Weiserman: BACK TO THE U.S.A. and PA

U.S.A. after almost 2 years! Layla and Ed picked us up at the airport late on the night of June 1 and we invaded their house for 3 weeks!

We had decided to go back to Alaska and, after much debate decided to buy a truck with a cap on the back, put as much stuff in the truck as possible and mail the rest of the stuff to AK. We would tent-camp for the 9 weeks it would take to arrive in AK on August 18.

We had already made arrangements with Gary Kofinas to begin negotiations to purchase his home in Fairbanks;

we were going to settle on our Schwenksville home on June 21; David had accepted an offer to resume his old job with Design Alaska and I was invited to apply for a job with Terry Chapin.

The day after we landed we went truck shopping and purchased our truck that Wednesday

which was fortuitous because by Thursday I was sick and by Friday I took to bed (first Meadow’s and then Layla’s and then the couch) for about 2 weeks, canceling all our lovely visiting and trips! A visit the the ER and much aggravation later, and I was as good as I was going to get.

Poor Layla! We invaded her house, filling the living room and sitting area with all the boxes and art work that we had collected from our friends. And there it sat for three weeks while we waited for our cap which arrived the Thursday before the Sunday that we left!

When I felt a bit better we took a trip with Meadow, Sage and Noah to the Grounds for Sculpture in Trenton. What a great sculpture garden; designed to touch, climb and, of course, photograph. The greatest displays were sculpture’s grouped to look like painting of famous masters arranged outside, and those arranged inside within a picture frame that we could photograph!