Martin's Views by Martin

Elizabeth has had another day at Centereach Library and she has finished there tired and a "brain ache". Sooooo much info to absorb and to process. So it's my turn to post a blog.

Wellllll.........

The food.

Burger King/Hungry Jacks - The Whoppers are pretty much the same. Other "steakhouse" burgers are on the menu.
McDonalds - All the burgers are called sandwiches. The fries are still pretty crappy.
Wendys, I-Hop, KFC, Jack in the Box, In-N-Out & at least 10 other chains all have similar type burgers. Sizzler is alive and well in some parts of the US (hooray)

The drinks.

Beer. 1/10. What a let down. Soooo dissapointing. Even English beer is much better and it's warm!
Dr Pepper, Root Beer, Cherry Coke and Cherry Pepsi all get a big thumbs up.
Haven't tried the wine. Missed out on the chance of wine in Washington State. There is a huge wine area in Washington State and Oregon plus all the wine areas south into California.

TV

So many shopping channels. All offer weight loss programs with adds for fast food in the middle. So many local channels. Normal channles that we have on cable are here. If you have the full cable plans you can have hundreds of channels.

Lollies

I don't think there is enough room to post a full report on the "Candy". Needless to say that Hersheys has a lot to answer for. Peanut butter cups are sooooo nice.

Driving.

If you remember to concentrate during left hand turns, make right hand turns at red traffic lights & stop (both directions) when a school bus stops and the lights are flashing you should do fine. Then there is the conversions - miles into kilometres. The GPS (3 cheers for GPS) is in miles and it gives its comands in miles. It still is weird sitting in the other seat with a steering wheel and driving on the wrong side.

Well this is Morty reporting Live from Long Island for WMAE channel 14.