Category: travel

• cheese

  February 21, 2013

  daily drivel, Mom, O’Folks, play, travel, vacation

  With Mom in front of the original Wal-Mart store in Bentonville, Arkansas. Read.

• flight risk

  February 20, 2013

  daily drivel, Mom, O’Folks, play, travel, vacation, yet another rant

  I flew down to Arkansas last weekend to visit Mom. I used a web service to book my flight because I know bugger-all about that sort of thing. For instance, I was naive enough to think that I could simply call the airline on the phone and ask them to book a flight for me.… Read.

• Rosie

  February 19, 2013

  daily drivel, entertainment, play, travel, vacation

  Look who I ran into at the museum! Read.

• visiting

  February 16, 2013

  booze, daily drivel, food & drink, Mom, O’Folks, play, travel, vacation

  I took a little trip this weekend to visit with Mom. As she lives in Arkansas, I had to choose between driving or flying. I’d rather be the subject of almost any kind of invasive strip search than be cooped up in a car for twelve hours, so I chose to fly. And regretted it… Read.

• fifteen

  January 28, 2013

  beer, daily drivel, festivals, food & drink, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, travel

  We are exhausted after our long, long journey to the distant city of Stevens Point, where we stayed overnight after attending the 15th anniversary celebration of the Central Waters Brewing Company in Amherst. Really. I need a nap. Oh, wait, I already had a nap. Guess I’ll write some drivel, then. If, for some reason,… Read.

• family camping

  January 21, 2013

  O’Folks, play, story time, travel, vacation

  Pete e-mailed me the other day asking if I could remember any details about the vacations we took with our mom and dad in the mid 70s. I’ll bet he’s sorry he asked now, because the best I could do was vomit up random fragments of memories, and I mean ‘vomit’ in the best sense… Read.

• How to see Milwaukee on just $500 a day – Part 3

  October 23, 2012

  coffee, daily drivel, entertainment, food & drink, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, radio, restaurants, travel, vacation

  Just a bit more drivel about Milwaukee and then I’m done for a while, I promise. Almost as good as being in the audience for one of our favorite radio shows was having the great good luck to find a place to stay for the night as comfy and warm as the County Clare Inn.… Read.

• How to see Milwaukee on just $500 a day – Part 2

  October 22, 2012

  daily drivel, food & drink, music, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, radio, travel

  We went to Milwaukee to see a taping of one of our favorite radio shows, Says You! and then we almost didn’t make it to the show! It was an evening taping but we left Madison in the morning and got to Milwaukee around noon so we could have a wander around town. Then we… Read.

• How to see Milwaukee on just $500 a day

  October 21, 2012

  beer, daily drivel, entertainment, food & drink, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, radio, restaurants, show, travel, vacation

  We’re back from Milwaukee! We went there to watch a taping of one of our favorite radio shows, Says You!, and ended up doing a sightseeing tour of a small slice of Milwaukee while stopping off at a couple of our favorite places. Even as the number of things we wanted to do mounted up,… Read.

• drinking in nyc

  October 14, 2012

  beer, booze, daily drivel, food & drink, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, restaurants, travel, vacation

  One afternoon in New York City on our way back from a tour, My Darling B suggested we stop at McSorely’s, reputed to be the oldest continuously-operated tavern in America. From the moment we set foot on the sawdust-strewn floor of the place, I didn’t doubt it. The bar ran down one side of the… Read.