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Our Story continues with John after having joined Hank and George on the dock –                                                                                                                                part 1                                 A HANK WILLIAMS STORY – part 2 – – “Lost Highway” 1949  John spoke first. ”I just got to go now. It’s been a pleasure.”  “Same here!” answered Hank, and George. “Be…

    “A Hank Williams Story – On the Bayou” takes place in Southwest Louisiana, early November, 1952. Sixteen “Hank” songs, in one hour. There is an ongoing narration between each track. It starts with just Hank and his guitar, and builds, an instrument at a time, as others join in. For a brief time, Hank…

                      ALONG THE CAPE COD NATIONAL SEASHORE  For a while, when I lived on Cape Cod, I lived in the small town of Eastham, at the southern end of the Cape Cod National Seashore. We had scored a year-round rental, which wasn’t easy. Being the tourist destination that it is, most rentals had one price…

                                           RUNNING BEYOND THE MARATHON  Besides making a habit of your running, discovering how to train for running 100 miles, how to avoid being over-trained and under-recovered, how when it comes to nutrition, less is more, and best in liquid form, and knowing the difference between being hurt, or being tired and aching, and…

                           THE LAKE MERRITT LODGE IN OAKLAND, CA.  The Lake Merritt Lodge in Oakland, CA., overlooking Lake Merritt, is now the Historic Lake Merritt Lodge. For over a hundred years, it has housed thousands, from all walks of life, and from all over the world. It was once a dormitory for the Y.W.C.A., and is…

                                               ROSCOE – RIP  Roscoe, my wife Shino’s best friend and devotee (I’m not jealous), and my co-pilot for fourteen years, has gone to Heaven. He was healthy, fit and trim, eager to please, and always ready to chase the squirrels in the park. It was “his thing”.  Up until his last few weeks.  One…

  TRAINS, TREES, AND ARROWS  I would save my broken arrows if they were still long enough to get a decent draw on my bow. Then I’d carve my name along the shaft and put on another point. I’d save them for when I went up to visit my grandmother. No, not for my grandmother,…

  We were on a van trip from Cape Cod to California via Yellowstone, back the southern route to Louisiana, and north through the Appalachians returning to the Cape. Along the way, we met Montana rancher Ellen Cotton.  West of Chicago, we picked up three hitchhikers going to St. Paul, Minnesota. One of them told…

                     4 CORNERS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST – part 3  At the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, the lush forest stops abruptly giving way to the eroded canyons with pinyon pine and juniper, and a multitude of vistas as it descends to the Colorado. It is unlike the South Rim with its steep cliff…

                         4 CORNERS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST – part 2  Comes the morning, and after taking advantage of the truckstop’s facilities, coffee, and food, we made our way to Hwy 191 and turned south to The Canyonlands and The Arches.   In The Canyonlands, more high desert mesas fall away to a landscape of colorful…