For the last couple of years, I have noticed that my driving skills have degraded somewhat. Heck, everything about me has degraded to some degree. As we all say as we are getting older, “It sucks getting old”. It does really suck because my mind is as clear as ever except that I can’t remember…
Or as the Gullah spelling shown was D’fuskie. The island has been inhabited for thousands of years though most of that time was by numerous Indian tribes and mostly the Muscogee tribe which also provided the name meaning sharp feather describing the shape of the island. The Spanish date back to the 1500’s as having…
In all the travelling we have done, we never ventured to the deep south on a vacation. I’m not sure what we expected to see, taste, or experience, but it’s nothing like the imagination you build. Oh sure, we’ve flown in and out of Atlanta airport, but it hardly is representative of the south. I…
We are nearing the end of our safari leg of the South African journey. We have developed friendships, experienced first-hand life in the bush… well kind of and have seen animals that we have watched countless hours of on Discovery and Animal Planet. Our bush life in no way compares to the Europeans and North…
We left Texas with lowering temperatures and autumn just around the corner to travel half-way around the world to the origins of man, eighteen hours later arriving in Johannesburg in the evening. We both were dreading the flight almost as much as the excitement for arriving at the first of three resorts. I was surprised…
I’ve been on quest to find the perfect brew pub. Not perfection on some magical scale, no, my quest is fueled by several things making a place perfect. The reality is that there might be, nope, definitely will be many by my standards. Amber, porter, stout, and an occasional fruity wheat ale if in California….
This trip is turning out to be a pretty challenging one. We left yesterday and was pretty uneventful until about hour number ten. Drain Water Separator warning message comes on. If you don’t know what this is, well it is particularly important for diesel engines to remove any moisture that might accumulate in the fuel….
Jen and I have been seeing our anxiety climb and tolerance decline as we have gotten further into the huge landscape project we initiated and now the garage getting closed in for a game room and kitchen final remodel touches, well, we needed to get the hell out of Dodge before we choked someone. We…
We are on the tail end of our annual sojourn to Lake Tahoe, Napa, and Sonoma. What started out as an annual trip to hike and bike the scenic area of Lake Tahoe has turned into a mission of wine experience and retrieval from one of the greatest wine regions of the world; Napa Valley…
For whatever reason I was nervous coming to New York City. So many visions in my mind from the trip when I was a kid. The envisioned trashy streets and horrible smell were still available in my mind to draw on. Fearful of the nighttime ride through Central Park and certainly the inevitable ride on…
