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First, the good news. After carefully reviewing our finances, I discovered my book sale royalties were a whopping $1.32. Since most of you are polite, please don’t ask how much I’ve spent on this new hobby. Last year, I made $49.16 in book sales. Even better news! The sale price of each of our travel … Read more

Let’s face it, I’m old.  It didn’t happen overnight, but it finally happened.  I’m old and I feel it.  I wake up sore from just sleeping.  My bathroom medicine cabinet looks like a scene from “Breaking Bad.”  I bend over to tie my shoes and find my arms have shrunk.  Why bother?  I can’t see my feet anyway.  I haven’t seen them in … Read more

That’s what it cost us for a room in Salinas, California. Salinas is about 150 miles south of San Francisco and sits along California’s central coast. Salinas is eight miles from the Pacific Ocean and has a temperate climate . Salinas is known as the salad bowl capital of America. So why did the Hampton … Read more

Here are some brilliant entries into the Bulwer-Lytton Literary Contest. Submissions need to be in soon so don’t delay. If you send me your sentence I’ll forward it on and claim credit. Not so Humble submissions from literary geniuses I know.  They are all winners! Winner Shortest Novel Category Sorry, but I’m retired from doing anything … Read more

Propeller tip from March Field Officers Club Circa 1927 Fame, notoriety, and celeb status will do that.  Now being published and all, I fear being mobbed down at the outlet mall.  It happened to J.K. Rowling, it could happen to me. To calm my nerves and pass the time, I decided to try my hand – or … Read more

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost was first published in 1915 in the Atlantic Monthly. Arguably his most famous poem. Also, his most misunderstood. Generations of us grew up believing that if we took the road less traveled, went our own way, and carved our own path, it would make all the difference in our … Read more

Why write?  I’m really not sure.  Lillian and I have been recording our travels since 2007.  These blogs to family and friends were just quick updates on our whereabouts rather than a serious attempt to string together a coherent story.  Practice helped improve my prose, but the places were the real story.  The pictures chronicled our adventures and were what … Read more

Been here a few months, and I haven’t even sued anyone.  Everyone in California sues everyone else.  Why not?  I think I should.  Sooner or later, everyone does.  Maybe I’ll sue the guy who flipped me off.  I was only going eighty-five.  How was I to know that the fast lane is only for Elon Muskers?  How much coal does it take to … Read more

Montana We never saw the big sky of the Big Sky State.   We never saw blue sky at all, just gray.  A depressing shade of gray.  The gray was continuous from high overhead until it coated the Bitterroot Mountains and soaked the land.  Sometimes in layers of a fog like murk, but mostly like a painting with outlines of … Read more

Ellensburg Washington The Railroad put Ellensburg on the map, but water keeps her alive. Driving Interstate 90 east from Seattle you pass many ski resorts, hiking/biking trails, waterways and camping locations. At Snoqualmie Pass, you’ve crossed over the Cascade Mountain Range. Now on the eastern slope you descend into the Kittitas Valley. Hayfields, haystacks, and … Read more