Archive for May, 2008

Getting there -

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Gas hit $3.95 here yesterday. Wonder if they’ll hold off posting the very real, not-so-symbolic $4.00 per gallon before Memorial Day weekend, which AAA considers the start of the summer travel season?
I don’t see too many tourists coming way up this way. Unfortunate, because tourism spending trickles down in small towns in so many […]

$3.79

Friday, May 9th, 2008

And I thought the $3.74 gas price in town a few days ago was high. This is today’s news.
Still, we have seen worse. When we drove across Long Island last week for Frank’s nephew’s wedding, $3.75 was the lowest we paid, and that was a deal. Signs of $3.99 were common. Knowing that back home […]