Thursday, October 15, 2015

Taking the Silver Lady Bus to Hutch's Hometown

Ohboy! A friend has offered me the use of an empty house in Duluth--the hometown of one Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (David Soul).
[Related post: "Hutch's Duluth"]
 
I could soooo use a break, sitting by a Great Lake. It doesn't smell like salt, but it sure feels like an ocean.

Lookin' Minnesotan:
HUTCH: I've been in love with ships and the sea since I was old enough to read. I was a Sea Scout when I was a kid.
STARSKY: Hutch. You were born in Duluth, Minnesota. That's 1000 miles from any ocean.
H: It's 1,500 miles.
S: Then how did you become a Sea Scout?

H: It wasn't easy.
[Starsky wins. It's 994 miles as the crow flies from Duluth to Brooklyn, where Starsky grew up, near the Atlantic Ocean––
 or 1,263 miles by car.

Also, I guess the writers didn't know Duluth's port does host ocean-going ships.]

I'm taking the bus up next week. 
Will I get this driver?