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The marketing director for my book has suggested I write blog posts to keep you coming back. So, if you’re interested, here’s the blog where I display a bit of my “wayward wind” streak. It’s a world I know a lot about.
The marketing director for my book has suggested I write blog posts to keep you coming back. So, if you’re interested, here’s the blog where I display a bit of my “wayward wind” streak. It’s a world I know a lot about.
My wife’s parents lived in Wilson, Louisiana. Wilson is on the east side of the Mississippi, north of Baton Rouge and 13 miles south of the Mississippi State Line. The town was so small it didn’t have a pay phone. But you could use the phone at the general store if you wanted to make a local call and you were white.
The Creole Gardens made him feel like he should be single, drunk and slightly depraved. The lock on the wrought iron gate didn’t latch, the bananas from the tree in the middle of the courtyard lay rotting on the ground and the door to their rooms was swollen and needed to be lifted just a touch to pass over the sill without scraping.
Tug McGraw was an eccentric, left-handed reliever (“eccentric, left-handed reliever” is redundant) for the 1980 Philadelphia Phillies, a club which had not won the World Series in the entire time there had been a World Series.
Gentle Readers: You know by now that some of the travel adventures I share are current and some are not. This next series will be on a climb of Denali – Mt. McKinley. The adventures reported here happened 30 years ago, between May 19 – 29, 1984.
Black Rock City, Nevada is exactly 603 miles from Hermosa Beach. It was a 21 hour drive. I’d agreed to go to the Hollywood Bowl to listen to YoYo Ma’s attempt at the “tribal sound”. Goat Rodeo is YoYo a mandolin, a fiddle, a base and sometimes a great voice named Aoefi McDonald. They’re great but I’m still not convinced a cello works in the sound.