DL Open Thread Tuesday January 11th 2021

Me: Let’s go out to dinner one last time.
Ms: One last time?
Me: Yeah. One last time before things, you know,  go ka-plooey.
Ms: Ok.  Mexican?

True story.  Things had already gone ka-plooey of course.  Mexican restaurants are a trailing indicator.

I doubt President Manchin is going to allow another stimulus. But it isn’t as if the wholly powerless Under-President Biden is going to petition President Manchin for one. So no biggie.

Speaking of President Manchin, he said he would LOVE to vote for voting rights protections but only if 10 moderate New England Republican Senators from 1965 come back from the dead and vote for voting rights too.  So that will happen.

This pandemic wave is due, in part, to recalcitrant dummies who think masks, vaccinations and being asked to help not spread disease infringes on their freedom. Oh Well. Nothing we can do about recalcitrant dummies, right?  Oh wait… it is also due to the fact that Republican ghouls have figured out that prolonging the pandemic is “bad for Biden.”  

I like the idea of the ADT and admire the spirit of people who undertake it:  like this person:

Mainer and through-hiker Briana DeSanctis is looking to be the first woman to make a cross-country trek of the American Discovery Trail. She began her journey Jan. 1 at Cape Henlopen State Park, at the eastern terminus of the 5,000-mile trail.

From Delaware, the trail heads east through Maryland and West Virginia into Ohio, where hikers have an option to take the northern or southern route. DeSanctis is taking the southern route, which goes through Kentucky, southern Illinois, Missouri and Kansas before meeting back up with the northern route in Colorado. From Colorado, there’s one trail to the Pacific Ocean, where it ends at Limantour Beach in California.

Brushing the sand off her wet feet after stepping in the Atlantic Ocean to officially mark the beginning of her trip, DeSanctis was in good spirits.  (snip)

DeSanctis’ progress can be monitored on her Facebook page – Rocky Mountain High on the Discovery Trail. According to the Facebook page, as of the deadline for this story, she has made it into Maryland, which means she hiked through the snow and on the poorly plowed roads of western Sussex and Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

DeSanctis can also be reached by phone at 603-534-8135 or by email, bree683@hotmail.com.

If you, like me,  wondered how ADT hikers crossed the Chesapeake Bay, wonder no longer:

“At Stevensville (MD) arrangements must be made for a taxi or a friendly motorist to carry you across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.”