This past weekend Kemba jumped off the roof. Yes, my writing students at Blackham Middle School in Bridgeport, this is hyperbole. But not by much. Wait, though. Let’s back up a little. From the time Kemba emigrated from Canada, as a little ball of fluff, he never seemed to be where we were sure we’d […]
LA/XC-4 DAY THIRTY-ONE: POSTING FROM WESTPORT, CT Last-day mileage from Port Clinton, OH to Westport, Ct: 571 Total LA/XC-4 mileage: 8,710 Road Music: Sirius cycle; Spurs-Clippers; Gretchen Wilson (Here For the Party); Little Big Town (Tornado, Pain Killer); Mets-Yanks Weather leaving Port Clinton Sunday morning: 55 gorgeous, cloudless degrees Weather arriving Westport Sunday night / […]
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LA/XC-4 DAYS TWENTY-NINE AND THIRTY: POSTING FROM PORT CLINTON, OHIO Two-day mileage from Kenosha, WI to Port Clinton, OH: 481 Total LA/XC-4 mileage: 8,139 Road Music: “Sweet Home Alabama” endlessly, to see if it still deserves #1 on Hank Herman’s 300 Favorite Songs of All Time, the revised edition, coming out this summer (I think […]
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LA/XC-4 DAYS TWENTY-TWO THROUGH TWENTY-EIGHT: POSTING FROM KENOSHA, WI Seven-day mileage from Mount Shasta, CA to Kenosha, WI: 2,761 Total LA/XC-4 mileage: 7,659 Road Music: Sirius cycle; NBA “red zone” (e.g., listening to the ends of all the playoff games); LA/XC-4 playlist (The Band Perry, Lee Brice, Tom Petty, et al); Hank’s 300 Favorite Songs […]
LA/XC-4 DAYS EIGHTEEN, NINETEEN, TWENTY, AND TWENTY-ONE: POSTING FROM MOUNT SHASTA, CA Westbound mileage to L.A.: 3,602 Mileage while in L.A. area: 524 Three-day mileage from Santa Monica to Mount Shasta: 772 Total LA/XC-4 mileage: 4,898 Road Music: Tuesday — Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again” (get it?), as I start the northward trek up […]
LA/XC-4 DAYS FOURTEEN, FIFTEEN, SIXTEEN, AND SEVENTEEN: POSTING FROM SANTA MONICA Yesterday Carol, Kemba, and I drove up the PCH to visit our good friends, former-Westporters Susan and Rick. (Carol flew into L.A. Thursday for a long-weekend visit; as I’m sure you know by now, this whole cross-country road trip thing is not her style.) […]
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LA/XC-4 DAYS TEN, ELEVEN, TWELVE AND THIRTEEN: POSTING FROM SANTA MONICA Two-day mileage (Tempe, AZ to Los Angeles): 447 Total LA/XC-4 mileage: 3,602 Road Music: Sunday: Sirius Radio — “The Hot 45″ on The Highway with Storme Warren; Green Day’s Dookie, for old time’s sake; Monday: Mets vs. Washington — opening day! (They won! Looking for […]
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LA/XC-4 DAY NINE: POSTING FROM TEMPE, ARIZONA Today’s mileage: 387 Total LA/XC-4 mileage: 3,155 Road Music: Sirius cycle; Green Day’s American Idiot; Duke vs. Michigan State Weather leaving Las Cruces, NM Saturday morning: 68 degrees, partly sunny, breezy, pleasant Weather arriving Tempe, AZ last night: 88 degrees, but cooling down nicely Yesterday’s state tally: 2 […]
LA/XC-4 DAY EIGHT: POSTING FROM LAS CRUCES, NM Today’s mileage: 421 Total LA/XC-4 mileage: 2,765 Road Music: Sirius cycle; “Music of Nashville” playlist (5 CDs from the Nashville TV show) Weather leaving Sonora, TX Thursday night: 77 degrees, mixed sun and clouds Weather arriving Las Cruces, NM last night: exactly the same! Yesterday’s state tally: […]
LA/XC-4 DAYS FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN: POSTING FROM SONORA, TX Three-day mileage: 1,079 Total LA/XC-4 mileage: 2,344 Road Music: Sirius cycle; all my Carrie Underwood, in honor of passing through Checotah; all my Trish Murphy, in honor of my visit to Austin Weather leaving Memphis, TN: 70 degrees, gusty Weather arriving Sonora, TX: 88 degrees; […]
