The French have invaded.......

....Hanover? I went to Ryan's Steak and Bakery yesterday for lunch when who should walk in? About 30 French College Students. I assume they where French because they were speaking French, all the men looked gay and they gave up on the buffet rather easily. And let me tell you they actually didn't stink. I was always under the assumption that French people stunk, my bad.

Also on a side note if you remember back a little bit ago I was complaining about the 12 mpg I was getting in my explorer on my daily commute to Hanover. Well I have been driving the corolla and boy what an improvement. In the corolla I get 30-32mpg. Much better than the 12mpg I was getting in the explorer.

Railroad Crossings

Driving to work the other day I came to a sudden realization that, man I drive over a lot of rail road tracks. Then I remembered Todd blogging about his commute and the number of traffic lights and stray dogs that he would encounter on his daily commute. So here is my version of his commuting tale.

I now work in Hanover, as I have stated in past blogs. It is about 27 miles from my driveway to the parking lot at Hanover Direct, Inc. or HDI as they seem to call it here. It takes me 45 minutes to get home everyday no matter which of my 5 different ways I go. I like to see which way was the fasted so I plotted 5 different routes and timed each one over the last two weeks. It turns out they are all within 1 minute of each other, for an average time of 45 minutes. So Friday on my way into work I thought man another railroad crossing that must be at least 6. Well on Friday's trip home I decided I would count, and from the parking lot to my driveway I go through 10 railroad crossings or one every 2.7 miles. Is it just me or does that seem like alot for a place with no mass transportation?