Category Archives: travel

Did I tell you about the time I spent five weeks in New Jersey?

Did I tell you about the time I spent five weeks in Hackensack NJ?  No… Hum, perhaps I blocked it out of my memory.   No just kidding, well maybe not sorta. Let me just say a few things about spending five weeks in NJ…. wait, let me give that a little more structure.  Let me …

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Pithy left the room, but now she’s.. back

What was I thinking?  Either not much or on the flip side a lot, with the qualifier that I was so busy didn’t have time to relay the information.  Hey, that later concept works for me… As I wind down this case in the Midwest and before I begin the trek back home for a …

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Of Uncle Sam and Vineyards.

Finally, back on the road for a while, phew. Tis been a long summer me thinks and “Stir Crazy” does not aptly describe the past  many weeks, however, that was then and this is now, so we won’t beat that dead horse.  We are in moving on mode and this is a good thing. And …

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…if it’s January this must be Tennessee

…When Dorothy said “I don’t think we are in Kansas anymore Toto”  boy was she ever right on that one… Well, we aren’t in South Carolina either and like they use to say, ” it’s snowing here like a son of a b$#ch.  Well, maybe they didn’t really say that, but it is snowing and …

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..almost homeward bound

…winding down from a six-week jaunt on the road.  It this an ending or just the intro to more beginnings?  We’ll be flying home in a little over 48 hours.  Home.  Home represents so many different things to people.   I’m just looking forward to the big collapse.  You know that feeling.  You drive into the …

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…Stetsons and tennis shoes

..and cowboy boots with baseball caps… A  fusion of cultures.  I get to enjoy it all.  Fly all this way to experience the new and exciting and what do I find my self doing?  Going to Wally World  to buy a pair of  jeans.  Of course.  The store that stocks the staple of America.  Anywhere and everywhere.  …

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..Notes, thru nowhere..

So now we get to drive for a couple of hours and we are tracking Northwest up thru the valley and around the northern tip of the Salt Lake…and it changes.  The golden and red leaved trees start to disappear and now in addition to the spacious sky’s and purple mountains I have been dazzled by, I am  …

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…impressions of “out here”

..Out here things are large.  Large lake, large sky, large mountains.  In the state of my birth, my Blue Ridge Old-Timers with their sloping shoulders  really look their age compared to these perky pointed teenage peaks.   I’m surrounded by the spacious sky’s and purple mountains that we sing about and I wonder, do the people here take that to …

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