September 28, 29


Said good-bye to Traverse City after a terrific month. The locals say it’s the best September there in many years. We were lucky. Began the drive south under clear and sunny skies. Stopped for lunch in the town of West Branch. By the time we reached Saginaw, the rains began and were quite heavy at times. We got to Commerce Township and Rita’s sister and brother-in-law’s home by 4:00 PM. Looks like the rain we missed up north has located us here. We went out for a nice dinner at a rib place.
The next day it rained all day again. Did have a nice lunch consisting of a Detroit favorite: Coney Island hot dogs. They are the best hot dogs imaginable: chili, onions, and mustard. It’s truly amazing; there must be hundreds of these places in the Detroit area, all busy nearly all the time. Can’t understand why San Diego doesn’t even have one of these.




 





 

At around 6 PM, we met our car shipping driver at a shopping mall parking lot nearby and watched him load the car onto his truck. It should arrive in San Diego in 6-7 days.







  
 
 









 


 September 30



A really terrific day! Rain again, of course. Drove first through Oakland County to my brother’s home in Southfield. We went out for breakfast, then drove into the neighborhood where we grew up; fabulous homes still looking exactly the same as when we left more than 40 years ago.






 












 After dropping Doug back at his home, I drove to a law firm in the town of Bloomfield Hills where one of my elementary school classmates, Alan Schwartz, works. We were joined by three others, Bob Dovitz, George Martin, and Richard Cavaler for a meeting of a committee planning a 60 year reunion of our 8th grade graduation to be held in August 2017. 





 















The evening was especially enjoyable. We met at a nice Italian restaurant and were joined by three of my best friends from high school: Mark Diem and wife, Karen, Hank Gornbein and wife, Debbie, and Isaac Schaver. We relived a lot of our favorite memories, especially the road trip to the west coast which the four of us took in the late summer of 1962 in Isaac’s Bonneville convertible towing a camping trailer.