I have now been on the road for four weeks. (I left home on Monday December 20). By the end of the week I will be in Boston celebrating the bat mitzvah of my late college friend Jonathan’s grand daughter Ava. The winter storm that just passed was the first big obstacle. The roads in Read More

At the end of my fourth week on the road trip I have run into “weather” in Georgia. In Atlanta today it just about freezing and raining. It is projected that the temperature will drop and the roads will freeze and the precipitation will turn into snow. Lovely. More significantly there is a winter storm Read More

One of the focuses of this trip was attendance/participation in the Key West Literary Seminar (home – Key West Literary Seminar (kwls.org)) and that is now done. The Seminar gathers writers to talk on a particular theme (this year the theme was desire) and people who like writing to gather and listen. There have been Read More

As I stumbled home along the 1.25 miles of Duval Street in Key West after eating what may have been my last blackened fish sandwhich on the pier I couldn’t help but remember some of the other times I’d been there over the past 40 years. I’d been there first as a young man in Read More

I begin Day 18 of my road trip (aka “my last big road trip) on Key West, and I realize how lucky I am to be having this experience as well as how privileged I am to have lived the life that I am recalling. As I previously mentioned I first came to Key West Read More

In Jacksonville visiting my old friend Garnett. Enjoyed a lovely fish dinner and a “river fire” last night with Garnett and her spouse Cindy.. Today we had coffee outside, then went for a sightseeing drive that included touring Garnett’s lovely law office, taking Jerry to a dog park and then stopping at a fish market Read More

I arrived in Pensacola on Wednesday evening and spent three full days here.(including New Year’s eve and New Years day. My time was basically broken up into three experiences. 1) I went to the Pensacola Beach every day and sat in the dog area. Pensacola has two sections of a long beach that are marked Read More

Tomorrow will be the 14th day of this road trip. I am still at the very beginning, but certain themes are emerging. I am getting the opportunity to reminisce (mostly to myself) about the life I have lived but also and perhaps more importantly to get a clearer sense of where I am going. It Read More

I am smiling as I drive down the highway. Last week at a dog park in San Luis Obispo I tallked with two sets of people (while Jerry played with their dogs) and at the point in conversation when I told both that I was at the beginning of a long road trip and they Read More

When I was young, and working constantly on high stress child protection cases I used to love skiing primarily because I found that on the mountain I had to focus on the single thing in front of me (not crashing into trees) and consequently I cleared my mind of all other stress. Along with the Read More