One thing I definitely miss about New Jersey is all the diners that were there. We frequented many of them but this one was perhaps our favorite. If you notice from the picture that gas prices were considerably different in those years!! Continue reading Diners… Freehold NJ 1999

Before our New Jersey years we lived in a house on the north side of Indianapolis. While we were there we “adopted” two of the neighborhood cats that came to our door about to have kittens. Big Red, as we named him also came to our door for his regular dinner. He was a scraggly cat and looking at his ears and belly it was … Continue reading Big Red…

It wasn’t the end of the world just the end of Oprah. Continue reading A Slight Miscalculation….

Here is one in Staunton Virginia near the Frontier Culture Museum. If you are ever in the area the museum is well worth the visit. Continue reading Staunton, VA – April 2011

It seems I am drawn by bronze statues of people lately 🙂  Anyway here is one of Minnie Pearl from the Grand Ole Opry. Her most famous line was  ”How-dee!!! I’m just so proud to be here!  I was not a regular viewer of the show so the name of the other person in the picture escapes me right now. Continue reading Grand Ole Opry, Nashville – April 2011

I must admit up front that I have never been much of a country music fan. The folk music of  Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Peter, Paul & Mary consumed my music tastes during my earlier hearing years. But I did occasionally watch for a few minutes of the Grand Ole Opry when it was on TV in the 1960s. Some of those characters were quite entertaining! So … Continue reading The Grand Ole Opry…

I see where Indiana’s Governor just signed a law to take another layer of healthcare away from those who cannot afford to pay on their own.  He is de-funding Planned Parenthood because up to 3% of what they do is abortions. The other 97% are for completely other things. This brings up the title for this post.  It seems the Republicans insist on yielding a merciless meat cleaver where … Continue reading Merciless Meat Cleaver vs. Compassionate Scalpel..

Here is a pretty good place to eat that is just down the road from the USS Wisconsin in the previous post. It is pretty much “old school” but well maintained and seemed to have a pretty good following for at least the Sunday we were there. Continue reading Freemason Abby @ Norfolk VA – April 2011

Here is one of the final destinations on our trip in April of this year. Since my great-grandmother was a Shawnee squaw I have a definite interest in native american culture and history. In some ways I value that part of my heritage more than the European parts. The Museum of the Cherokee Indian is in Cherokee, NC. Of course one of the most remembered … Continue reading Museum of the Cherokee Indian

This looked like a working farm but I couldn’t figure out the white fence. Continue reading Northern Wisconsin – October 2010

I’m going to do a restaurant review here. No I am not Tony Bourdain but then again I didn’t need any reservations to get in.  The restaurant is called Salsa in  down town Asheville North Carolina. We ate there during our recent trip through West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, and Tennessee. I know this is NC and not on the list. We didn’t actually know we were going to go … Continue reading Salsas….

OK, here is another shot at trying to decide what we in the U.S. are true experts about and therefore export more of than any other country. I don’t claim to be a sage about this sort of thing but I think I am on to something with this one. Is there a commodity that the U.S. exports much more of than any other country? Could … Continue reading America's Number One Export? – Part 3

This is a continuation of the search for the U.S. number one export. Is there a commodity that the U.S. exports much more of than any other country? Could our number one export be Bravado (some call it Machismo)? We certainly like to strut around and show the world how “manly” we are. I wished it didn’t but this even seems to apply to some … Continue reading America's Number One Export? – Part 2

Here is one from North Carolina. We only skirted the State so it is the only barn we saw there. Continue reading North Carolina – April 2011

This post will start a series on the search for the U.S. Number one export. It is widely known that the U.S. has a mammoth trade deficit. We import much more than we export. I can’t understand why this isn’t considered a factor in our current government deficit talks. Sending all those $billions to foreign makers seems just as, or maybe more detrimental, than the government borrowing money much of … Continue reading America's Number One Export?

The picture above is of the Battleship Wisconsin. Running around on the decks gave me an eerie feeling remembering all the massive shells fired from those huge guns. There was much collateral damage in those days. Continue reading Norfolk VA – April 2011

When I was in the corporate world I flew to different parts of the country and Mexico on at least a monthly basis. When I started flying business more than forty years ago it was a somewhat luxurious thing. Often I would get a pretty good meal returning home from business trips. And when we happened to end a meeting a couple of hours early we could … Continue reading I Don't Fly Anymore….