It was the moment of truth when Tom’s alarm rang at 6:00am on Thursday July 24, 2025 in our hotel room in Dixon, Illinois. My photographer had tweaked his knee the previous evening at Lowell Park, but he figured the…
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330: TOM SAVED BUCKS IN BELLEVUE, BUT ENDED UP SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE
Friday July 11, 2025 began just like every other day on the trip when Tom’s phone alarm started to beep at six o’clock in our hotel room in Ontario, Oregon. Since the moment we arrived in the Beaver State, I…
279: AM I FLAKEY? I WAS AFTER MY VISIT TO KELLOGG’S SANITARIUM IN BATTLE CREEK
When my photographer’s alarm rang at 7:30am on Saturday February 3, 2024, I watched Tom roll out of bed in our hotel room in De Pere, Wisconsin; that’s the moment he realized it wasn’t Groundhog Day again. Another fact was…
277: WE SEARCHED FOR PHIL CONNORS AND NED RYERSON AND FOUND ALICE COOPER INSTEAD
The first day of February had arrived and I was anxious to hit the road for my first trip of 2024. Not only did my photographer’s agenda have us scheduled to relive the movie ‘Groundhog Day’ in Woodstock, Illinois, but…
255: HOMEWARD BOUND – ANOTHER EPIC JOURNEY COMES TO AN END
It was roughly 10:20am on Wednesday June 14, 2023 when my photographer, Bob Moldenhauer, and I left Kent State and the images of May 4th behind us. I was antsy during the entire 38-mile journey north as the next stop…
181: SCHLEMIEL, SCHLIMAZEL, HASENPFEFFER INCORPORATED!
Legendary rock star Alice Cooper once said of Milwaukee: “It’s pronounced “mill-e-wah-que” which is Algonquin for ‘the good land.’” For the three of us, there wasn’t a better day to head for “The Good Land” than on Friday February 4,…