While in Helsinki Finland we found out about the shopping boat trip to Leningrad, Russia. A novel trip where you get on a boat in Helsinki and go to Russia for the day. No visa, no papers, just go shopping. We thought we could shoot across and see Leningrad with all of its beautiful architecture, ….  Read More

Up in New York with my buddy Phil. Staying with his mother in White Plains. All of a twenty-five-minute train ride to the city. It’s super bowl weekend and Phil says, let’s head to Tribeca. There’s a bar there that has the best super bowl party known to man. I’m game I say, get it ….  Read More

OK, I quit my job and played golf for a week or two. I woke up, got a cup of coffee, and was trying to figure out what to do that day when my lovely wife said to me If you don’t find a job today don’t bother coming home. I thought I’d look for ….  Read More

One beautiful summer afternoon I went to the local deli on Potomac street near Wisconsin Ave. They made great sandwiches and sold beer to go. I had done this same lunch routine many many times before. Get sandwich and two Becks beers head to the wall of the parking garage and enjoy lunch. Half a ….  Read More

One Christmas many long years ago I was trying to date a young lady. It was Christmas time and cheer was everywhere. I called said young lady early an Saturday morning to see if she would go out wiyh me for a day of fun. She said she had volunteered to wrap Christmas gifts at ….  Read More

On a beautiful summer afternoon my girlfriend and I were returning from a Civil War dig near Richmond Virginia. Not having to be anywhere in a hurry we had packed a picnic lunch and headed up I-95 in a leisurely manner. After about 35 minutes into our trip we were looking for a scenic roadside ….  Read More

You’ve met Kenny at Old Macs afew months ago. I tried to avoid Kenny as much as possible. Now and then we would run into each other a one of the local bars. It always ended badly. Kenny started off sober and then after four/six drinks he would start to get that wacko look in ….  Read More

Another trip to the Dig Apple found Phil and I at Mcsorelys. 2:30 pm and we are two of five early patrons. Round for two here phil yelled out and then whump, four beers just appeared. Lost in long conversation about all of this and that it was somehow 4:15 and the bar wae once ….  Read More

Kenny Galvin of the Boston Galvins was a bootblack in Washington D.C. Not your average everyday bootblack, he owned nine shoeshine stalls in all of the best malls in and around the city. Kenny worked the stall in the Georgetown Park across the street from where I worked I worked at the Saloon asmall local ….  Read More

McSorley’s is a beer bar in Manhattan New York. I don’t know when it was opened, but I do know it was a long time ago. My first trip there was in 1978 while visiting a friend. Phil and I got there aroud 2:30 pm. It was still slow as the after-work crowd was still ….  Read More