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Second Wind

July, '03
I made a couple of short excursions during the winter, but this is the first big trip since I retired in November of '02.

The house was empty and for sale, but buyers were scarce. After sitting in the driveway for 6 months, I was getting bored. Hey, I was a gradual student once. Boredom I can take. But then the temperatures around Georgetown, Texas, started climbing. And climbing. When it reached 100 degrees, I took a long sweaty look at the wheels on this trailer. Still round. Still rolled. So what was I doing here?

I cut out for cooler climes.

I was the Tourist from Hell, or at least the Outskirts. Like in the Austin Lounge Lizards song: "I'm Number 667, the Neighbor of the Beast". I was taking a bead on salvation in the form of 70 degrees. I wasn't of a mind to compromise on cool. But other than that I was pretty open to Divine Guidance or the Advice of Friends, whichever came first.

Sometimes it's a little hard to tell the difference. These are some of my adventures...



17 Jul 03 Trying to get out of Texas
18 Jul 03 Spanish Peaks, Colorado
22 Jul 03 Lake City
23 Jul 03 At Home On The Lake
24 Jul 03 Cliff Time
26 Jul 03 A Peculiar Day
28 Jul 03 Weather, 'Tis Nobler In The Mind
28 Jul 03 Soaps at the Spa
30 Jul 03 Ooops! No Top-o-Mountain Majesties for me!
30 Jul 03 The Best Medicine
31 Jul 03 Bored with the back, already
3 Aug 03 The Spas that Refresh Us
4 Aug 03 Down to the Flats and Back
5 Aug 03 The Mountain Diet
8 Aug 03 No Flies on Me
13 Aug 03 Picture That
13 Aug 03 "That's What They Say, Sonny"
13 Aug 03 Fires Still Make Me Jumpy
15 Aug 03 BC IS on Fire
16 Aug 03 "It's a Problem, Eh?"
20 Aug 03 Onward Through the Fog
21 Aug 03 Their Country, Tis of Them
29 Aug 03 A Hike and A Ride
29 Aug 03 Learning to be Patient
3 Sep 03 Unlabor Day
4 Sep 03 The Sunshine Coast
8 Sep 03 Ferry Freak
8 Sep 03 Adventures at Sea
11 Sep 03 Headed South Again
17 Sep 03 Islands
17 Sep 03 Winding on Down
18 Sep 03 Rainy Days
20 Sep 03 Victoria Rules
24 Sep 03 The Snopes Family Reunion
1 Oct 03 Pinwiko 6
2 Oct 03 Boondocker's Attitude Adjustment
13 Oct 03 Quartering the Kitsap
14 Oct 03 Feeling Sequimish
15 Oct 03 Rain
18 Oct 03 Kindness Is Katching
18 Oct 03 Natural Selections
19 Oct 03 Few And Far Between
20 Oct 03 Round and Round and Round
21 Oct 03 Lake Bob
23 Oct 03 Dollars and Sense in Sisters
26 Oct 03 Going With The Flow
26 Oct 03 The Promised Land
30 Oct 03 Following the River
5 Nov 03 Mendocino and the Mountain Spotted Beaver
14 Nov 03 Guess Who and the Ghost Road
15 Nov 03 Mirkwood
16 Nov 03 Cities
26 Nov 03 The Shadow of the Valley
3 Dec 03 Traveler's Luck
8 Dec 03 Snow Joke


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