Being unable to get around very well is a PITA all over the place, and especially on vacation. Wheelchairs (unpowered) are fine for travel on flat surfaces, but not up and down hills of any sort. I was lucky because the folks at Kentucky Down Under helped out with their own golf carts and whatnot to get me in and out of bad situations, but ( Read more... )

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Another set of pictures on Susan’s Flickr account, taken from a day trip to Kentucky Down Under, a nice tourist trap in the Cave area in South-central Kentucky.  Sample picture below is of me in a wheelchair outside the gift shop, with the girls around me:


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First set of pictures back from our trip to Kentucky (still in progress) are to be found at Susan’s Flickr account.   Here’s a preview:


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A bit of complication to the picture; my brother-in-law’s family in Michigan is moving again, this time back to South Dakota.  They did *not* care for the poor suburb they were living in, the kids were having a rough time of it in a bunch of ways (especially recently), and I think the entire city scene really turned them off.  For some reason, they ( Read more... )

I’m kind of torn as to what to do over Easter weekend.

Susan and Mere are going out of state (driving) to a twin rendezvous with the Harrington clan for a few days.  Connie is going back to South Dakota for her taxes and some assorted paperwork.  And I have two options; go with Susan and Mere or stay put.

On the Stay Put side, it would ease the ( Read more... )

Does anyone out there have any good leads on the theories on Kennebec Man and the concept of pre-1000 AD European(ish) people migrating to North America?  Yes, I’m fully aware that it’s a wide matter of controversy.  Mormon theories not included.
Similarly, is there anyone out there who can give me a lead on the stability of Karst formations in, say ( Read more... )

• And another dose of the 50 Most Loathsome People in America (for 2005):
  • “Began his career as a seemingly skilled and passionate muckraker, but having been exposed countless times as a shameless, megalomaniacal fraud, he absolutely refuses to get out of our living rooms. “
  • “…a woman so frigid she makes Gila monsters look cuddly, rode this wave of ( Read more... )