October 12th, 2025 – Fall has Fell; Recovering Nicely; Road Trips Soon!; Camping Hopefully Soon!


He doesn't look like he took his protein pills but he put his helmet on! Even though it was mid-80s today, I hosed the coils off and put the cover on the air conditioning unit outside. I think we are finally in the last throes of the warm weather for the year; the air just … Continue reading October 12th, 2025 – Fall has Fell; Recovering Nicely; Road Trips Soon!; Camping Hopefully Soon!

September 28th, 2025 – Packing and Travel Security


I just saw an article this morning about packing things for travel security and I just had to shake my head. I really do not understand some of the items being suggested. Unfortunately there are too many of these posts out there in the interwebs. You can usually tell by the self-aggrandizing titles that an … Continue reading September 28th, 2025 – Packing and Travel Security

September 26th, 2025 – Roadside America Travel App; Road Trip to McLouth, Kansas


(Every so often I find apps I think are worth mentioning by name in this blog. I do not get any referral fees or kickbacks from the developers, but I think they are useful & worthy of mentioning to people who read my blog. Perhaps at some point I will look into referrals so I … Continue reading September 26th, 2025 – Roadside America Travel App; Road Trip to McLouth, Kansas

September 24th, 2025 – Nature Bathing and Meditation; Good to Talk With You Again!


'If we change the way we experience the world, then the world change." - Mathieu Ricard - "The happiest man in the world" I have watched a few new (to me) documentaries lately about meditation in nature with the Buddhist monk Mathieu Ricard. In the first one they were in Argentina, and the second one … Continue reading September 24th, 2025 – Nature Bathing and Meditation; Good to Talk With You Again!

September 20th, 2025 – Sheesh!; Europe


That piece of glass I had in my foot over Labor Day weekend never came out on its own. It got so painful that I had to go to the ER on Labor Day morning to try to get it removed. They wouldn't do that so after seeing an orthopedic surgeon, this past week I … Continue reading September 20th, 2025 – Sheesh!; Europe