Introduction Yesterday, I spent time doing four of my favorite activities. I read, finishing a comic mystery titled The Trouble With San Francisco (link below). I took a few photographs, including the day lily at the top of this page …
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Introduction I used to wake every morning with a song playing in my head. That hasn’t happened for quite some time. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I woke to my own internal juke box. This morning, I …
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Introduction We’ve been cleaning out the garage and the shed and finding all sorts of treasures. Yesterday, I pulled out a mint looking Mirro Aluminum Cookie Press which must have belonged to my mother. One blogger wrote that her mother …
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I’m back from taking time off. It’s been a while since I last wrote anything new. I was getting overwhelmed between spending all my time writing, plus all the drama surrounding our daily life these days. I had to sit …
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After a hearty breakfast in Republic, it’s time to set off for Sedro Woolley, on the other side of the Cascade Mountains. The map below shows only a portion of the drive as the North Cascades Highway just opened this …
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What would you like for a road trip? Hagerty, the leading company for insuring classic cars, sends me a newsletter daily, with several articles in each. This morning’s post had a question that captured my imagination. Largely because it’s something …
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“Akasaka Mitsuke…Akasaka Mitsuke!” I can still hear the female voice announcing our subway station. Poppa and I rode several trains in Japan, but Tokyo’s subways formed our introduction to riding the rails in Japan. Don’t misunderstand me. We paid for …
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There’s a bit of a conundrum in the title of this post. You can’t drive across Jefferson County. One of four counties created by the Oregon Territorial Legislature in 1852, Jefferson County originally included all of the northern end of …
Driving Across Jefferson County Read more »
In 1990, my partner Gary and I were driving north on Division Street in Spokane, Washington. We had other reasons for being in Spokane, but Gary was looking for a car. Spokane is the largest “big” city to us. Gary …
My Triumph TR7 Saga Read more »
I just finished scanning 784 slides that Poppa and I took over a forty year period, and boy are my eyes tired. Seriously, I opened a drawer and found 26 boxes of slides that have been sitting unmolested since we …
Bracketing the way Poppa Never Did Read more »