The weekend preceding Thanksgiving is always spent driving Natasha and Tuey down from New York to Atlanta. Then Natasha goes back to NYC and back again to Atlanta before Christmas. Post-Christmas, I take the reverse trip to get them back. This year, Rohan joined us, too. It was a good thing that I did not have to do the nearly 850 miles of driving all by myself.

I do not believe I have ever reached this milestone before September could finish in the past…

Every time I come to Lithuania, I stay in Kaunas. This time I stayed in Vilnius. That too in Old Town. Like most of the European Old Towns, this had all the essential parts – city hall, the town square, cobble stone roads, restaurants on the streets where people were either drinking coffee or beer. This is the one part of European smaller towns that I absolutely enjoy.