[speaker001:] and uh what part of Virginia um
[speaker002:] uh I live down in the south western part of Blacksburg
[speaker001:] Blacksburg okay I've been
[speaker002:] uh-huh have you ever heard of Virginia Tech
[speaker001:] sounds vaguely familiar
[speaker002:] VPI
[speaker001:] yeah okay
[speaker002:] yeah okay that's
[speaker001:] yeah I I hadn't been down in that part of the state really
[speaker002:] uh-huh okay
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] well we vacation a lot how about you quite frequently
[speaker001:] uh I wish we did
[speaker002:] well retired early so we're we take trips pretty often
[speaker001:] oh okay where all you guys go
[speaker002:] well we go to Maine every Fall
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] then that's kind of a family visit and a vacation all up and down the coast
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and I have a daughter in Texas and one in New Mexico so we go out there and we go to Florida
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] and down oh we were just out recently at the outer banks of North Carolina
[speaker001:] all these places that I've never been
[speaker002:] is that right where do you go
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] what type of vacation
[speaker001:] well it really depends I mean uh seems like I do a lot in the Midwest lately um my um fiancee's family's from Wisconsin
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and so we've been out there a couple of times and um I uh went to Purdue for a couple of years so I've gone up to Indianapolis on occasion to visit friends
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and um uh I'm a real big baseball fan so I usually try to combine it with uh catching a couple of games somewhere
[speaker002:] uh-huh what club do you follow
[speaker001:] I'm uh I'm a big Red Sox fan but uh I uh oh you're you're a Red Sox fan too
[speaker002:] red sounds good me too yeah uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh I usually try to catch whoever's in town though I don't specifically I you know go to Cleveland to see them play the Red the Indians play the Red Sox
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] um uh that's about it we don't I mean we do a lot of little trips around here um and um
[speaker002:] ever go up in Pennsylvania in the mountains or
[speaker001:] not that much we've gone out to um uh a place in western Pennsylvania called Falling Water uh
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] have you ever heard of it
[speaker002:] I've heard of it I've never been there
[speaker001:] yeah it's it's really neat it's this house built on on a waterfall and it's uh really cool um of course we keep picking crummy weather to go out there uh the first time we went out there was uh the day after hurricane Hugo had come through
[speaker002:] uh-huh  oh gee
[speaker001:] so I mean they they didn't have any power and it was really cold and and rainy and uh we went up about a year later and it was better but not a whole lot better
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] so um where else did we go um we've gone to Richland last year and uh had a good time down there
[speaker002:] oh did you did you go down to Williamsburg have you been down there
[speaker001:] um my girlfriend has with her sisters but I haven't been down there um I hear that's nice we're going to get down probably down Norfork sometime this Summer just to see why catch a baseball game actually
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh  we were down well when we came back from the outer banks we came up due Norfork and spent a night there with a friend in Portsmith and then went to Williamsburg and spent a night
[speaker001:] hum spend a day and a lot of money
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] yeah I've heard uh I'm not real interested in Williamsburg because of the of the price attached to it we just we I
[speaker002:] yeah but it's a pretty neat town to just go and walk around if you like to walk it's a good town to just walk in
[speaker001:] hum yeah we all do that
[speaker002:] you can go to the buildings and not go in if you're not
[speaker001:] oh okay so I can wander around without
[speaker002:] yeah you can wander it's a good town to wander in
[speaker001:] oh okay I just have it pay somebody to get into the buildings
[speaker002:] that's right
[speaker001:] oh okay I didn't know that yeah I think um you know they do the whole with you know paying a ridiculous amount of money to get get into one thing or another but they had a good time so
[speaker002:] yeah  we didn't do that really this time we just uh visited around
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] we've done it a couple of times and that's enough for us probably another twenty years
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah I was um we use it live in California and um my um up up around San Francisco and um there was one year when my father was uh my father's company was starting to to do stuff down in Los Angeles so my father was working down in Los Angeles for like um six months or so um actually I think it was closer I think to a full year and you know we'd he'd fly down there on Mondays and fly back on Fridays well any time we had a school vacation or something like that we went down to Los Angeles so I saw I went to Disneyland about five times in one year and I really have no great urge to go back now
[speaker002:] oh that's great as a kid though isn't it I mean
[speaker001:] oh it was great because uh well the times that were really fun were when uh we had vacation but the kids in Los Angeles didn't so we basically had run of the park um
[speaker002:] uh-huh right
