As we seem to vacation well together, Best Fest Buddy Tom and I are thinking of hosting tours. We’ll call our excursions “Get Off the Bus, Take a Picture” in honor of the catch phrase of our bus driver/guide through the Ring of Kerry, who looked a bit like Phil Collins. To get in the… Continue Reading
It was Best Fest Buddy Tom’s birthday recently, so over the weekend we headed to the St. Louis area, where his brother lives, to celebrate. Tom’s waist size remains less than his age, and there is a currently airing police drama set in Honolulu. Those are the only clues I’ll give you about how old… Continue Reading
For me and a good many of my friends, every Tuesday is Fat. And so are the other days of the week. I haven’t been to any of the bacchanalian events leading up to Ash Wednesday that go on in New Orleans from 12th Night until the start of Lent. So, being on a budget… Continue Reading
Best fest buddy Tom and I couldn’t have picked a better weekend for a road trip: the weather was early fall, teasing everybody in the Midwest of what summer was supposed to be; Enterprise had a $26-a-day deal, and we wound up with an SUV; and the airports were screwed up because an unbalanced person… Continue Reading