Home again, for a sec
Back in town after two talks, one seminar, and 1134 driving miles through gorgeous country in the western Eastern Time Zone.
Though I didn’t cross into Illinois (“Land of Lincoln”), I was hardly starved for references to the 16th President, whether in Indiana (“Boyhood Home of Abraham Lincoln”), Kentucky (“Birthplace of Abraham Lincoln”), Tennessee (“The State with the Same Number of ‘N’s in Its Name as Abraham Lincoln”) or Ohio (“Home of Many, Many Pennies”).
Listened to the audiobook of The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama, a presidential candidate with one year more experience in government than the man widely viewed by scholars and the public alike as our greatest president.
Cincinnati is recovering from a hurricane. That sentence shouldn’t even make sense, but sadly does.
Once again, meeting the people was the highlight, including Skeptic Dad blogger Colin Thornton, some top-notch freethought organizers in Cincinnati (FIG’s John and Fran Welte) and Indianapolis (CFI’s Reba Boyd Wooden), Camp Quest founders Edwin and Helen Kagin, children’s author and illustrator Craig Gosling and aspiring freethought author Chris Edwards — not to mention longtime blogreader and all-star PBB supporter matsonwaggs — and several others who are now mad at me for not mentioning them.
Special hat-tip to The Rathskeller in Indianapolis, a restaurant built by Kurt Vonnegut’s grandfather, where I was treated to the best traditional German meal I’ve ever had. That includes the six weeks I spent in Germany and Austria.
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