Actually posted on May 15 — catching up with daily expenditures.

I spent most of the day traveling home.  I had a connecting flight through Chicago but we weren’t allowed to deplane.  I should have purchased a bottle of water once I was through airport security but never got around to it.

That left my only expense for the day being an $11.00 bus ride from the airport out to a bus station near our home and a $1.00 tip for the bus driver who loaded and unloaded my two suitcases from under the bus.

Actually posted on May 4 — still traveling but finally in a location where time and internet access are available at the same time.

Toll Charges — $12.00
More expressway toll charges.  They’re almost unheard of where I live but here in the East they seem to be a fact of driving life.

McDonald’s — $1.15
Can you believe what they charged me for a single plastic bottle of thoroughly-conventional milk — probably chock full of growth hormones and antibiotics?

Rite-Aid — $15.97

• case of Aqua Fina water bottles — $6.99
• Hagen Daz vanilla ice cream — $3.99
• Pringles potato chips — $1.99 (for my mom)
• 2 Starbucks frappuccino bottles — $1.50/ea. (for my mom)

Sally Beauty Supply — $1.80
A pair of fingernail clippers — and they actually work!  Has anyone else had trouble finding a decent pair of nail clippers since the post-9/11 airline restrictions?

Actually posted on May 4 — still traveling but finally in a location where time and internet access are available at the same time.

Expressway Toll Charges — $8.00
In this part of the country, we made good progress but not without a cost.