Which way did he go?

Ran across something to bring back those old Detroit memories of all the folks who have taken care of me.

And it fits right in with my rootin' tootin' wild west way of living!

http://detroitkidshow.com/TheFaygoKid.wmv

Ed visits Fallingwater and then college

Never one to really enjoy water -- we all know what fish do in it -- I went with my hosting family to see the Frank Lloyd Wright gem, "Fallingwater."

The house, in western Pennsylvania, is beautifully built over the Bear Run. It is right over a small waterfall and set of rapids along the Run.

The quick and dirty of the house is that it was designed in 1935 for the Edgar Kaoufmann family of Pittsburgh. Kaufmann was the owner of Pittsburgh's major department store. (It was later bought out by the May and then Federated Companies.) As usual for a Wright structure it was a design no one thought would ever word, it was not what the owner thought was going to happen, and it was way over budget.

You can read more about the house at the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy web site. The WPC owns Fallingwater and teh accompanying land. At least they make it easy to reserve times for the tour and at a reasonable price. (Unlike going to the Wright sites in Wisconsin.)

Fortunately for me the only water was what was flowing below and through the house. I did not have to drink it.

I was thinking about how hard it would be to spend the rest of my life drinking water. I always figured that after all the miles water travels in pipes and such it really can't be that clean. That is why I have always accepted the idea that properly processed water is good for you.

And we all know the proper way to properly process water -- or at least a liquid -- is to heat it up and then drink the distilled product. By itself distilled water offers no taste so the distilling process should include some sort of grain, corn, or even potatoes.

After Fallingwater the whole group kept moving west to Hiram, Ohio.

Yep, All the Washington Kubiskes, Minia and Lutsen loaded into their SUV (along with about 800 pounds of other goodies) went to Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio -- near Cleveland -- to take Philip to school.

He is starting his first year at Hiram after taking a year off after high school to teach scuba diving in the Dominican Republic. And, because his graduating school was in the DR, he is enrolled as an international student. So he decided to attend the orientation sessions for the "real" international students.

Phil could benefit from some of the sessions. Many of them are designed to explain US law and customs to the students. After living overseas for the past 8 years, Phil may have forgotten some of the finer points of living in the States. Expecially important is that cops in the US usually take bribe attempts seriously and that the laws are not fungible.

So he is now in Hiram getting ready to start a whole new life.