Our final full day in the Seattle area began when my photographer’s alarm rang at 6:00am on Monday July 14, 2025. I was anxious because the three of us were scheduled to head to the “Great White North” for a…
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332: OVER THE RAINBOW AND INTO THE EMERALD CITY
Like clockwork, Tom’s alarm rang at 6:00am on Sunday July 13, 2025 – and I was still standing on the dining room table in our VRBO rental in Bellevue, Washington. I was excited to hit the road, albeit not a…
327: YOU’RE KILLIN’ ME SMALLS IN SALT LAKE CITY
When Tom’s alarm rang at 6:00am, I was as excited as a youngster on his or her Little League team’s Opening Day. And for good reason – there wasn’t a cloud in the sky on Tuesday July 8, 2025 and…
295: MY MORNING WITH TWO DECENT DOCENTS AT THE AUGUSTA HOMES OF WILSON AND WALTON
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…
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…