Tag: travel
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The Pigs of Sleepy Hollow (Part 1)
(New Format, let me know if you like it) Circa: 1968 My Favorite songs My Favorite TV Shows World Events that stick in my mind I was 10 years old in 1968. I grew up in Shenandoah, Iowa at 110 Southview Blvd where we lived until we moved to a small acreage in 1974. Our…
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Camping: Part 3
The Early Years I would never have thought waves on a lake could be so high. The wind was relentless, 3 feet forward, 4 feet back. The ballast in the canoe was not set correctly. The canoe continued to pull to the right with or without the wind. We were in the middle of a…
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Camping: Part 2
The Teenage Years As a reminder, I am working backwards in time for my posts about camping. For my last post, I described my current camping adventures in Colorado. This time I will focus on camping during the teen years. My family continued to camp up until about the time my brother and I discovered…
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Camping: Part 1
Rocky Mountain Camping I enjoy camping. At age 67, I still camp. My infatuation began when I was a kid. Our earliest family vacations used to be tent camping. What a blast! We had crappy air mattresses to lay on and they would never stay inflated. I can still remember dad cursing in the middle…
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The Blizzard
Friday the 13th. What could go wrong? And it was April…..Spring! My wife Jan and I were moving items we purchased from Colorado to Iowa. I was driving a mini-van and my wife was driving a SUV. We checked the weather and it was a go….so we took off on what should be about a…
My View from 1958 