Bill Tait’s Blog

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

Before i met my wife Joyce I dated a young girl named Julie. Julie was very attractive being 5foot 2 inches tall weighing in at 125 pounds with strawberry blond hair. She was well endowed and won the best body on the beach two years running. Getting ready for her threepeat we went shopping for ….  Read More

My girlfriend of four years was breaking up with me and talking about moving to New Orleans. Her brother lived there and she had a leg up with his help. I had started my wacko plan to travel around Australia for a year or so. My travel agent Maggie was looking into an open-ended flight ….  Read More

My good friend Thomas was a happy go lucky kinda guy. He was smarter than most of my friends carrying two master’s degrees. Both in engineering, one in electrical and the other in physical. He had a great job working for the government in Crystal City, Virginia just across the river from D.C. He was ….  Read More

Oh, way back in my youth I dated this nice gal named Jenny. She was from Annapolis Maryland and her parents still live there on the Chesapeake Bay. It was an old farmhouse circa 1840-1850, pre-civil war but totally renovated. Every spring her family all got together at her parents’ house for a Memorial Day ….  Read More

After finally getting past the Ohio PO PO I made it down to Atlanta. Midnight, dark, and raining in downtown Atlanta. A small on ramp in a terrible neigorhood on I-75 south. Not a lot of prospects for a ride but my journey to Florida continues. Near one am a car swerved to a stop ….  Read More