1776 by David McCullough My rating: 4 of 5 stars While driving cross country back home from a road trip vacation on July 4 I listened to a rebroadcast of On Point’s Tom Ashbrook interview with David McCullough. At one point David noted that many Americans don’t really understand the Revolutionary War, that it has… Continue reading Book Report – 1776 by David McCullough
Month: July 2014
Road Trip 2014 – Williams, Arizona to Home
July 4 – 6, 2014 We’d travelled a long way and had another stretch of over 1,300 miles before we got home. We looked at various routes and eventually decided on the most direct taking I40 and SR58 over to Bakersfield, California then up I5 home. Now Carla and I and the kids drove down… Continue reading Road Trip 2014 – Williams, Arizona to Home
Road Trip 2014: Wupatki and Grand Canyon
July 3, 2014 [HINT: Click on the images in this post to get bigger versions] Arizona has more national parks and monuments than any other state in the union. We were heading out to see a couple more of them on July 3. We had originally scheduled only a few hours at the Grand Canyon;… Continue reading Road Trip 2014: Wupatki and Grand Canyon
Road Trip 2014: Family in Cottonwood
July1/2, 2014 After a few nights on the road it was nice to pull into my uncle and aunt’s home in Cottonwood, Arizona where we would spend a couple of nights to get rested for our Grand Canyon trip and the road home. As I mentioned in an earlier post we hit some stormy weather leaving… Continue reading Road Trip 2014: Family in Cottonwood
Coney Dogs – Take 2
I enjoy reading in Cooks Illustrated and Cooks Country about how they try dozens of iterations of a recipe to get it just right. pon further reflection, I downgraded yesterday’s Coney Dog attempt to 2 stars. The biggest variable was which bottled chili sauce to try as the base. That could go on for a long time and… Continue reading Coney Dogs – Take 2
