The Adventures of Travel Penguin

The car is from yesterday, a long time ago yesterday.  I wonder if he has had it that long; or wanted it then and can now afford it; if he f...

What do you have today, that you wish you had a kid? Did you drink alcohol, before you were "of age?"   Did you have a secret hidi...

  I built a house for a guy once (I have about a 1,000 of these stories) who was retired from a long career selling the forms that ran in th...

This sign, chalk board, was in a small restaurant in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.  The place specialized in burgers, exotic fries, and drinks.  It w...

A long, long time ago, early in the morning, after a night long thunderstorm, I was born on my Grandfather's Birthday, this day.  I have...

  This is my oldest brother, in my grandfather's boat. A classic wood boat.  The boat was gone before I came along, there were later sma...

  When we are traveling together, I frequently take a long walk while Jay showers and dresses. It gives me 30-45 minutes to wander and think...

I am well on my way to being a long haired freaky person.  I have not had hair this long since the late 1970's early 1980's, it may ...

 Kind of a test of how old are you, do you remember when, this weeks Sunday five.  Do you remember the first time you paid more than $1 per ...

  For the first 50 years of my life I avoided breakfast, it started as a child, I blame my mother, but then I hold her responsible for a lot...

  My grandmother was advised by her doctor in the 1930's to take up smoking, on the theory that drawing smoke in would exercise her lung...

I worked with a guy decades ago, who met Richard Nixon, long after he had left office.  Nixon was out for a walk in a park watching the fish...

  I have no idea who the child in the swing is, my father took this one before I was born.  I love the shade, the color, the tone, the momen...

We returned from a little road trip, about 1,000 miles four nights in three different hotels.  Home, to Lexington, Kentucky (my Bourbon coll...

When I was growing up in Michigan, the American Poet Edgar A Guest did a recorded segment on one one of the Detroit radio stations.  This wa...

We all have influences on our lives, some positive, some not, some funny, some sad, hence this weeks Sunday five.  Describe a person who has...

  Using the power of many, the kindness of strangers to get things done.  Here the National Park Service is enlisting the help of visitors t...

  For a couple of years now, in my annual goals was figure out what I want to do when I grow up, actually growing up is optional, when I gro...

  Makes me wonder in a landscape of green, and brown, why is the cardinal red? Cardinals have a feisty reputation, they are said to be very ...

I remember the Apollo launches, the first landing on the moon, Neil Armstrong's words as he first stepped onto the moon.  I was across t...