Back in 2005, Jen and I were constantly working, Jen from home as a Project Manager for a private Oncology Drug Trial Management company, and me for a certain Federal Agency responsible for travel by air as a Operations Manager and Program Manager. I worked shiftwork for over twenty-five years of my career, often times…
Tahoe Days After three days in Washington visiting our oldest son and his family, we headed onto the third leg of this journey. We had such a good time in our visit and although our son was hard at work a lot of time, we maximized our time with him, his wife and our granddaughters….
We began our annual sojourn to Lake Tahoe with a little twist this year. We delivered a truck to a friend, went to see our oldest son and his family and then on our way, finally to Lake Tahoe, joining our other son and family for a week of hiking, wine tasting, boat rides, bike…
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….
