and uh what part of Virginia um
uh i live down in the south western part of Blacksburg
Blacksburg okay i've been
uh-huh have you ever heard of Virginia Tech
sounds vaguely familiar
VPI
yeah okay
yeah okay that's
yeah i i hadn't been down in that part of the state really
uh-huh
okay
so
well we vacation a lot how about you quite frequently
uh i wish we did
well retired early so we're we take trips pretty often
oh okay
where all you guys go
well we go to Maine every Fall
um-hum
then that's kind of a family visit and a vacation all up and down the coast
um-hum
and i have a daughter in Texas and one in New Mexico so we go out there
and we go to Florida
huh
and down oh we were just out recently at the outer banks of North Carolina
all these places that i've never been
is that right where do you go
um
what type of vacation
well it really depends i mean uh
seems like i do a lot in the Midwest lately um my um fiancee's family's from Wisconsin
uh-huh
and so we've been out there a couple of times and um i uh went to Purdue for a couple of years so i've gone up to Indianapolis on occasion to visit friends
uh-huh
and um
uh
i'm a real big baseball fan so i usually try to combine it with uh catching a couple of games somewhere
uh-huh what club do you follow
i'm uh i'm a big Red Sox fan but uh i uh oh you're you're a Red Sox fan too
red sounds good me too
yeah uh-huh
uh i usually try to catch whoever's in town though i don't specifically i you know go to Cleveland to see them play the Red the Indians play the Red Sox
uh-huh
um
uh that's about it we don't i mean we do a lot of little trips around here um and um
ever go up in Pennsylvania in the mountains or
not that much we've gone out to um uh a place in western Pennsylvania called Falling Water uh
oh
have you ever heard of it
i've heard of it i've never been there
yeah it's it's really neat it's this house built on on a waterfall and it's uh really cool um of course we keep picking crummy weather to go out there uh the first time we went out there was uh the day after hurricane Hugo had come through
uh-huh
oh gee
so i mean they they didn't have any power and it was really cold and and rainy and uh we went up about a year later and it was better but not a whole lot better
uh-huh
so um where else did we go um
we've gone to Richland last year and uh had a good time down there
oh did you
did you go down to Williamsburg have you been down there
um my girlfriend has with her sisters but i haven't been down there um i hear that's nice we're going to get down probably down Norfork sometime this Summer just to see why catch a baseball game actually
uh-huh
uh-huh
we were down well when we came back from the outer banks we came up due Norfork and spent a night there with a friend in Portsmith and then went to Williamsburg and spent a night
hum spend a day and a lot of money
yeah
yeah i've heard uh i'm not real interested in Williamsburg because of the of the price attached to it we just we i
yeah but it's a pretty neat town to just go and walk around if you like to walk it's a good town to just walk in
hum
yeah we all do that
you can go to the buildings and not go in if you're not
oh okay so i can wander around without
yeah you can wander it's a good town to wander in
oh okay i just have it pay somebody to get into the buildings
that's right
oh okay i didn't know that yeah i think um
you know they do the whole with you know paying a ridiculous amount of money to get get into one thing or another but they had a good time so
yeah
we didn't do that really this time we just
uh visited around
um
we've done it a couple of times and that's enough for us probably another twenty years
um-hum
yeah i was um we use it live in California and um my um up up around San Francisco and um there was one year when my father was uh
my father's company was starting to to do stuff down in Los Angeles so my father was working down in Los Angeles for like um six months or so
um actually i think it was closer i think to a full year and you know we'd he'd fly down there on Mondays and fly back on Fridays well any time we had a school vacation or something like that we went down to Los Angeles so
i saw i went to Disneyland about five times in one year and i really have no great urge to go back now
oh
that's great as a kid though isn't it i mean
oh it was great because uh well the times that were really fun were when uh we had vacation but the kids in Los Angeles didn't so we basically had run of the park um
uh-huh
right
Disneyland i mean there's still a lot of people at Disneyland but there was another um another amusement park down there Busch Gardens um there was nobody there when we were there we got we won a log floating ride like five straight times we just get get done with them and they go oh do you want to go again and we'd say sure
