Wandering in the Weeds

Or More Fun with Vertigo Stumbling into Another Deep-Weeds Adventure If you’ve been following the seemingly-never-ending-saga of my face-plant off the trike, you won’t be surprised to learn that the fun continues. First, I fell off the trike and onto my face. The biggest results of that were 1) I busted out my few remaining …

Good Luck Seagull

We flew overnight into Heathrow, then, despite misgivings about driving a hire car from Heathrow into London proper, we did exactly that. Our hotel had no car park but recommended one nearby. We unloaded luggage — way too much luggage — checked in and hauled ourselves and baggage to our rooms. My buddy, our driver, …

O’Dells

Leesburg was, in the early 1960s, still a relatively small town that was way beyond the Washington D.C. beltway. Commuting between the corridors of government in Washington and the serenity of Leesburg and surrounding Loudoun County, Virginia was as much a change of environment as traveling to someplace hundreds of miles distant. Now, Leesburg is …

Sauerkraut and

Our mother’s people were German (Deutsch) by way of Pennsylvania. The good farmland in the “Dutch” part of Pennsylvania was quickly taken, so as immigrants arrived and as established families grew, they migrated south down the Shenandoah Valley on the west side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. These German “Dutchmen,” along with late arriving Scots-Irish, …

What is that smell?

 We don’t get out much anymore. Oh, sure, we went to Maine during that two-week period when most of the country felt like Covid-19 was beaten into a minor inconvenience. Besides the fact that a good portion of the U.S. adult population just couldn’t be arsed to get vaccinated. OK, I don’t want to get …