Looking for Secure, Indoor Storage! We are looking to add some international travel to our menu in the next couple years. As with our RV Wandering, these will be lengthy trips measured in months, not weeks. Yet, we are certainly…
Category: Thoughts and Musings
Random thoughts and more
Summer 2024 in Vignettes
Rally, Rally, Rally! We started the summer with a brief stop at a Bluebird rally in Shipshewanna, Indiana. We’ve done this rally several times before, and enjoy spending time with fellow BluebirdBrains. This year, we leveraged our time to get…
Vintage BlueBird(Brain) Rally!
As mentioned, we hosted a collection of our Blue Bird friends for the inaugural Vintage Birds Chicago Rally. A Rally is like a convention…it’s a gathering of at LEAST 2 Blue Birds in a place, for the purpose of enjoying…
Midwestern Spiral
As we wandered northwards towards Minneapolis and Chicago, we watched Chet in the NBA playoffs on TV along the way. The season ended before the championship, tho most people (except the team, I am sure) think the Thunder made HUGE…
Remembering our Friend, Bob White
Every now and then you meet a guy…Tough and rough and kind and understanding, hot to (fox)trot, good (and always willing) with his hands, going out-of-his-way at the drop of a hat, green-thumbed, gruff and soft and warm and…
Catching Up – Stops Along the Way!
The Places we visit are important to the narrative, so we’ll do a dump to catch you up… Our last missive had us in San Fran for a couple games… It’s been so long since I blogged, that I had…
Catching up – Happenings Along the Way
Our past posts have been a mix of people, places, things and “you can’t make this sh*t up.” Since we have been so un-contemporaneous, This post is less about “Places” and more about reminiscing about “Happenings.” Quite a bit of…
OKC and Points West – A Basketball Adventure with Benefits
We drove FAST to get to OKC, because there were several games in a home stand that we wanted to attend, including the Home Opener on 29 October. Since we attended Chet’s first NBA Game on 25 October, that left…
Chicago and the Wild Women of Ho Chunk
We returned to Chicago and planned to spend almost a month to accomplish doc appointments AND to attend Chet’s first NBA Game. As luck would have it, OKC was opening the season in Chicago. The check-in process at Illinois Beach…
Ontario, the Burgh and Soo (many Breweries and Wineries)
Next, we wound our way thru Northern Ontario for 1600KM and several days. We naively planned a visit to the Aidelbaum’s cottage near Kirkland lake “since we would be in Kenora, “right around the corner!” What we were reminded in…