have you ever you've never been down to Epcot at Florida and Disney
no i'd like to sometime but
that's good we we really enjoy that we've been two or three times and probably go back again this winter
yeah i've never been the farthest south i've been on the East Coast is Charlotte so i um keep wanting to get south further you know i thought i would go to Florida a couple summers ago but never did it
oh
uh-huh Charleston is a really nice place to visit
my um my sister lives in Charlotte and they've gone to Charleston a couple of times and had a real good time
uh-huh
yeah it's a real pretty place
um
yeah one of these days we'll get down there although
i don't know when we're going to have vacation to do it
we're um we're planning getting married in about a year and our honeymoon we're going up to this um
oh are you
um place in Wisconsin called Door County it's up by Green Bay it's a place my girlfriend's also wanted to go and um
uh-huh or is it on uh one of the lakes
it's um
uh i don't if you've ever seen a map of Wisconsin but there's kind of like a little
a little thing sticking out uh in the Lake Michigan that's Door County
uh-huh oh okay that would yeah that would be really nice
so
yeah they call it the Cape Cod of the uh the Midwest so um
oh
we're thinking that'll be a lot of fun she um she had this uh book of pictures from it that were really nice kind of like a travel guide
uh-huh
uh-huh sounds good
so um that that should be a lot of fun
well i don't know what our next trip will be i guess our next well i know what my next trip i'm going to be a grandmother in July
ooh
oh boy
the first the first one so my next trip is going to be to Texas
oh that'll be fun
yeah in the middle in the middle of the summer
well yeah you won't even notice it though
well
they'll be air-conditioning anyway so
yeah is that is that how you got into this uh this you know uh on the data base
yeah my daughter's working as a temp at Texas Instruments and working on this project
oh okay
yeah i was i was just i mean most of the people i've talk to are from are from Texas so when i you know when i heard you were from Virginia i was like oh okay there's somebody different and you said oh i got somebody down in Texas i go okay that the connection right there
uh-huh
that's it yeah
i talked to one in California i never asked him the other day how he was connected i don't think he was TI employee
um i um most people talk to Texas there's been a couple of other the people um most of whom are like me that work in in speech labs that are going to use data base eventually
oh i see
so um it was fun i actually yesterday i ended up talking to somebody else from the same lab i'm in
is that right
well we spent last week end in Charlotte with real good friends that had just moved to back East from Oklahoma and she's uh working on this project too i mean she's talking
ooh
um-hum
on the project too and uh we got back Monday and i got a call yesterday and it was her on TI Network
um-hum
uh that's neat i haven't uh i haven't had something like that happen just uh just getting the one guy from the lab
uh-huh
um
you're sure have a nice town uh my uh sister lives on Lake Norman
oh does she yeah that's nice out there
just
yeah um we keep wanting to get down there and visit them over the summer and it's never really works out
uh-huh yeah it's real pretty
yeah
well
traffic not much else we do for vacation really uh just so we don't haven't been able to take really any
are you a golfer
no me either
no no
are you guys golfers or
no huh-uh nope
oh
not too much into sports
except our outside though
just walking that's all
oh i don't think there are any trying to think if there are any minor league teams down in that area and i'm know real sure there are
um
no professionals
when um i was thinking i might be minor league but
oh there's one in Salem Salem Rebels
yeah
Salem Rebels
hum
Buccaneers oh okay
Buccaneers
yeah um yeah i maybe seeing them um in a town just west of here Frederick has a um has a minor league team that plays in the same league with Salem and uh
i think we may be seeing them this weekend
oh is that right up there in Frederick uh-huh
yeah i think they're out of town yeah
um
that's a nice little town actually Frederick um
i've never been up there i've never visited Baltimore i'd like to go just sight see a little bit sometime
oh there's there's some nice things in Baltimore you know the Inner Harbor and the uh the Aquarium and all that are very nice um they've just done a um you known i you know the Aquarium is one of those things that you know because everybody
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