Tuesday April 30, 2024 began when Tom’s alarm rang at 6:00am in our room at the Baymont Hotel in Augusta, Georgia. The first thing my photographer did when he rose out of bed was to remove my bandages to see…
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293: STANDING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF FOUR AMERICAN PRESIDENTS IN OUR NATION’S OLDEST CITY
I won’t hesitate to admit I had a very restless and uncomfortable night at the Holiday Inn Express in St. Augustine, Florida, even though I ain’t ‘fraid of no ghosts. The spooky image my photographer’s wife had captured in front…
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…
245: A SLICE OF BASEBALL HEAVEN WITH THE GREAT BAMBINO, THE IRON HORSE, AND FATTY McGEE McGAW.
My companions were able to sleep in on Saturday June 10, 2023 when my photographer’s alarm rang at 6:00am in our room at the Amsterdam Hotel in Stamford, Connecticut. That’s right, Tom and Bob got two more hours of sleep…
228: TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADERS ON ‘HAIL TO THE CHIEF’
For the past several months, since I returned home from my last trip shortly after Thanksgiving 2022, I’ve been busy with my photographer in the GBS Media Studio in Port Huron, Michigan as we recorded episodes of our show ‘Hail…
226: ALIENS AMONG US AT HARDING’S TOMB
Sunday November 27, 2022 began when Tom’s alarm rang at 7 o’clock in the morning in our Springfield, Ohio hotel room. For me, it was a bittersweet moment as I figured this was likely my final trip of the year.…
224: A DAY FILLED WITH TAFT, AND GRANT, AND WOLVERINES, OH MY!
My photographer’s alarm went off at 5:45am on Saturday November 26, 2022. Tom and I were anxious to hit the road as he had planned on the two of us visiting several William Howard Taft sites in Cincinnati before we…
148: HARDING 2020 WAS WORTH THE WAIT
The final day of our two-week trip got under way in Marion, Ohio when the alarm sounded and woke my companions at 6:00am on Thursday May 27, 2021. Tom hustled to get himself ready because he wanted to visit Harding’s…
147: “FLOWERS ARE BETTER THAN BULLETS”
Tom’s alarm rang at 6:00am on May 26, 2021 and the first thing I heard was a threat of storms could impact our day. While a gas shortage threatened the earlier portion of our trip, weather had never been an…
142: IN THE FATUOUS FOOTSTEPS OF FORTY-FIVE
For some strange reason, my photographer didn’t set his alarm clock for the morning of Friday May 21, 2021. And because of that, Tom got an extra nine minutes of sleep before we headed out on our final day in…