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The travel plans were to go from New Jersey to New Hampshire. The reality was that many downed trees or flooded sections of roads caused detours. The detours made our trip longer. Power outages caused stores to be closed. Bathrooms were a problem. When one was available, there were long lines. The amazing thing was that people helped each other by sharing information from smart phones or general information they had. Everyone was very friendly.

Having twitter along for the ride makes the experience a lot more interesting.

God Bless all of you. We hope Hurricane Irene did not damage you too much.

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Baking gluten free requires a lot of ingredients that one does not normally use. For instance, instead of using a cup of flour, you may have to use four or more flours to make the gluten free flour required for a recipe. It is easy to spend a lot of money to do the basic gluten free set up. Fortunately, there are many packaged mixes, such as pancake and waffle mix; biscuit mix; brownie mix; chocolate cake mix; etc. On our way to Pennsylvania we stopped at my brother’s place for one night. He had made two kinds of bread and biscuits. One bread was divine. One bread was hard as a brick and sort of tasted brick like too. The biscuits were heavenly.

When we returned for the weekend, my brother had lots of perfect bread and biscuits. He also had perfect steak, perfect spare ribs, perfect waffles, perfect turkey, perfect everything there was to eat.

Steve and I shared the hurricane Irene weekend in New Jersey with my brother Gene, his wife Judy and our niece Melody. We had fun, laughed a lot and ate way too much.

We talked about how different our hurricane experience was this time. Using our smart phones we had news and contact with the rest of the world. The hurricane knocked out the power, my brother experienced some flooding, and the roads were closed – BUT – just knowing what was going on in the world made the experience more tolerable.

We hope you are safe and did not sustain damage. We hope you were fortunate enough to have lots of food to eat – especially food that was made with lots of love.

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To the best of our knowledge, no one was hurt in the Eastern seaboard earthquake of yesterday. We are very thankful that everyone is OK. Since all is well, we are going to continue on our vacation. We will tell you more about it soon.

Have a great day.

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We have been tweeting back and forth with Suzanne Vara for quite some time now. Today we had the very great pleasure of meeting Suzanne in real life. She is bright, beautiful, fun, energetic and just a nice person.

So why is this a big deal you ask? Well the big deal is that we met Suzanne on Twitter. We developed a relationship on Twitter. We made arrangements to meet her using Twitter.

Social Media tools like Twitter don’t make a person better or more outstanding, but it is easier to connect. Sending pics, links, and words of inspiration make the world a better place.

Every day we say good morning to our friends and enjoy the sunrise with Liz Strauss. Our life is a lot more interesting with Twitter and other forms of Social Media. We hope you are enjoying this fingertip technology.

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If you are one of our thousands of readers, you may have noticed that there was no fresh blog post greating you this morning.

Steve was out playing winning poker at Mohegan Sun (more on that later this week) and Diane was sleeping (no more about that).

Hope to let you know more about our adventures as the week unfolds.

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There is something mystical about the coast. It is always changing. With the combination of sun, clounds, wind, rain, snow and all the other elements, it is always different. On days like today, everything comes together to form a perfect day. Enjoy.

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