Have been under the weather since returning. Clearly I no longer have the staying power I used to have. Slept and slept today. Here's the Palma pix: Trams in Soller. Western Coast on the road to Valdermoss. Interesting building that looks a lot like those of my
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Been Busy.
Have been exceptionally busy-my trip finishes up today. On the plane tomorrow. Posting will resume this weekend.
Continue readingPalma
And we are back. It was a great trip and I had forgotten how much I really like Palma and why its a great liberty port on so many levels. Now this particular trip was a different one for me in that I ventured out from the area between the
Continue readingFunny joke told by a beautiful woman….(III)
Another installment in the series-reprinted from Esquire Magazine. But the woman is my own choice from Asia Sirens! A lady asks a man at a bar what he's drinking. "Magic Beer," he says. "What's so magic about it?" she asks. He gets up and flies around the room.
Continue readingReturning to the scene of the crime.
Tomorrow I will get on an airplane and fly to sunny Palma de Majorca. I am going back to pay my respects to a whole lot of dead brain cells I killed in that port in various port visits during my mis-spent youth. I have not been there since 1995.
Continue readingAnother of Uncle Vern’s mistakes to be corrected?
I hate the Aquaflage uniform. With a passion. I am so glad I did not have to wear it-having retired before they became mandatory. I do regret not getting to wear Service Dress Khakis however. Now it would appear that the Navy may be coming to its senses. Or may
Continue readingThe trouble with sequels…..
Expat @ Large finds several of them with the lastest installment in the Bourne Series: c – the surprising absence of girly-bars and other sex-tourism establishments as the camera pans up any given road, street, lane or ever-narrowing alley. Needless to say all of these establishements are owned, managed, and
Continue readingSaburo Sakai
Today is the birthday of Saburo Sakai. For those who don't know him or of him, he was a Japanese Fighter pilot and a great warrior. He had a wealth of harrowing experiences during the war and after the war became became a Buddhist acolyte and vowed he would never
Continue readingThe forgotten war….and the forgotten people
Not that any Americans might have noticed this week, but the 2000th American died in the War in Afghanistan this week. I mean, its hard to pay attention to the tragic sacrifice of brave young men-when there are such meaningful issues like "what is real rape?" to argue about, after
Continue readingColmar
On Sunday the S. O. and I drove the circle-heading south to Freiburg-and then over to Colmar, France. The journey almost ended before it began. While leaving Stuttgart-we came upon the ever present construction that is on going between the city and the town of Herrenberg. German traffic laws require
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