Post 19/2025 River Preserve County Park, Elkhart County: We walked in the part of this park that starts in the village of Benton. The linear park of 358 acres follows the Elkhart River, adjacent canal and spillways. I wore my new pair of boots. Did my feet proud. The park includes historic canals, dams and …
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Walk to St Michael’s Mount
Post 14/2025. Cornwall UK. The distance added up. On Wednesday, nine of us walked 12 miles, mostly on St Michael's Way, from Carbis Bay on the Atlantic to St Michael's Mount on the English Channel. Marty stayed home nursing a sore knee. While the eight toured the castle, I spent time in the terraced gardens. …
Celebrating generations
Post 13/2025 Cornwall UK. Extended family connecting in Cornwall started a few days ago. Niece Jan and her husband John and John's daughter and her husband arrived on Thursday. Jan's daughters and their husbands arrived on Friday. Surprise of surprises to Marty and me, and slow to dawn on us, Jessie and Mike walked unnoticed …
Five years on
Post 7/2025. Cornwall UK. Five years ago Marty and I were faced with a worrisome dilemma. Return home if you can. Scores of travelers were faced with the same issue. COVID-19 was spreading around the world. The World Health Organization officially called it a pandemic on 12 March 2020. We were nicely settled in at …
Doom-and-gloom? Nah.
Post 32/2024. Goshen, Indiana. Catastrophic weather, political upheavals, Coronavirus mutations, stock market volatility, nations in war-like conflict, you'd be hard-pressed not to think life is pretty unmanageable right now. Apocalypse? Armageddon? Nah. Certainly, there are serious matters afoot. The globe is not in a happy place. Hope, peace, fearlessness, lands flowing with milk and honey, …
‘Just the ticket’ in a past police exchange
Post 25/2024 Goshen Indiana. In sorting files this week I found correspondence concerning a traffic incident of 24 years ago. It happened on May 28, 2000 in south western Ontario, Canada. On August 18, 2000, still smoldering some about the incident, I sent a letter to Chief A (I'm using single capital letters for the …
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