I have bad news and good news. The bad news: I appear to
have grabbed the wrong AC adapter for my computer and for the moment I have no
way to charge it once I use up the remaining 72% of the battery. It looks like
I took the adapter from my old computer (you remember the old computer – that’s
the one that died in the middle of Utah
last summer. It’s the gift that just keeps on giving). Fortunately there also
appears to be good news about the bad news: There’s a Best Buy about 20 miles
down the road from the middle of Shenandoah
National Park and that
store purports to carry all manner of AC-adaptive thingers. So my new plan for
tomorrow includes getting up a little earlier, doing the first half of the park
as scheduled, then taking a 20-mile detour to Harrisonburg, VA before getting
back on Skyline Drive and finishing the park in time to get to Blackrock
Mountain by sunset. The most disappointing thing about this mistake is that it
will certainly introduce more stress into tomorrow morning, much like my quest
last summer to “do” Crater Lake one morning
and get to a camera store before it closed that evening.
The real good news is that I successfully spent the
afternoon in Gettysburg
and then made it to world-famous (or not) Front Royal, Virginia
without getting a speeding ticket (more on why that’s significant another time).
