Dates: January 18-19, 2020 After Uncle Jake’s memorial service and fellowship at the Mountain View United Methodist Church in Cottonwood, a group of relatives went to lunch. Sally’s sister Betty had a large contingent of grown kids attend the service and lunch: two sons and a daughter along with various of her in-laws. It was… Continue reading Arizona Trip 2020 – Verde Valley
Category: Biographical
Uncle Jake’s Memorial Service
January 18, 2020 My Uncle Jake passed away in December 2019. When we visited him in November his doctor told us he was suffering from “too many birthdays”. I loved how the doctor put it. He was 91. He was my mom’s brother, the youngest of five siblings, the only boy, and my last connection… Continue reading Uncle Jake’s Memorial Service
Western U.S. Loop: Sequoia to Kingman
Travel Date: September 26, 2018 This would prove to be our longest travel day of the trip. After breakfast we packed up at John Muir Lodge in Kings Canyon and crossed over into the adjacent Sequoia National Park, then down the San Joaquin Valley and across the Mojave desert to Kingman, Arizona. Our intention on… Continue reading Western U.S. Loop: Sequoia to Kingman
2016 Summer Road Trip – Hall of Fame
July 4-7, 2016 This post deals with my favorite baseball team – the Los Angeles Dodgers; if you aren’t a fan, deal. 🙂 I don’t have a formal bucket list, but I have wanted to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York since I was a kid. Cooperstown is perched out in… Continue reading 2016 Summer Road Trip – Hall of Fame
Blog tweak
Sitting around with a broken leg makes be bored. I’m reading like crazy; but I can’t read 16 hours a day. So, I thought I’d try my hand at updating the header photo(s) that appear in my blog. Usually for each non-book report post I crop one of the topic photos into the constrained 9.4 x… Continue reading Blog tweak
