The end of the year is rapidly approaching and I am quite busy procrastinating pretty much everything I have to do, I am going to cheat a bit and post my end of year status to the blog instead of doing a Christmas card. That way, I get an easy blog entry and you don’t […]
From earlier in the summer….. After a few days driving around the blast furnace between Los Angeles and Phoenix. I had had enough of the color of brown. I was eager for some fresh air, cool breezes and a bit of green. I headed to the mountain town of Flagstaff, Arizona via as much […]
I wasn’t really planning on going to California on this trip. I just found myself crossing the border in my ongoing effort to avoid Las Vegas. But there I was, staring at the Eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Mt Whitney with Yosemite beyond. How could I turn around now? But first I […]
On my last day of work, my Xbox team took me to an afternoon Seattle Mariners game. First row, First side on a blue sky day. Quite the honor since I was just a contractor. I think the Mariners may have even won. It was a lot of fun and a good ending to probably […]
In continuing with my jumping around, last week I was in the tiny West Texas Town of Marfa. It takes about 5 minutes to drive through it. Seven if you don’t want to have a chat with the plentiful Highway Patrol Officers. In the 5 minutes, you would never know that you are in a […]
Sorry for the delay on this one. Been mostly in the middle of nowhere for the past week. The Western parts of Colorado are mostly High Desert punctuated by random mountains and Deep Canyons. From Gunnison, It was a 2 days of high desert driving which is pretty for a time but mile after mile […]
I think the TV script writers call this entry a time shift. It is when they just up and move the story ahead without much explanation other than they were tired of the old storyline. This is one of those except I will tell you why. I have been lazy about making time to sit […]
After the debacle in Colorado Springs, I lost all interest in Colorado Springs. Too bad because I would have liked to have seen more of it. But My brain shifted into drive mode and nothing was going to keep me there. I decided to drive up to Breckenridge as part of my Ski Town Summer Theme. That never […]
Very tired from the successful incline climb and impending bad weather, I thought it was high time I broke down and got a hotel room, or with my budget, a motel room. Not many people know that Motels and Hotels are different (at least according to Webster). Motels came into existence with the advent of […]
Back in 1996, I had the opportunity to move to Colorado Springs for my job, the now defunct telecommunications company called MCI. They sent me out for a few days to check it out. The short impression was that I was underwhelmed. There was just too much dirt and I just didn’t get the feel […]