Day 3 (Aug 6)

Day 3 (Aug  6)

Start: South Bend, IN

End: Kadoka, SD 

940 miles; 14 hours 

Today, we picked up extra 2 hours because of time zones. We started driving right before 8 am and got into the hotel at Kadoka also at around 8 pm, but we actually have been driving for 14 hours (13 hours driving + 1 hour meal & breaks). Today, we crossed Illinois, Iowa, and 2/3 of South Dakota. We also crossed two rivers: Mississippi river  at  Illinois/ Iowa  border and Missouri river in South Dakota. The speed limit keeps getting higher  and the number of cars on the road keeps dropping. The town we are staying at tonight has a population of less than 700 people. 

Day 2 (Aug 5)

Day 2 (Aug  5)

Start: Simsbury, CT

End: South Bend, IN

810 miles; 14 hours (12 hours driving + 2 hours breaks)

We passed six states today: Connecticut, New York, New Jersey (just the corner, < 1 mile distance), Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. Jack drove in the morning until lunch time, then I drove until dinner time, and Jack finished the last couple of hours after dinner. I decided that it was fun to take photos as we enter each state. Sometimes we either forgot to take photo after we cross the state border or can't find the sign, so we needed to be a little creative to find an appropriate sign for each state. 

 There is no photo for New Jersey. If we didn't stopped at the gas station, we probably wouldn't know there is a tiny little stretch (<1 miles) of New Jersey that we touched.

Day 1 (Aug 4)

Day 1 (Aug 4)

Start: Cambridge, MA

End: Simsbury, CT

110 miles; 2 hours

We packed up our car and started driving. We had more things to packed into the car than we thought, so we have  a pretty full car. Day 1 was a short and familiar drive.  Left our apartment in Cambridge and got to Simsbury early in the afternoon. 

Day –4 (July 31)

 Day –4 (July 31) 

start:  8:30 am Cambridge, MA

end: 5 pm  Cambridge, MA
miles: 0

Loaded everything we have into one container. We return the 2nd one empty back to the moving company. The container is 7' tall, 5' wide and 8' deep, and we stuffed a mattress, a bed frame, a three-seat sofa, a book case, a dining room table, four chairs, two end tables,  two small stands, and a sewing machine table in it; plus three large suitcase of our clothing and about 20 boxes of books, pottery,  and kitchen items. 

暑假？

緣分用完了，很多朋友接下來都要離開波士頓，這幾天一直在跟大家道別，工作也提不起勁。沒有辦法專心工作，進度緩慢，急也急不出東西來。實驗室一個朋友星期六跟太太小孩回瑞士，送給我們一個帶不走的咖啡壺。以後要來我們家的朋友們就有福了，有咖啡可以喝啦。不然以前都是朋友們自己帶咖啡來，不然就每天早上去巷口報到。沒想到夾克熊也開始享受咖啡了。

夾克熊剛剛出發，這個月的第三個面試，坐好多趟飛機，辛苦了。再一陣子，接下來也要換我們搬家了。

我在這邊每天打混的時候，實驗室的一盆甜椒一點都沒有懶惰。(照片雖然看起來不像甜椒，不過是很甜很好的)。從春天開花結了兩個果，第一顆大一點，差不多八吋，第二顆小一點五吋半。把第二顆摘下來兩個星期以後，看起來已經沒有什麼營養的盆栽竟然很努力地又開了一堆花，努力要結果。

一眨眼，夏天就這麼來報到了，我也要趕快把該弄完的東西都結尾。加油

from a glove to a squirrel

迫不及待就放上來了，最近消磨時間時做的。

左上角的圖片是有一天在網路上面看到的照片，把手套變成松鼠

http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2008/recycled-glove-how-to-make-a-chipmunk-softie/

那張照片放在我的電腦桌面上有一段時間了，論文答辯後實驗室的朋友們給我了一帶材料：兩雙手套跟針線、棉花。最近放假有時間就造了兩隻，沒有原作可愛，不過很滿意啦。

從天堂回到了人間

(照片 http://sdrv.ms/11iNk4l)

放自己兩個星期的假。跟爸爸把附近的景點都去走走，暑假之後，跟這個城市的緣分就暫時沒了。

Mt Monadnock 爬山

Maine 看海

Cape Cod 撿貝殼

Martha's Vineyard 騎車

(以上地名用中文說：第一個翻不出來，緬因州，鱈魚角，瑪莎葡萄園島)

 其他值得一提的

*在Cape cod 碰巧看到osprey 魚鷹捕魚。 那天風很大，我們看到一隻鳥在海面上逆風飛行，應該說，原地不動地飛。牠就一直在同一個高度同一個地點，在那裏好久，我跟爸爸看了都很好奇。那種樣子，好像腳上綁了風箏線那樣，就只能飛到那裏，然後就不能再往上往前了。一陣子過後，魚鷹開始緩緩垂直下降，這種動作我也沒看過，趕緊瞪大著眼睛繼續看牠還有麼花樣。慢慢降到在水面上差不多兩公尺的地方，魚鷹突然掉到水裡面，然後飛出水面。飛出水面以後，好像載了很重的東西，飛得不是很穩，忽高忽低的。等魚鷹飛離我們進一點，我們才看到，牠的腳上抓了一條魚，魚背朝上，頭朝前方，看起來好像游泳游到一半突然被抓出水面的樣子。好厲害。

類似的照片這裡有：http://www.thebirdersreport.com/wild-birds/bird-sightings/bald-eagle-pirating-fish-from-osprey

**Martha's Vineyard 充分地顯現了我的時間觀，念研究所養成最大的壞習慣就是，什麼事情都慢幾分鐘。開車到港口，我們正好錯過了準時出發去Martha's Vineyeard 的船。還好，隔壁的貨船差半個小時出發，他們也願意載人。一整個貨船的休息室就只有我跟爸爸，還跟船上的貨車照了很多相。錯過了客船很離譜，搭上了貨船，卻是另外一種經驗。

昨天爸爸回程往台灣行；我今天回到學校，打開電腦開始寫信找工作，從天堂回到了人間。