I am sitting in Charlotte waiting for a very stubborn Hurricane Florence to roll through North Carolina. Not just sitting but sitting in an empty apartment waiting for her. Charlotte is about 175 miles from the coast. I have been waiting for this b… er fine young lady to get busy. We have been watching the progress for the past…
My original plan after Amsterdam was to go to Denmark by Bus or train. After some research and some curious looks when I revealed that route to others, I learned that the scenery along the route is far from spectacular and a direct flight was way cheaper. So saving time, money and mind numbing boredom. And for the sake of…
I had a nice week at the Crash Pad Hostel in Chattanooga. It was a slow week in Chattanooga so I pretty much had the whole place to myself. Chattanooga is growing on me although I might get bored there pretty quick. Seems like most people there are either young or married, neither of which are in my future that…
For those of you keeping track, I have moved on from my 3 month stay in Cleveland. My Handyman skills were stretched pretty much to their maximum usefulness. I felt bad that I was getting room and board in exchange for on the job learning and daily roam arounds of the Lowes and Home Depot. Cleveland itself was good but…
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 get a paper cut opening…
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 of the old Route 66…
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 had to get past the…
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 one of the more fun…
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 thriving hub of the minimalist…
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 of it gets boring. But…