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A few weeks ago (three, to be exact) I passed a couple of anniversaries – and didn’t even fully realize it until afterward. The fact that I haven’t written about them until now could be taken as being a milestone, although not a chronological one. I’ll explain: Three weeks ago was Sunday, May 24. It happened to be 30 months since Toni was in the car crash that took her life, and 24 months… Read More

Merry Christmas! Once again, it’s time for my annual fiction-writing exercise… 🙂 Retirement kicked in full-time this year, and with it came a lot of travel. Toni’s niece, Amy, got married in Florida at the beginning of February, and she was kind enough not only to invite me to the wedding, but also to ask if I would be a “supplemental photographer.” Since I’ve stuck my camera lens into almost every other… Read More

I was going to use Willie Nelson’s song, “On The Road Again,” but that’s been done *so* many times that I decided to do something different. Yes, Dear Reader, I’m heading out tomorrow on another sojourn. I’m driving to Oregon over the next two days so that I can participate in the 2014 Tour DaVita (https://www.tourdavita.org/), a charity ride that I’ve been a (very small!) part of since 2008. The first Tour… Read More

From The Ground Up

Chronicling the buildup of a 6x6 Jeep CJ-6

Just North of Paradise

Sporadic Musings on Writing, Art, Natural History, Travel, and Food

Plying Through Life

Travel Stories and Other Adventures

Always Departing

Traveling through the wonderment of a curious world.

Smokey the Jeep

The adventures and evolution of a lifelong dream

IHRA

The best in WWII aviation history

The Peripatetic Traveler

Thoughts about my travels - of all kinds.

Casual Travelers

because the world is too interesting to stay home

Storyshucker

A blog full of humorous and poignant observations.