[speaker001:] Disneyland I mean there's still a lot of people at Disneyland but there was another um another amusement park down there Busch Gardens um there was nobody there when we were there we got we won a log floating ride like five straight times we just get get done with them and they go oh do you want to go again and we'd say sure
[speaker002:] have you ever you've never been down to Epcot at Florida and Disney
[speaker001:] no I'd like to sometime but
[speaker002:] that's good we we really enjoy that we've been two or three times and probably go back again this winter
[speaker001:] yeah I've never been the farthest south I've been on the East Coast is Charlotte so I um keep wanting to get south further you know I thought I would go to Florida a couple summers ago but never did it
[speaker002:] oh uh-huh Charleston is a really nice place to visit
[speaker001:] my um my sister lives in Charlotte and they've gone to Charleston a couple of times and had a real good time
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah it's a real pretty place
[speaker001:] um yeah one of these days we'll get down there although I don't know when we're going to have vacation to do it we're um we're planning getting married in about a year and our honeymoon we're going up to this um
[speaker002:] oh are you
[speaker001:] um place in Wisconsin called Door County it's up by Green Bay it's a place my girlfriend's also wanted to go and um
[speaker002:] uh-huh or is it on uh one of the lakes
[speaker001:] it's um uh I don't if you've ever seen a map of Wisconsin but there's kind of like a little a little thing sticking out uh in the Lake Michigan that's Door County
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh okay that would yeah that would be really nice
[speaker001:] so yeah they call it the Cape Cod of the uh the Midwest so um
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] we're thinking that'll be a lot of fun she um she had this uh book of pictures from it that were really nice kind of like a travel guide
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh sounds good
[speaker001:] so um that that should be a lot of fun
[speaker002:] well I don't know what our next trip will be I guess our next well I know what my next trip I'm going to be a grandmother in July
[speaker001:] ooh oh boy
[speaker002:] the first the first one so my next trip is going to be to Texas
[speaker001:] oh that'll be fun
[speaker002:] yeah in the middle in the middle of the summer
[speaker001:] well yeah you won't even notice it though
[speaker002:] well they'll be air-conditioning anyway so
[speaker001:] yeah is that is that how you got into this uh this you know uh on the data base
[speaker002:] yeah my daughter's working as a temp at Texas Instruments and working on this project
[speaker001:] oh okay yeah I was I was just I mean most of the people I've talk to are from are from Texas so when I you know when I heard you were from Virginia I was like oh okay there's somebody different and you said oh I got somebody down in Texas I go okay that the connection right there
[speaker002:] uh-huh  that's it yeah I talked to one in California I never asked him the other day how he was connected I don't think he was TI employee
[speaker001:] um I um most people talk to Texas there's been a couple of other the people um most of whom are like me that work in in speech labs that are going to use data base eventually
[speaker002:] oh I see
[speaker001:] so um it was fun I actually yesterday I ended up talking to somebody else from the same lab I'm in
[speaker002:] is that right well we spent last week end in Charlotte with real good friends that had just moved to back East from Oklahoma and she's uh working on this project too I mean she's talking
[speaker001:] ooh um-hum
[speaker002:] on the project too and uh we got back Monday and I got a call yesterday and it was her on TI Network
[speaker001:] um-hum uh that's neat I haven't uh I haven't had something like that happen just uh just getting the one guy from the lab
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] um you're sure have a nice town uh my uh sister lives on Lake Norman
[speaker002:] oh does she yeah that's nice out there
[speaker001:] just yeah um we keep wanting to get down there and visit them over the summer and it's never really works out
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah it's real pretty
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] well
[speaker001:] traffic not much else we do for vacation really uh just so we don't haven't been able to take really any
[speaker002:] are you a golfer no me either
[speaker001:] no no are you guys golfers or
[speaker002:] no huh-uh nope
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] not too much into sports
[speaker001:] except our outside though
[speaker002:] just walking that's all
[speaker001:] oh I don't think there are any trying to think if there are any minor league teams down in that area and I'm know real sure there are um
[speaker002:] no professionals
[speaker001:] when um I was thinking I might be minor league but
[speaker002:] oh there's one in Salem Salem Rebels
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] Salem Rebels
[speaker001:] hum
[speaker002:] Buccaneers oh okay
[speaker001:] Buccaneers yeah um yeah I maybe seeing them um in a town just west of here Frederick has a um has a minor league team that plays in the same league with Salem and uh I think we may be seeing them this weekend
[speaker002:] oh is that right up there in Frederick uh-huh
[speaker001:] yeah I think they're out of town yeah um that's a nice little town actually Frederick um
[speaker002:] I've never been up there I've never visited Baltimore I'd like to go just sight see a little bit sometime
[speaker001:] oh there's there's some nice things in Baltimore you know the Inner Harbor and the uh the Aquarium and all that are very nice um they've just done a um you known I you know the Aquarium is one of those things that you know because everybody
[speaker002:] uh-huh