Adventures
San Diego
When I destroyed my new camera while stupidly wading into the Cabo surf with it still in my pocket, I thought that the photos on the memory card would be intact. But I failed in several attempts to read the files from the card. Then I lost the card. After being on the damn-I-wonder-what-I-did-with-that list … Continue reading
Cabo San Lucas: Snorkeling
During our week in Cabo we considered taking a sunset dinner cruise or the day trip to see the Hotel California (yes, the one in the Eagles song). We booked the sunset cruise, but cancelled due to a bout of Montezuma’s Revenge. But we did book – and took – a snorkeling cruise. Snorkeling in … Continue reading
Cabo San Lucas: The Playa Grande Resort
Since we missed the cold weather and all that ugly late-winter snow this year, some of you probably think that we didn’t need a spring vacation. You are probably right – we weren’t driven by that tired-of-all-this-crap weather weariness that we have experienced before. But one of the advantages(?) of owning a timeshare is … Continue reading
LA and other imaginary places
Los Angeles is real. I know; I’ve seen it. But it doesn’t seem real. It is bigger than real. The place of movie stars and the 4-car family. Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Mulholland Drive, Sunset Strip, Malibu, South Central, Disneyland, Charles Manson, Universal Studios, and the Beach Boys. Iconic names and images that shaped my life. … Continue reading
Walking the cheetah
Great zoos are hard to find. There are good reasons for this, the primary one being cost. Keeping a Siberian tiger healthy and happy takes a lot of money. Another good reason is habitat. Koalas, for example, eat nothing but fresh eucalyptus leaves – you can’t even give them frozen ones. Housing arctic polar bears … Continue reading
Carmel, Monterey and 17-Mile Drive
On Saturday the dogs got bored. They said, “Look, Dad – it’s not raining! A nice sunny day, kinda warm temperatures, a full tank of gas… Please, Dad, can we take a ROAD TRIP?” (Those of you who know my dogs recognize this as pure fiction. They would never say “please”.) So I grabbed some … Continue reading
Tillamook crabs
I went crabbing yesterday on Netarts Bay with my brother-in-law Chris and my niece Kim. It was not my first time crabbing – Chris introduced me to the sport a few years back – but it was my most productive. We caught 9 good-sized Dungeness crabs. Chris cooked them and I now have two of … Continue reading
Heavy weather
We are still hunkered down at the Seven Feathers casino and RV park in Canyonville, OR. The weather is awful here and worse along the coast. There were gusts of over 80mph all along the Oregon coast today, including one of 98mph at one location – that’s a category 2 hurricane. We felt gusts that … Continue reading
Las Vegas: Shows
Jett and I were in Vegas in 2005 but did not attend any of the shows because we are cheap. As much as we love Shania Twain’s music, we would rather hear it for free on the radio – or pay $10 for a CD that we can keep for years – than shell out … Continue reading
GTW Hop 8: Hillsville, VA, to Heiskell, TN
225 miles via VA 100, I-81, I-40 and I-75. Cumulative distance: 1,303 miles. It just keeps getting worse. Another day, another blowout. This one occurred at 60 mph in the middle lane of a very busy I-81 on a downhill curve near Wytheville, VA, less than 30 miles into our 225-mile journey. It was the … Continue reading