Edward Vielmetti

Great independent bookstore.

While I was leaving the airport I overhead the TSA and a passenger arguing about whether someone’s salad dressing needed to be thrown away, or whether it could be put into another container.

Wireless access is via Boingo, $7.95/day.

It was a long drive to get there, but the town is beautiful, and Cornell is a lovely campus.

I spent a spring break there one year helping my aunt who is on faculty there with some computer programmng (and generally hanging out around the geology department).

I’ve been there before, but I want to go back.

It’s not all that far by train from Ann Arbor, and if I time everything right I can do a complete round trip in 36 hours.

There’s a bunch of people there who I want to see.

I went to the Island with my high school choir to sing in Christmas in July celebrations. It’s fun to be in a place where everyone walks or rides horses, much slower pace than typical.

The tourists are all fudgies.

I wouldn’t want to make a steady diet of it like I did 15 years ago, but there’s something very appealing about going into the Fleetwood and ordering a plate of green eggs and ham (scrambled eggs, green onions, and diced ham) for lunch with a cup of diner coffee to wash it down.

The stickers on the walls are worth the price of admission.

Cash only.

Lots of energy, lots going on, more things to do than there is time to do them.

Bring money.

We were there for a wedding. The Green Mountain Spinnery is worth a visit if you are into yarn or wool or spinning or even old factory machines – nothing quite like seeing raw wool on its way to being beautiful yarn.

We get back there about twice a year to visit family – it has become a very comfortable city at least the small parts of it that I visit and not so much like going away as it is like being in another part of where you live.