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

By traditional metrics, the 2022 midterms may not be as bad as some fear for the slim Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. The Democrats currently have a narrow 9 vote margin in House and a literal tie in the Senate (broken only by VP Harris. 1) The party in power traditionally loses in Read More

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