Topic: Weekend Trip to Hollins University (Roanoke, Va.)

[addicted2dvd]

2nd Transfer — Richmond, Va.

[MEJHarrison]

Thanks for sharing Pete! It's been a lot of fun following along.

[addicted2dvd]

Well.. it looks like doing this by blog is out. Hollins Guest wifi does not allow blogging or social networks. Which also means Facebook is also out.

Obviously... as you can tell I made it to Hollins. Sitting in my suite now. it is a very nice place. the house was built in 1903... which proved to be a little problematic for me. As all the plug ins in this house is the 2 prong instead of the 3 prong. All except some of the plugs in the kitchen which means I must use the computer on battery..... then take it in the kitchen to charge it. And for some strange reason it charges really slow.

I did get some pics on the journey.... though not nearly as many as I wanted to.

I will post some as soon as possible. Though it my not be tonight... as I am exhausted! As of right now I am at 36 hours with no sleep. So I may just hit the sack at instead.

[Rogmeister]

Pete sent me a personal message and told me to let everyone know that the hollins wifi is blocking him and he can't post now from there.  I guess this means it may be awhile before we get anymore messages from him.

[Dragonfire]

That seems odd that the wifi there won't let guests use it for certain things..   Hope he can get some sleep.

[addicted2dvd]

I can post here. Just can't post at a lot of the well known forums/blog sites/Facebook etc.

So the blog is now out... as well as most places I was posting about my tip.

[addicted2dvd]

And I just found out they are blocking where I upload images.. no photosharing sites!?!

Why do they even bother giving guests free wifi if they don't want them to use it! 

[Kathy]

Maybe you need to ask for access - it couldn't hurt to check.

[addicted2dvd]

Yeah Kathy... I tried asking about it. didn't help. It seems that the student wifi gets slow sometimes... what with all the students accessing it. So a lot of the students were taking up the guest wifi... to discourage this they limited a lot of stuff with the guest connection.

Wow! Was this a busy day! We were out and about starting at 7:30am... and continued to 7pm.

I am a little down and lonely this evening. First night for Brittany in her dorm. And away from the rest of my family. This is actually the first night I had all by myself in many years! Matter of fact... if I am not mistaken.. this is the first night I been totally alone since I was in my early 20s... so it has been a good 20 years.

So  am sitting here... typing on the computer... about to pop in a horror movie till I get tired and feel like I am ready to hit the sack.

[addicted2dvd]

trying something...

[addicted2dvd]

OK... I can attach the photos to the posts... the above one (click it to see it bigger)... is of Brittany and a friend of the family. This guy was good enough to come to the house in the middle of the night to take us to meet the bus.

[addicted2dvd]

This next picture is of Brittany waiting at the bus stop... waiting for the first bus to pick us up.

[addicted2dvd]

Same bus stop... close up...

[addicted2dvd]

Britt and I together... same bus stop.

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Brittany at first bus station... waiting for the second bus.