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
Category: Biographical
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
Route 66 Day 21 – Edwardsville, IL to Lincoln, IL
May 14, 2015 Today marks our 3rd full week on the road; we are getting so close to Chicago but still a couple of days to go. This was a pretty short travel day in comparison with some others but we would go through Atlanta, Illinois – a very small town in size, but large… Continue reading Route 66 Day 21 – Edwardsville, IL to Lincoln, IL
Summer 2013 – Where have I been?
Wow; I just noticed I haven’t posted anything since late June. July, August and September was a combination of good and bad. In July we got to go to Chicago by train (!) to visit Andrew and Henriët and help them fix up their new house. The train trip to Chicago was awesomely fantastic train… Continue reading Summer 2013 – Where have I been?
(Semi-) Retirement
My last day of full time work was Friday March 15. I had a week off at home, then Carla and I headed off on a 2 week road trip. I’m back home this week and will return to work half-time next week. Now that I’m back, I’ve been struck by what a project-oriented person… Continue reading (Semi-) Retirement
