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You know that feeling?
The one where you really have to pee? While driving that is. Ten miles from home, you’re doing alright. But with each mile it gets harder to hold. When you pass the old oak tree that’s leaning way out over the road you know you’re close. And that twinge hits. Oh no, you think. Am Continue reading
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Not an ashhole…
An Ashfall. The kind that spews out of a volcano. And it happened around twelve million years ago. Give or take. It also happened in my old stomping grounds. Idaho. Southwestern Idaho. The cool thing is that it’s not exactly where it used to be. Twelve million years ago that is. I’m not the oldest Continue reading
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Just like Mr. Gump
I’m on vacation. But this vacation is coming to a close. I left Keystone South Dakota this morning bright and early. I rode north and got in I-90 in Rapid City. As I headed east I noticed the traffic picking up. Still nothing as compared to back east, but much more traffic than I’ve been Continue reading
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Colorado Family Time – 2025
The impetus of this trip was a week-long visit with family. My oldest son lives in Korea. He and his girlfriend were planning a trip to the USA. During their planning phase, they settled on Colorado as his brother, their mother, and his sister all live in the Denver area. It was just the best Continue reading
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There was a time when a radio meant something…
When I was young, it was having one. And this meant an AM pocket radio. It wasn’t long before this graduated to the inclusion of the wonderful, and stereo — if you had more than one speaker — FM band. When I became of driving age it was what was in, or under, your dash. Continue reading
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Fits and Starts…
No quotes this time. Sorry. I haven’t been posting in the past few weeks. Not because I’ve lost interest, but rather that I’ve been focusing on a new project. I am writing a novel. I am already over a quarter of the way complete in my march to the rough draft. Yay! I have all Continue reading
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Dave’s Bakery
Quotes Life on a submarine is… well, different. The Navy marketed itself as not just a job, but an adventure. Which is true. It is an adventure. And just like any adventure movie it can exciting and dangerous. At times. At few times. Submarine duty is termed the silent service, which is apt as the Continue reading
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Sail on Sailor…
“Life would be pretty monotonous if the sky was always blue.” Robin Graham “One learns from the sea how little one needs, not how much. These were our islands now, islands cut off from the world of concrete and steel, from freeways and television.” “Happiness has no frontiers, that it’s a state of mind and Continue reading
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On the human phenomena of travel…
Or, “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Tennessee anymore.” “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain Continue reading
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Literally and figuratively
“Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there’s not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.” Steven Hall “Everything about your life, about your body, grows! Your cells regenerate; your hair, your nails, everything grows for your Continue reading
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