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I've often used MARTA to get between ATL and Buckhead. It's often been faster than the drive.

The wife flew back from Boston yesterday arriving at 4:30, so the plan was for her to take the subway to the nearby station here, simple enough.  I go to meet her, and she texts that she has lost her pocketbook, bummer.  She is already through security when she realizes it's missing, so now it's a problem.  I hang around a bit and it's obvious this is going to take some time so I drift over to a local sports bar, Taco Mac, which is not my cup of tea really, I have a beer (Goose Island IPA, fine, and some chips).  The sports bar thing is something I tend to avoid, and this one is no different, while they have a hundred plus beers on tap and 50+ TVs, the food is second rate and the service is banal.  I hang for a while, finish, and start back to the condo, and just as I reach it the wife calls me and says they found her pocketbook still on the plane and return it to her with all her stuff.  She tells me this could never happen in France.

So, I turn around and reverse my path to the MARTA station but stop off at a small park to sit because I figure it will take her 25 minutes, in fact it took her 15 and she went to the wrong station at first and had to take another train south back to where I was, but she got there very fast.  It all worked out.  Moral of the story?

Most people here are honest.  While we were dining outside, a guy runs by yelling at some woman loudly, it caught our attention, but he was working at the next door restaurant and the lady had left HER pocketbook behind, so he caught her and returned it, as he walked by I gave him a thumbs up, not that it matters, a large black dude with dreadlocks who looked a bit rough sort of.  He smiled at me and thumbs up.

We'll go to that place soon.

expected high of 88 here

great golfing and beer drinking weather, been this way all week.  I played golf Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.  Going to take the night off, do some laundry, grill a steak at home, and rest up for the weekend filled with golf and Budweiser.

June is usually wonderful for golf here in NW Iowa

Women's World Cup starts today. Should be a good one. USWNT is the favorite, but it won't be easy.

CD, yes the NBA is still going, but unless Clay Thompson is healthy, the Warriors are in a big hole (KD is out, or so I hear).

Weather here is turning summery, which is nice. Doesn't get real hot here very much, but is clear and warm. Starting to think more about our trip to Maui which isn't very far away now.

Weather here is turning summery, which is nice. Doesn't get real hot here very much, but is clear and warm. Starting to think more about our trip to Maui which isn't very far away now.

Ahh, reminds me of the old [apparently misattributed to Twain?] quote... "The coldest winter I ever saw was the summer I spent in San Francisco."

Down here in SoCal we've entered "June Gloom"
"June Gloom". Typical morning weather is a marine layer that extends miles and miles inland [sometimes carrying light mist/drizzle], and at least today is expected to persist with full clouds until mid-afternoon, becoming sunny only in late afternoon. High of only around 71.

Planning to head out in the Jeep to some breweries on Sunday, though, when at least right now it's projected that the marine layer will break early and have a high of a little over 80. 

What do you guys have planned in Maui? If you've never done it, I recommend waking up [brutally] early and heading up for sunrise at the top of Mount Haleakala. It's really cool--bring a jacket though. It was about 32 degrees the morning we did it, which was ~Memorial Day. It sucks that you have to essentially wake up by 3 AM to make the drive to see it, so if you try it I recommend doing it on the first day or two when you're still jet-lagged and living on West Coast time--it'll feel more like 6 AM. 

Not sure how old your kids are or if they'd be capable, but when we went 3 years ago my wife and I did the crater hike and it was amazing...

https://modernhiker.com/hike/hiking-haleakala-crater/

It's a butt-kicker of a hike. Usually it's best to start a hike uphill at the start and downhill on the way back; this one is the opposite. You descend ~3000 ft into the crater for 8.5 miles and then climb 1500 ft on 2.5 mi of switchbacks back up to an exit point. And I didn't realize it until the next day, but the way into the crater you're on volcanic sand that requires a little more exertion to gain footing, so the next day my calves were absolutely torched. 

But even with that, it is an AMAZING hike. It's like going through multiple different ecosystems, i.e. starting out in a sort of moonscape with no vegatation due to the altitude, dropping down into some interesting plants you'll see almost nowhere else on earth (silversword), then as you get lower and into the area that sees more precipitation it's almost tropical, before climbing back out through rocky switchback trails on the side of the mountain. 

When they call it "strenuous" on the modern hiker site they mean it, so be forewarned. But if you think the family is up for it, it is truly a once-in-a-lifetime sort of hike. And if they're not up for the hike, I still recommend you drag their butts out of bed for the sunrise up there. It's worth it.

Actually, stereo gear has gotten cheaper and better.  I've listened to some sound bar systems recently that were quite good, that is the way I'd suggest for TV sound.

What do you guys have planned in Maui? If you've never done it, I recommend waking up [brutally] early and heading up for sunrise at the top of Mount Haleakala. It's really cool--bring a jacket though. It was about 32 degrees the morning we did it, which was ~Memorial Day. It sucks that you have to essentially wake up by 3 AM to make the drive to see it, so if you try it I recommend doing it on the first day or two when you're still jet-lagged and living on West Coast time--it'll feel more like 6 AM.

My teenage (at the time) daughters weren't up for waking at 3am, but we did make it to the top of Mount Haleakala in the afternoon.  Very impressive.  A must see.  Daughters still talk about it and want to go back.
In their 20's now, they still would not be up to seeing the sunrise at the top