At the risk of bringing to mind images of Richard Nixon jowling at us with his fingers in “V”‘s up in the air, let me be perfectly clear about this…. I favor Obama. It’s been years since I’ve really felt that any president was working as hard as I’d like them to, plus displaying the [...]
I’ve been chastized lately for a lack of sincerity in my search for the meaning of life, and if you want to get caught up on the discussion you need go no further than my last post. Irrespective of the opinions of the haters and naysayers, however, I am most sincere, and just because I [...]
Like you, I have long been searching for the meaning of life. Sometimes in the wrong places, of course…the bottom of a wine bottle, the feel of an accelerator pedal of a very fast car, the rush of sexy new things to own, the possibility in relationships to experience, on occasion places to be. Over [...]
We have traveled through the Upper Michigan Peninsula, where we stayed in the self-proclaimed moose capital of the U.S., albeit a place where the owner of the RV park admitted she had never seen a moose in the 17 years she had been there, “although we have seen EVIDENCE of moose, if you know what [...]
Today we left Connecticut, leaving behind Shelton, which is a nice old town, a bedroom community of New York, and Irene’s nice family, now mine. The Sullivans have been there forever and will remain there forever, no doubt. Steve can’t go anywhere in town without knowing somebody, where I can’t go anywhere where I DO [...]
I don’t know any serious book collector who could ever mistake the stock in an antique shop for that in an antiquarian bookstore. Based on having been in perhaps thousands of the former and hundreds of the latter, I know I never could. Hey, antique shops for the most part don’t even sell antiques these days, (much [...]
When last we met I was focused on the misanthropic fools I consistently stumble over out here in RV-world, and if you are one of said fools, I’m sorry, but you know what I mean because you simply must know how awful you are, right? Luckily, some of the coolest experiences I have had recently [...]
People, mostly misanthropics like Bob T. but occasionally more normal people as well, have asked me, from time to time, to comment on the types of people we run into on the road, and for the most part I don’t, because I really don’t like that many people and the more I see of them [...]
There are malls, and then there is THE Mall, where we spent today, at the National Archives and later at the Smithsonian…more accurately at one tiny, little, bitty almost insignificant part of the Smithsonian. And, since you, like Irene and I, are a seasoned traveler and have been here before, you know exactly what I’m [...]
KOA stands for, irritatingly, a perhaps intentially-mispelled Campgrounds of America, and apparently at one time was a force among RV Campgrounds, and still might be if you still habitually harbor the small, young, loud and unwashed, and by this I don’t mean you…you are certainly no longer young…but it does include your children, or at [...]