Sunday afternoon Greg sent a message “what’s the rain plan?”, referring to our La Fete de la Saint -Jean-Baptiste scheduled for 5-7 p.m. at the Henry Sibley Historic Site at Mendota. The day had been threatening, but it appeared the skies would clear. But you can’t predict Mother Nature, and enroute to the event, rain […]
Iran – June 22, 2019 Yesterdays banner headline in our local paper, Minneapolis StarTribune, blared “Trump orders, cancels Iran Strike”. Already, of course, Trump is about the business of evading responsibility. The only safe way to deal with Trumps communiques, of any kind, is to believe nothing he says, rather than gamble on the random […]
Thinking of our now complete voyage to the northwest and a piece of California and Colorado, I kept thinking of the toe-tapper, City of New Orleans. Listen to Arlo Guthrie sing Steve Goodman’s 1971 song here. We spent our 14 days nowhere near New Orleans, and rode the rails near 50 years after the song […]
NOTE: I will be offline June 1-15, ‘riding the rails’ to the west coast. * You never know what will blow in off the internet. Friday came an e-letter about Paul Schurke and Dmitry Shparo, who co-led the U.S. Soviet Bering Strait Expedition in 1989. The 30th anniversary of that expedition is June 3. The […]