It’s only fair…
Take the guess work (and the preterconscious bias) out of choosing a half-way point at which to meet– use Meetways… enter the two starting points– any two starting points– specify a type of destination (pizza joint, coffee shop, whatever), and viola!
Your correspondent and his Asheville-based brother, for instance, might convene at Big Red and Betty’s Sugar Shack in Lamar, CO…
As we recalculate our routes, we might recall that it was on this date in 1648 that the first labor organization in North America, The Boston Shoemakers, was founded by charter of the Massachusetts Colony.