21-31JUL08 - Everett, WA (and boston & tulsa)

On 21JUL, Monday, Dan departed for Boston, MA, for a five day consulting job for a company called CRA. Unfortunately he was trapped on the campus of MIT without a rental car. It wasn’t that bad, but after ten hour work days he didn’t feel like walking anywhere in the heat & humidity of Boston (not to mention two days of rain). He was able to join up with our friend Barbara & Steve Garrity for dinner and a short walk about Harvard Square. Check out our BLOG link for a picture of the Garritys.

http://theryanrvexpress.blogspot.com/2008/01/02-jan08-houma-la.html

Dan then flew back to the Northwest for the weekend before his next consulting job. That Saturday we visited Dan’s niece Marisa, her husband Dave Greenwell and son Jackson, in Arlington, WA. Turns out Dave is a recreational scuba diver, and he and his buddies had just caught a cooler of Dungeness crabs, and a few fish. So we were treated to a large and excellent crab boil with steaks, followed by roasting marshmallows over a fire. A most excellent time!

Then on Monday, 28Jul, Dan departed for Tulsa, OK, and a consulting job for branch of Louisiana State University called NCBRT. At the end of the work day there is not much going on in Tulsa, and it appears that everyone leaves the city for other places. Dan did check a number of road food establishments recommended by one of his favorite websites – http://www.roadfood.com/

During his time in Tulsa he tried: Hanks for hamburgers (very good); Coney I-Lander for hotdogs (so so); Wilson’s BBQ (very good); and White River Fish for fresh fish and gumbo (excellent).

Thankfully, Corrie was in the good company of the Peters' clan; and it looks like Dan will be around for the entire month of August.