#1 THE DECISION – Go/NoGo
When the Grim Reaper comes looking for me, he'll have to hit a moving target. I was shocked into this realization one day is a casual conversation. ...
#2 THE PLANNING – Bucket Lists and Travel Books
Mac and I have started writing our bucket lists. Mac’s is a short list of people and places in eastern TN and ME. Mine is several pages long just for the first year (2019) on the FL-IN-ME triangle tour. So, I divided my list into two categories: My Bucket List, and my
#3 THE PREPARATION – Tonight I become a gypsy
Tonight is my first night in the trailer. It’s been a year and a month since deciding to do “IT”. It was shortly after returning from a
#4 THE EQUIPMENT – The Trailer, Trike and Truck
It’s taken longer than planned, mostly because my stamina is not what it used to be. But it’s all coming together for departure, April 15. The front 3rd of the
#5 THE DELAY – Mac works on his e-business selling GITTY-UPS.
It was short notice and unexpected, since I was the tailor and catalog photographer for his Gitty-Ups. A few phone calls, and I had a new rideR. Juice was enthusiastic
A NICKNAME – How I reluctantly became L.MO
When I came to Florida, I was Larry. I went to work part-time for a professional engineer and construction inspection job-shop. Soon I was full-time and had charge of inspection teams in Florida, Kentucky and Wisconsin, where I am also a licensed civil engineer. They already had 2 Larry, a Terry, Gary,
A HARD-WIRED SCREEN SAVER FOR MY RV
As you may know the phosphors in the old cathode-ray TV screens got the picture or text ‘burned in’ if it didn’t change, so Starfield and other apps were developed to prevent this saturation. I don’t know if LED screens have this problem, but now we have a gazillion (10GAZ) screen saver
2020 ROAD SIGHTS – A Photo Essay of MIDWEST US
These are things that caught our eyes as we travelled between things on our bucket lists. We did not note their location, or stop to investigate or learn more about
2019 ROAD SIGHTS – A Photo Essay of the NORTHEAST US
These are things that caught our eyes as we travelled between things on our bucket lists. Most we did not note their location, or stop to investigate or learn more
AL, NATCHEZ TRACE PARKWAY – A Drive Through An America Long Past
WHAT WE SAW: The Natchez Trace is an all weather highway of ancient origin. It was an interwoven length of footpaths used by Native American tribes and was made by the cultures before them. The Natchez Trace was only one of many paths into and across the area bounded by the Appalachian