Ooo, let’s go up there! Amanda has seen the condors in the distance, soaring over the bluffs in Pinnacles National Park, and she wants a closer look. So, up we go. A girl – no, young woman – after my own heart.
Been more than a year since I’ve seen Amanda, Colin or Marcia. Hundreds of...
Feb
16
The Crying Scene
In the movie, it would start raining. In life, it did. Stay at home order lifted and a four-day weekend means four thousand miles is doable. No less an authority on cars that Mr. Clarkson himself declared the world’s fastest car is a rental (extreme example here), so there I am standing at the...
Jan
01
Do-overs
Been a year. One whole ride around the sun. Three hundred and sixty-five dawns and, after that blinding yellow orb sinks into the Pacific just down the street, just as many sunsets. There were twenty-five rodeos round the hydrogen gas bag before I met her, but that was just fate taking enough...
