Foul weather met us and stayed with us on our travels homeward. It frustrated what could have been an 8-hour trip by making it into a twelve plus hour road tour. Yet w managed to get home and that is what counts in the end. Kyle and I were up before 7 am so that…

The fun part of being on vacation in an area in which you grew up is that you get to go to places you’ve known all your life. Unfortunately, I am discovering that there are very few places like that left in Crescent City. The same can be said about the town I really grew…

The sun broke through today and held its own for the majority of the time, at least long enough for Kyle and me to have a grand adventure between Crescent City and the town of Orick. That is where our travels started. We happened upon a large herd of elk as they grazed and rested…

My son and I are free-ranging this weekend along the north coast of California. We are staying in Crescent City at the Best Western across from the harbor. I helped remodel this place back in 1983 or ’84 and I used to go to sea from the docks across US 101. The rooms are quiet…

For me words are hard to come by when it I see the Trinity River that flows beside Highway 299. The water is a translucent green in some places and then boiling and raging mad in others with breath-taking whitecaps. This is framed by walls of rock covered in trees, brush and cascading torrents of’…

With Easter time upon us I figured know would be a great time to bring this subject up. Here is a question that had bothered me for so many years — jus’ where did Christ go when He died? Finally I decided to use my talent for research, analytical skills and a wish to seek…

Tonight, I attended a meeting about my son’s school which is called Legacy Christian. I ended up losing my temper and storming out of the meeting because of financial stupidity on the part of the parents. The first thing I noted was the fact that the board of directors asked to change the wording of…

First day of spring my aching arse, too! I slowly rolled out of bed this morning hoping to see a little extra sunshine than we had in the last couple of days, yet I was sorely disappointed. It was snowing! Of course I have been in Nevada over twenty-years now and I know that I…

The Reno Gazette-Journal ran a story about a local Civil War reenactor’s group educating grade school students. In the article, one of the reenactor’s made the comment that there were no African-American’s fighting for the Confederacy during that war. Knowing this to be inaccurate, I penned a letter-to-the-editor pointing out this mistaken belief. I truly…

The entire camp alerted once the initial radio call was made, “Taking incoming fire, one possible KIA, need assistance.” It was a 30 man patrol that had left the general safety of the concertina wired compound the night before. They had maintained the two-hour report schedule, until they encountered an ambush. The attack was less…