Nothing exotic today – just a trip down the block. For the past few months, we’ve had a little suburban revival going on in our town. Years ago, when the […]

Sorry – didn’t mean to be away from the blog for so long, but the Mongolian Death Flu really blindsided me. Or bushwhacked me. I like the sound of that […]

So, on that last post, I tried channeling Jenny Lawson, The Bloggess. I figured that, as long as I was kicked to the curb by a cold and was dazed by cough […]

I’d been meaning to continue the adventures of the Dodge Colt but have gotten myself blindsided by such a cold today that I can hardly see straight. This, obviously, sets […]

Last time, I’d meant to write about the Pleasure Pizza excursion only as prelude to a memory I have of an FRA from long, long ago. For the uninitiated, ‘FRA’ […]

“I know well what the temptations of the devil are, and that one of the greatest is putting it into a man’s head that he can write a book” -Miguel […]

A roadtrip isn’t about the distance covered; it’s about the state of mind. Doesn’t matter if it’s around the world or around the block, the roadtrip is about putting yourself […]

Five thousand feet above the Nevada desert, it was hot as hell – even at ten in the morning. I wasn’t looking forward to the landing in Elko, where we […]

So I lied. Er, misspoke. Failed to correctly predict the future. Contrary to my assertions in the previous post, this entry does not come from anywhere near the left coast. […]

Friday, westbound, bit by bit. The Metro, the bus to Dulles then, some interminable time after the vapid cheerful announcements-for-our-safety blared over humorless lines of travelers, laptops out, shoes in […]