The 50th anniversary of mankind’s first visit to the Moon, on July 20, 1969, inspired this week’s video. About 9 years ago, I submitted the music to an on-line music forum thread called the “Great Orchestral Sampler Shootout.” All entries used the theme song from “Star Trek the Motion Picture” in MIDI format. The beauty […]
My move to a new home inspired this week’s post. The video is called “Before the Big Move,” and it is intended to portray the “before” pictures of a home renovation/remodel/furnishment. It features the original music of Harry Carson and performances by Harry (bass, guitar, keyboards,) and Wayne Carson (drums.). They provided the music for […]
The nation’s birthday this past week brought to mind how far the United States of America have come as a country, a people, and a culture in the past 243 years. Events transpired, industry progressed, even the way we talk with one another changed. Researching our common language, I was surprised to hear how “English” […]
As the song goes, “I’m dreaming of a White Christmas.” But, I’ve adjusted them to say, “White Sands Christmas” because I landed in desert lands again this holiday season. The quest for dry and warm led me from California to Arizona, New Mexico, and the greater Southwest (Utah and Nevada next.) The sand dunes cover […]
Mele Kalikimaka means Merry Christmas in Hawaiian, and that is what I wish for you and your loved ones. I made it back to Oahu after a short absence of two and a half months. After seeing the family for Thanksgiving, I drove the Wander back to California, (via Las Vegas,) and hopped on a […]
Hello friends and family, I traveled in my RV from coast to coast, Pacific Ocean to Atlantic Ocean, twice these past half-a-dozen months, and to Alaska and Hawaii too. Although still in some disbelief that I drove two huge circles around the continental United States, after having never owned an RV before, without accident or […]
The map in the current title page, (which also may be found in the accompanying page “The Oregon Trail” if you happen upon this post at a later time,) depicts the route of the Oregon Trail. This wagon trail brought settlers from the midwest to the fertile fields westward through the late 1800s. Like a […]
Since my last post, I traveled through much of Florida, and started up the Dixie Highway. The Dixie Highway route pretty much follows the interstate highways from north to south, Detroit to Miami, although there are eastern, western, and central variations of the route. This differs from Route 66, which is an actual roadway from […]
Hi y’all! As I wrote in my last post, (Sept. 22, 2018,) I planned to travel to the Great Smokey Mountains for some autumn leaf-peeping action. As things turned out, so did my plans. Thus, I named the title of this post the proverbial “A Fork In the Road” because there are always fortunes and […]
I write a quick post today, before I hop on a plane and return to mainland U.S.A. this afternoon. The past week, I stayed on the island of Oahu. As an experiment, I went without a rental car for the entire week. It was a test of how easy it would be to get around […]