. At one rest stop we bought egg salad sandwiches for dinner. Unfortunately, the mayonnaise in the egg salad was not good and I became sick to my stomach. The last part of the trip was miserable because I was very nauseous. To this day I won’t eat egg salad. I will eat deviled eggs. 😦