For my photographer, Saturday August 4, 2018 in Tustin, California was a day that he had been looking forward to for a long time. His good friend, Tom “Mr. Plumber” Currier, was hosting a Road Hog NASCAR party at his…
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84: COME ON, LET’S GO TO RITCHIE’S PACOIMA
My photographer and his wife woke to the alarm clock at 7:00am on Friday August 3, 2018 and as they got themselves ready for the day, I kept thinking to myself: “Come on, let’s go”. Tom had planned a very…
83: WIN ONE ON AIR FORCE ONE FOR THE GIPPER
When the alarm went off at 6:30am on Thursday August 2, 2018 in our Sands by the Sea motel room, I was anxious to hit the road. After all, it was ‘Ronald Reagan Day’ for my photographer and me. Not…
82: GOIN’ GAGA OVER HEARST CASTLE
As the alarm went off at 6:00am on August 1, 2018, my photographer and his wife were eager to hit the road. Oh, it wasn’t just any road, mind you; it was the Pacific Coast Highway and that Wednesday’s drive…
81: HOG’S BREATH AND ICE CREAM IN CLINT’S CARMEL
It was the last day of July 2018 and my photographer and his wife got rolling around 7:00am on that Tuesday morning. The two of them had the car packed and we were on the road out of Hollister, California.…
80: JUST A WALK IN THE FOG
When my photographer and his wife crawled out of bed on the morning of Sunday July 29, 2018, the sun was shining and the weather looked perfect, at least from my view through the apartment’s window. Tom and Vicki had…
79: THE BIRDS OF BODEGA BAY
Saturday July 28, 2018 was a day that was scheduled to be filled with a couple of Presidential sites, TV sitcom sites, movie film locations, and some beautiful scenery that my photographer and his wife had wanted to see since…
78: WHERE WERE YOU IN ’62?
Our alarm rang at 6:30am on Friday July 27, 2018 in the place we had rented from Charles Ballinger near Mill Valley, California. For the first time since our arrival in the Golden State, we didn’t plan on going into…
76: ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ WITH “THE ROCK”!
The alarm clock went off on Thursday July 26, 2018 at 5:30am; which was a half-hour earlier than normal. My photographer and his wife had heard that parking was expensive and hard to find in downtown San Francisco, which prompted…
75: BOBBLE HEAD, YES. DEAD HEAD, NO!
I was still riding high and feeling good since I saw President Donald Trump in Washington, Michigan in April. Three months had already passed and the day had arrived for our trip to the West Coast. They said “Californy is…