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Peewees in Adventureland
Random Road Ramblings
As some of you may know we have recently bought a “spring and summer” residence in Bend, Or., and thus have officially joined the ranks of “snowbirds” and will migrate to AZ with the rest of the pack sometime soon or at least by the end of September due to the pickleball tournaments which begin [...]
When you are throwing up it’s hard to wax poetic, but afterward it’s a different story, isn’t it?
Emeril’s Table 10 in Las Vegas is not the typical restaurant Irene and I would eat in. We are far too frugal for that, but this one time it seemed like a good idea. We hadn’t eaten at [...]
April 26, 2010 in Eating, Meaning of Life, People We've Met, Places We've Been, RVing and Motorhomes, Thoughts
When we left Casa Grande for the summer we headed for Las Vegas to hook up with son Roy and watch him play in a racquetball tournament. We could have chosen a more direct route to LV but decided in a fit of curiosity to detour a little by Lake Havasu and check out London [...]
Conventional “wisdom” discusses, among many, many other things of course, how the longest journey begins with but a single step, yes? Well, yes, but then it doesn’t go on to discuss how long that journey may be, does it? And well it shouldn’t as every journey has a different number of steps. Every fly-fishing season, for [...]
October 7, 2009 in Flyfishing, Meaning of Life, People We've Met, Pickleball, Places We've Been, Thoughts
In RV-land, many of the parks where we stay begin to seem similar. This is, of course, a matter of design….true RV parks will consistently have certain features that we’ve come to depend upon. Among them are sewer hook-ups, 50-AMP electrical power, good water pressure, aisles wide enough to drive a big-rig without forcing walking passers-by [...]
September 26, 2009 in Flyfishing, Meaning of Life, Places We've Been, RVing and Motorhomes, Thoughts
As is now ordinary for us, having done virtually the same thing two years ago, we came last Sunday to Missoula, became re-captivated by this area’s many charms and subsequently spent all of one day (today, in fact) racking up over 100 miles driving the city from one end to the other, two increasingly car-sick but [...]
September 16, 2009 in Meaning of Life, People We've Met, Places We've Been, RVing and Motorhomes, Thoughts
The title was meant as a joke. I have come to believe I control less and less as I get older. Well, that’s probably true but what I really meant is that I BELIEVE less and less that I’m in control of anything much. Let me give you one example.
Fishing in Montana has never been [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]