My car is packed and we are ready to leave Tucson, Arizona and begin Week Ten. This may be the final week of my road trip. I will stop first for a nice breakfast (Jerry has already had his breakfast of dry food covered with sardines in oil as well as about 6 sausages from Read More

Starting the long final push west, from and through Texas to the Pacific Ocean. It will be approximately 1,350 miles from San Antonio to Los Angeles. I will be going through the Arizona desert, and I expect it will be hot in the daytime and cold at night. I am already at 10,371 miles for Read More

Conventional wisdom says that the Dems are doomed to suffer a severe midterm election defeat that will cost them control of both the House and the Senate. After all – since 1938 the party of the incumbent president has lost seats in the House in every mid-term election except for two. In fact since World Read More

Week nine of my “last big road trip begins” (I am just about to reach 10K miles) and I am finishing up the last day of my long weekend in New Orleans. A couple of thoughts. New Orleans truly is one of the great American cities. I know some will disagree about the exclusion of Read More

At the beginning of the trip, I stopped in Pensacola and had a lovely time. I stayed at a Hyatt Place hotel near the airport and relaxed after the long initial drive across the country from LA. I enjoyed the dog parks in Pensacola but discovered that the high lite of each day was taking Read More

People have asked so I will try to answer the question about how I planned and managed this big road trip. I started out with two specific goals with locations and dates. I wanted to attend the Key West Literary Seminar in early January, and I wanted to attend the bat mitzvah of my dear Read More

Today marks the end of what I have grandly called “my last big road trip.” I am in Sarasota, Florida visiting my cousin Rosie who is from the Alaska side of my father’s family. A slight digression into family history is probably appropriate. My dad grew up in a Jewish family in Berlin. He left Read More

In 2016 I believed (and still believe) that Hillary Clinton was perhaps the only Democratic candidate that Donald Trump could have beaten. Ultimately twenty states (totalling 125 electoral votes) were won by the Republican candidate by more than 10 percentage points, thirteen states (totalling 174 electoral votes) were won by the Democratic candidate by more Read More

My road trip began on Monday December 20 and I am now into my seventh week. I am coming back down south and will be passing 8,000 miles shortly.. When I first began visualizing this road trip I looked at the map and the roads from Oregon down the coast to Southern California and across Read More

My trip up to Vermont/New Hampshire was wonderful but I managed to get out BEFORE the expected Northeaster arrives. I got to visit with my old friend and neighbor Bob Belenky who now lives in a quaker retirement home in Hanover New Hampshire and got to take a lovely (off leash) walk Jerry and Bob’s Read More