Lincoln Highway presentation… photo by Joe I recently attended a presentation on the Old Lincoln Highway. It was the first trans-continental road for motor vehicles in America. The highway stretched some 3,333 miles, from New York City to San Francisco. … Continue reading →
Before moving to the inner city of Cleveland, we lived in Bluffton, Ohio. I used to take the kids to watch the Bluffton University Baseball Team. Some of this year’s team members died today in a tremendously tragic bus … Continue reading →
I’m just finishing the update on our position paper on “the Environment.” In it I mention meeting with David Orr, one of the top environmentalists in the country and the head of Oberlin College’s Environmental Science Department. He told me … Continue reading →
We drove further south to Lufkin, Texas where Diboll High School football coach Jimmy Davis attends a Bible study every Thursday morning at Starbuck’s Coffee Shop here. He told me, because of his Christianity, he will never “cuss out or … Continue reading →
Just finished reading this cover article. Although it was written some three years ago, or so, there were a number of salient points that are still quite applicable today… For instance: “All-electric vehicles are simpler than gas-powered ones. They have … Continue reading →
RR spike maul I interviewed local historian Keith Sommer for a newspaper article recently. He has quite a collection of antique artifacts, including a good number of old RR artifacts — including a RR spike maul, pictured here. And he … Continue reading →
For the last month, a couple friends and I have been working on our campaign vehicle. It’s a 1984 converted Midas Motor Home. The roof had a leak, the carburetor had to be rebuilt, and there needed to be some … Continue reading →
Catching up… We came out of the Florida Panhandle, heading into Alabama in the early evening one day last week. And we found ourselves caught in the cross hairs of a huge thunder storm system. We turned … Continue reading →
The Japanese scramble to avert a complete meltdown at a nuclear facility today. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant melted down, spewing massive amounts of radiation throughout Russia and Europe. The Deep Water Horizon catastrophe spewed massive amounts of … Continue reading →