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SWE 08
In Nebraska, being held by the hostiles. More later, if we survive the night.. -
SWE 08
First day across Indiana and Illinois on to the central part of Iowa. Good traveling, did not encounter any hostiles there were signs: trail markers, camp fires, broken pottery, buffalo hides, casinos and gift shops selling rubber tomahawks. Had a lite lunch at Starved Rock. We are on schedule, thus far. -
SWE 08
We are about to depart on the 72 day SWE 08. After several days of sorting and packing the “things” that we will need for the expedition we have discovered that we need a list of the lists of the things that we have packed in order to keep it all straight. All lists needed to be kept with the packed items for inventory purposes, and, therefore ( Read more... ) -
Looking for Jack
We continue our preparations for the pending trip which we have formally named "South West Expedition 08". We continue to seek funding from the French and Spanish but feel we are more likely to receive support from Togo. Getting financial support from other countries for exploration of the "New World", in the twenty-first century, is becoming ( Read more... ) -
SWE 08
We are preparing for SWE 08 which is, the South West Expedition 08, our epic 4, 500 mile camping trip, a two and a half month jaunt into the wilds of the American Southwest; the arid Heart of Darkness as opposed to Conrad's sweltering Congo. Unlike our presidential hopefuls I have chosen a running mate and it's not Al Gore, no it's Maggie Curtis ( Read more... ) -
Looking for Jack
I was poking around in the belly of our Ambassador camper looking for a pair of new blue jeans that I seem to have misplaced. While doing so I decided to measure the camper to determine the exact square footage of the practical, palatial pop-up. It is 6.5 feet long and when opened ,9 feet wide; so we are talking about a living area of around 59.5 ( Read more... ) -
Looking for Jack
This is July 17, 2008 and we are preparing for a fourth-thousand mile journey through the stomach, lower intestines and colon of the USA's, southwest then back up through the esophagus to Fort Wayne . We are working on a budget and have determined to base it on a daily allocation of our retirement pay, and that paltry amount will need to cover ( Read more... ) -
no country for old men
No country for old men (on SS and Medicare that is). Another Bush* report on the state of Social Security and Medicare shows a grim future for a shit load of old farts. The baby-boomers are retiring and grabbing the last chunk of the last American Dream that the last enlightened president put together during the Great Depression (not the ( Read more... ) -
no country for old men
Most of the energy that we consume on a daily basis comes from crude oil. Not that there is genteel oil; there is a lot of blood and human viscera involved in the procurement of crude oil: the war in the Iraq, the disregard for worker safety on oil rigs and in refineries, the fouling of the environment (Valdez) , the film industry (“There Will be ( Read more... ) -
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I read the news this morning and found nothing to get my rage up and running through the streets of Pamplona attempting to gore soft bellied Spaniards or political pundants. Of course there is the black minister in Chicago, pastor at the church attended by Barack Obama, who spoke some truths from his pulpit last Christmas concerning the black/ ( Read more... )