Vacation - Deanna & Cody and Wilkes-Barre

This is one of the signs on the Market Street Bridge. Pretty funny. I wonder if the sign was made in Japan. (The link also refers to the Frick Collection on 71st St. and 5th Ave. in New York City. Our guide pointed this out to us as we went by and said that it was the most prestigious piece of property in the city.)

This is from the bridge. Deanna and Cody live just a block or so from the church with the green roof in the center of the picture.

The day after staying at the B&B in Wilkes-Barre, we continued our rest day by putting in a load of laundry at Deanna and Cody's and then exploring the town. We'd had a continental breakfast that morning and decided to have a real breakfast for lunch. We started to look for a place but pulled in a parking lot to mail some letters first and saw this old gentleman with a white cane moving very slowly along the sidewalk across the street. I decided to see if I could help him and he grabbed my arm as soon as I made the offer. It took 20-25 minutes to help him to where he was going (Tony's Deli) and I knew a lot about him by the time we got there - and by then, he was expecting us to have lunch with him (Tony makes breakfast all day), which we did. His name is Robert Stein, he's 83, lives alone in a high-rise nearby, and walks to Tony's everyday for lunch where he eats Belgian waffle with gravy. He lost his eyesight in 1968 in an automobile accident. Wilkes-Barre is an interesting place. As with most cities this age, it has an "old town" and that's where Deanna and Cody live - for now, but not much longer. They're being transferred to the southern part of the state. Thanks again to them for the accomodations - we stayed at "Swopes Suites" two nights and it was good visiting with them (and Beverly) and good to be able to pet the dogs.