Per Mom, the following updates are mandatorily added BEFORE you read the following.  Be advised, "It was the 80s, not, repeat not, the 70s!" ======================================== Each year around my Dad's birthday, we do a family overnight in Bar Harbor to...

Sitting in the restaurant on the beach at sunset drinking my second beer, we'd been there a grand total of 2 hours, the vibe was settling into my bones nicely.  The tide was out so the coral was exposed and...

I've never been so excited.... so giddy... to hang out at a truck stop.  To the uninitiated (read: me), I thought they were "gross".  No more thought beyond "gross", just "gross".  All that nonsense stops today.  These places are fascinating....