Berkshire Get away

I took Mr. DT to North Adams this past weekend to show him college life. My college life. I think he gained a new appreciation for urban areas.

Something about being there again was fun. There's been a lot of changes in the five years since I left to start my post college life. Stores come and go, Main Street seems to change yearly, and the assiest Chinese place in town died a well-deserved death, proving that bad products will kill you eventually, even if you live in a town with desperate college students with unrefined palates that will eat anything.

So we learned a lot about each other this weekend, namely that we've both lived in small towns with NOTHING to do. I think it gives you a sort of resourcefulness that urban folks don't get -- having to find interesting ways to entertain oneself is good for one's character, if you ask me.

It was a short vacation -- we left eaaaaaaaaaarly Saturday and returned Sunday evening. All told, I think the trip cost $300 ish -- the roundup

Room at HoJo: 84
Tolls on the mass pike: 2
Meals: 100
Entertainment/Misc: 35
Gas: 60

That's a grand total of $281. Not bad, for a weekend of fun and games.

Oh, and as an aside: If you ever want to drive a dead body thru the Mass pike, arrange it in the passenger seat, put a CPAP mask on it, and go. No muss, no fuss. Mr. DT slept the entire way upstate and no one said a thing. Not even when I parked in McDonald's to take a ladies room break. So weird.