Mt. Allison Trip - Day 1

Good morning. And he meant it!
Leora is beginning a new adventure at Mt. Allison University. So... she and I (and all her worldly possessions) are off to New Brunswick! Yesterday we covered 230 songs from 1968, used $90 worth of gas, ate bagels, cream cheese, guacamole and garden tomatoes... All of which took us 1100-1200 km.
Highlights were: A beautiful misty morning headed East, The Beatles' The White Album, The most pleasant US boarder agent ever, Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, More Stars in the sky than Leora can ever remember, The Mothers of Invention We're Only in it for the Money, and sleeping in the car in the rain.

For Apple Music listeners, here is yesterday's playlist:

1001 Albums 05--1968-1969 by Michael Diakuw on @AppleMusic.
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/playlist/1001-albums-05-1968-1969/idpl.346c76ed7c62474b9257f7ef0cca152d 

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