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There isn’t anything profound or radical or even very thought-provoking tonight (it’s 7:45 PM MST as I’m writing this), but I wanted to take a few of the remaining minutes of 2015 to say Thank You to my readers. Whether you’re crazy enough to follow me, or you’ve simply stumbled across The Peripatetic Traveler by random chance, you have become a part of my universe. According to the WordPress “annual report,” the… Read More
(In which our intrepid, although ill, road warrior braves the perils of commercial air travel to return safely home.) When I drove from Pittsburgh to State College on Thursday, I noticed a sign on I-99 for the Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum. Because I love trains (among other huge mechanical things), I decided to visit it on my way back to Pittsburgh. Well, nothing is *ever* as simple as that. I found the… Read More
Hello, and welcome to Day 3 of the reunion saga. In previous episodes we discovered that my reunion started in Chicago; that I can easily order too much food for a group; that the weather will be at its worst at the worst possible time (think about it – it actually makes sense); and that we love watching Drill Team and Honor Guard videos. Sunday (Mar 29) was a mixed-bag sort of… Read More
I was going to put all of Saturday’s events in one post, but then I realized I had a lot I wanted to say about the reunion dinner, so I decided to do the dinner event separately. When we left our intrepid group of reunioneers, they (well, some of them, anyway) had frozen their insides with Penn State Creamery ice cream, and had wandered back to their respective hovels – er, hotel… Read More
The Big Day! Saturday morning was another lazy time for me (I seem to do that a lot these days…), but I finally roused myself and went off to meet everyone in the lobby of the Nittany Lion Inn so we could decide where to take our “official” photos. We had agreed to meet there at 1:45, which would give us time to get all the pictures we wanted and then get… Read More
Since Friday was mostly a “free day” for me, I decided to be lazy. I had originally intended to meet with some people from the Athletic Department, to find out what their requirements would be for using one of the basketball courts on campus for an Honor Guard performance next year, but I never got around to making any appointments with anyone, so instead I just wandered the campus for much of the… Read More
As usual, I’m behind the power curve. *sigh* But maybe this group of posts, about the reunion last weekend of some of the Penn State AFROTC Drill Team and Honor Guard alumni, will be worth it. A chronological series typically starts with Day One, in my experience. My reunion started a day earlier, and in a different place, than what I expected. Hence the “Day Zero” in the subject line. In making… 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
You knew there’d be a Part Three, right? Of course you did – I said so in yesterday’s post! Saturday proved to be a very interesting day. Not only was our high school mini-reunion that night, but Tom took me to an antique-engine gathering in the morning. These engines are really interesting. They’re typically a single cylinder, and they run so slowly (300 – 400 RPM) that you can actually *count* the… Read More
… with apologies to Doc Brown and Marty McFly. 😉 Last week I flew to Dulles International Airport, rented a car, and drove to Penn State for a few days of work on the Drill Team / Honor Guard alumni reunion I’m putting together. I stayed in a Super 8 Motel this time, in contrast to the Nittany Lion Inn where I stayed in July during my big trip. (The NLI is… Read More
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