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We had an early dinner the night before last in the excellent J. Alexander's restaurant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana ( Read more... )

I'm still on the road and more travel awaits ( Read more... )

You can tell that we've been traveling a lot recently ( Read more... )

This was the "ugly church" I spoke of. I shall leave it to you decide if I overstated the case.

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What an excellent trip! But I. am wearing the wrong tie right now -- it's polar blue, and should be my red and black irregular tie ( Read more... )

I'm writing from the deck of the Motor Vessel Westerdam, sitting in a Spanish port in the Mediterranean. I'd be on shore, but it's raining ( Read more... )

That last post -- the long-winded poetry -- started out as this announcement that we'd be on the road a few days. I got ... carried away ( Read more... )

While traveling in West Virgina a year ago, I encountered an unusual billboard.

The billboard was an ad for a Ford Fusion: "Sticks to the road like a positively charged electron!"

I was amused at Ford directing this ad at the local farming community -- and annoyed at the science. As similes go, this one's pretty silly.

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The Sea Diamond, a ship operated by Louis Cruise Lines, sank Thursday in the crater of the Greek island of Santorini, which was once the volcano island of Thera before exploding about 3,600 years ago.

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