I recently made a choice of either keeping my apartment or giving up my car. I chose to keep my car and leave my apartment. This summer I can continue to drive to different libraries and other avenues of archival searches. I am sharing some ways to work smarter, not harder in this summer heat.
I have placed items in storage. I am still navigating mobile living from a suitcase, but here are a few tips about my daily endeavors. I have two sections in my trunk, right side for clean clothes, left side for the laundry hamper.
I am in Lexington, KY now and I have stayed at a clean shelter on Winchester Road. I have to be in line for a bed by 7:00pm. There are signs posted of conduct and an invitation to help keep the outside clean. I was exhausted and went straight to bed. I have used the YMCA facilities to work out and shower. I can do this in the morning. Some shelters have rules to follow, so check the website and phone ahead.
My eating habits need improving, but I am focusing on new ideas. First, I bought a glass bottle with a porcelain top at Michael's Art and Crafts store. The plastic bottles break down in my car during the summer heat. Plastic bottles are made from petroleum and it break down in heat. I also go to a convenience store and use my cup and fill it with ice. Selective Kroger stores have a triple filtered water location. I LOVE THIS PRODUCT! It costs less than bottled water.
Other choice locations while on the road are downtown libraries of the cities that I visit.
Additionally, Crackle Barrel restaurants are peppered along the I -75 corridor both North and South. It starts from Detroit, MI and continues to the tip of Florida. As a literary citizen, writing, reading, and listening to other authors improves discipline. They have an audio/ books on tape section. How does it work? You use your credit card and check out a tape and listen to it. Return it during your next visit to the restaurant. Ask a server for full details. There food and service-very good. Their servings are large, so I usually ask for a take out container. I mix this up with an red apple, yellow banana, or blueberries with milk for a second road meal. My friend Jennifer Beck at the Wellness Center taught me about how to eat the colors of the rainbow, red, yellow, orange. I wonder if a green lime in my Corona beer is acceptable?
Finally, I use FedEx/Kinko's to use as a business station while on the road.
I am making plans to use Megabus for a trip to Philadelphia, PA to learn more about how Charles Cist was involved in early political, cultural, social, scientific, and monetary policies in the city.
I welcome comments on how to improve my summer mobile search.
Andrew C. Allen
513.638.7140
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