The BioBus took a nice trip to Liberty State Park in Jersey City this afternoon. It is a little funny, you get a wonderful view of Lady Liberty’s back side from the park – not a view you see in the postcards!
The RV park there is packed – I was lucky to get a spot! After I dumped the waste holding tanks, I pulled in to a spot between all these fancy RVs. Well, I have to admit to a small amount of jealousy over their slide-out sides, generators, and lots of slick gadgets. But, I take refuge in the fact that none of them can see a cell at 1000x magnification!!
Tomorrow I will move the bus to Grace Church, a few blocks away. Then Donald and I will start to work on painting. We are going to work on cleaning the old paint up first, then do the base coat, probably a light blue, and then work on the trim, some orange and perhaps copper or gold or bronze. I am excited that the bus will start looking really good!
Later tomorrow is my volunteer time with the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) group that Lynn and I are part of. Basically, you pay everything in advance to give the farmer some financial security, and then you get a share of the crop every week. It will be fun to see how it works and to see what sort of food we get! I am also very interested in developing some food sciences curriculum for the BioBus, particularly in light of the fact that we’ve been invited to Poughkeepsie for a farmer’s market at the end of October. More on that soon.
Finally, I’ve updated the BioBus mailing list – you can now easily sign-up for the mailing list on-line here: http://biobus.org/contact.html. If you had been signed up previously, your address should have been moved over. I am preparing the first mailing now which will be the Fall newsletter.