August 28, 2004
Vacation Planning
This Thursday I'll be leaving at 2:30 AM to head off for the Block Island ferry landing in Point Judith, RI. By 9:00 AM that day I should be setting foot on the island discovered by Dutch explorer Adrian Bloch in the early 17th century. Remarkably, Googling Adrian Bloch gets me nothing to link to about that, but then by chance I found this bit:
Why Block Island? Formed by glaciers nearly 10,000 years ago, this seven mile long, three and a half mile wide micro-climate with an area of 11 square miles hosts a unique and precious community of flora and fauna—some flourishing, some rare—The Nature Conservancy calls one of the 12 last great places in the Western Hemisphere. Originally settled by the Manisses Indians, it was named after Dutch navigator Adrian Block, who stumbled across it in 1614, then occupied by a party of English from the mainland in 1661. The 6400-acre island population (1990), 836.There's a map at the top of that page to help you locate the island. And the Google mystery is solved -- she misspelled his name "Block" instead of "Bloch". But you can find out a little bit more about Block Island here, the Block Island Times here, and a 360 degree panoramic view here. (I'll be staying near Southwest Point). While on the island several visits to Club Soda and other spots will be in order.
Preparations for the trip have been expensive. As I type I'm ripping music to load on my new 20gb iPod, which puts me in the class (not literally) of entering freshman at Duke University. I'm not nearly done ripping CD's, but by the time I am I should have something like 8-9 gigs of music (1400+ songs) that would play for 4-5 days straight through if the battery lasted that long.
Add in the cost of a used battery for the jinxed Powerbook G3 I've been trying to use all summer (delivery due on Monday from the estimable Powerbook Medic) and the cost to bring a car over on the ferry, and I'm down almost $500 without buying so much as a case of beer, never mind a lobster dinner that will enter into the mix eventually.
With the Powerbook and an Airport Express base station the house will be wired even though only to a local phone line, so I'm planning on sending some pics and blogging to some degree anyway while there.
In case you're wondering, I don't know shit about Macs generally, but there's an Apple
Posted by Peter at August 28, 2004 05:05 PM
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