USA | Tuesday, 8 Sep 2020 | Views [300]
IT WAS HARDLY A BLIZZARD BUT ANY SNOW this early in September is unusual, especially after Labor Day temperatures climbed into the 90s. Although snow is possible any time in the mountains, this is the earliest it has snowed along the Front Range ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 2 Sep 2020 | Views [325]
THE BRITS CALL THEM JABS—vaccinations, flu shots and the like. So while the country waits for the sometime-in-the-future Covid-19 vaccine, Connie and I got the 2020 model flu shot at Walgreens. Not only was it covered by Medicare, Walgreens ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 29 Aug 2020 | Views [291]
WE’RE STILL HERE—MORE OR LESS. We had to abandon the condo we’d been in since April, but only to move to the next building. It’s the same layout with different furnishings—a step up in some ways and down in others—... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 23 Aug 2020 | Views [348]
THE CANDIDATES HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED, THE BATTLE-LINES DRAWN and, as Conan Doyle would say, “The game is afoot.” Perhaps Michael Buffer’s “Let’s get ready to rumble!” is more apt.
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USA | Friday, 14 Aug 2020 | Views [389]
WE HAVE VISITED SOME OF THE FINEST ART MUSEUMS of the world—the Louvre, Met, Prado, Vatican, Rijksmuseum and even the Hermitage—but the one we keep returning to—the only one we’ve been members of—is here in Colorado. ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 13 Aug 2020 | Views [395]
NORMAN ROCKWELL'S COVERS ON THE SATURDAY EVENING POST are as American as peanut butter and jelly, firecrackers on the Fourth or Mom's apple pie. Many of us yearn for the America he depicted on the covers of more than 300 issues of the Saturday ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 9 Aug 2020 | Views [249]
I SPENT THE LAST HOUR WATCHING “Meet the Press” and now "Me Depressed" Sixty minutes wasted on talk about $1 trillion versus $3 trillion and millions out of work and increasing Covid infections and 160,000 deaths and a vaccine in 3 ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 6 Aug 2020 | Views [264]
Archival entry from October 2014 journals.worldnomads.com/vagabondstoo
EVERYONE KNOWS THE STORY, how on the morning of 6 August, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the sleepy city of Hiroshima, effectively ending World War II ... Read more >
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USA | Wednesday, 5 Aug 2020 | Views [266]
Journal Entry from February 14, 2015 journals.worldnomads.com/vagabondstoo
THE IMMIGRATION OFFICER SEARCHED OUR PASSPORTS, page by page, for evidence of a visit to Israel which would deny us entry into Lebanon. No worries — they ... Read more >
Tags: retrospective
USA | Thursday, 30 Jul 2020 | Views [299]
IT MIGHT BE A COINCIDENCE—OR MAYBE IT WAS JUST FATE. Connie and I visited Denver’s Martin Luther King Memorial on the same day as Rep. John Lewis’s funeral, the same Civil Rights leader who marched across the Pettis Bridge with ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 27 Jul 2020 | Views [229]
HOPE AND CROSBY TRAVELED MANY ROADS TOGETHER—to Singapore and Zanzibar, Morocco and Rio, Bali and Hong Kong and even Utopia. Connie and I have also traveled those roads—we still haven't found Utopia—but for me, none has been more ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 18 Jul 2020 | Views [340]
AMONG THE THINGS I AM CURRENTLY reading is The 40s: The Story of a Decade, a selection of articles from New Yorker Magazine . Granted, most articles pre-date my existence (I am looking forward to reading The 60s volume) but the authors, ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 14 Jul 2020 | Views [284]
EXCEPT FOR HAIRCUTS AND GROCERY SHOPPING, all of our excursions into the outside world have been of a medical nature. Annual dental check-ups and cleaning, physicals, eye exams, mammograms, shoulder replacement, cataract surgery and twice-weekly ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 5 Jul 2020 | Views [369]
WITH APOLOGIES TO "THE BOSS," we are bored out of my minds stuck here in the U.S.A. We should have enough to keep us busy with surgeries and rehab, out-of-control Covid cases, racial discord, and a generally upgefucked political situation but ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 26 Jun 2020 | Views [348]
AS TRAVEL JOURNALS GO, THIS ONE HASN’T COVERED much ground lately. I apologize if you are one of those who rely on us for your vicarious travel fix. And while we are more or less homebound, I, myself, have just returned from one of ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 16 Jun 2020 | Views [402]
IMHO, VERSED (PROPOFOL) IS ONE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE’S great inventions. Often referred to as “milk of amnesia,” it not only relieves anxiety of surgery, it can erase the entire experience from ones mind. Even post-op explanations ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 13 Jun 2020 | Views [361]
I AM ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH SPILLOVER: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen, a writer I have followed for years in National Geographic and Outside Magazine . He is no slouch when it comes to topics scientific and ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 6 Jun 2020 | Views [405]
RICK STEVES EXTOLLS “SHOULDER SEASON” AS THE BEST time for travel. Generally April through mid-June, and September through October, shoulder season combines the advantages of both peak- and off-season travel. In shoulder season, you'll enjoy ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 26 May 2020 | Views [411]
PERFECT VISION THIS YEAR — 20/20 IN 2020 SO TO SPEAK — just might not be in the cards. Our annual visit with the ophthalmologist this morning was far from routine. Connie’s ongoing vision problems are now attributed to ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 19 May 2020 | Views [352]
TODAY WE TOOK A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE. Maybe it wasn't the wisest thing we could do but we have already survived our visit to the dentist. Besides, we had our last “official” haircuts in Auckland on Valentine’s Day, ... Read more >
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