When I was young Memorial Day was just the holiday that ended the school year, the day on which the Indy 500 was run and the day to honor our service men who died defending our country. At that time of my life the first two associations with the holiday meant more to me than [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Friends’
Route 66 Memories From 1957
And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind. ~Dave Barry
Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who [...]
Winds of the Old Days
“Ghosts of my history will follow me there
And the winds of the old days will blow through my hair
Breath on an undying ember
It doesn’t take much to remember
Those eloquent songs from the good old days
That set us to marching with banners ablaze
But reporters, there’s no sense in prying
Our blue-eyed son’s been denying
The truths that are [...]