GLC Road Trip

On the road to New York. Our GLC class will give a presentation in Manhattan on Monday. Good reason to go there for the weekend already.
I left the house at 8 this morning (after having gone out last night 'for just one beer.' But in Athens, there is no such thing as just one beer. So once again, home after 2). Sat on our porch and started reading my newest purchase - Above All Men by Eric Shonkwiler - and was once again amazed by how beautiful Athens is in the spring. Especially mornings. The yellow tulips and daffodils on our small patch, the clear blue sky traversed by plane tracks, the mist rising out of the not too distant woods, the incessantly twittering and chirping birds that seemed to surround me by dozens. Didn't make the reading easier.
Around 9, the group arrived and picked me up in a van. Since we have one more person on board than seats in the vehicle, and I was the last one, I had to share a seat first and then squeezed in between the two seats of the middle row. On the floor. Riding backwards. It was okay, though, and now it's Mitch's turn. We're somewhere in  Maryland on a perfectly sunny day, driving through a still somewhat barren but very green countryside. Couple of hours left until we'll arrive at our hotel in New Jersey. We're very quiet now, some are sleeping, others reading. On the stereo some very good indie electro pop with a female vocalist provides a somewhat surreal atmosphere.