here’s a little ditty

here’s a little ditty

Meet Jack

I plopped down in a chair next to him after grabbing a coffee today. I had planned on taking a quick 5 minutes to get online and double check my mapped route to destination next. It’s so fun when plans change because you run into someone interesting.

As soon as I sat down, Jack said “I saw you eying that chair next to me as soon as you walked in here!” I just laughed and shook my head. Jack asked me where I was from and I told him that I was traveling. He then broke into this story about how he used to drive small country towns taking photos of old filling stations. He had wanted to make a book out of his photos. He suggested that we go on the road together and take pictures. We could write a book together he told me. We both laughed. I told him that I might just be writing a book myself. He asked- “What? How?” I told him I wrote a blog, he didn’t know what that meant so I pulled up this site to show him. As I scrolled the pages for him he mumbled a bunch of “Well I’ll be damned. Isn’t that something.”

Turns out Jack owns an Inn in Manteo, NC and a bunch of other property around the mid-Atlantic. That’s what fills his time besides people watching in coffee shops. This relaxed summer Santa look-alike had plenty of stories for me which I could’ve listened to for hours, but I had to get on the road so we said our goodbyes after an hour.

Happy summer and people watching Jack. Thanks for being my first road person for this trip.