Bill Tait’s Blog

On our way back to D.C. from Richmond we were stopped by the Virginia State Police. We were travelling on I-95 I-95 was a known drug mule route traveling straight up the east coast. We had packed a picnic lunch and were going to stop somewhere nice for a break. Even though it only takes ….  Read More

My girlfriend Mary and I were travelling down to Columbus Georgia one fine fall day. It was a long trip from D.C. all the way to southwestern Georgia and we weren’t in any big hurry, it being a fine fall day with the sun shining and a soft gentle breeze blowing, so we wanted to ….  Read More

Many years ago, think wayback, Joyce and I traveled to Chicago for Mark and Barbs wedding. After driving all day and arriving around 3:30, checking in to the hotel, a quick trip to the liquor store, and cracking my first beer the phone rings. It’s my brother Bob, you know like Bob Dylan, and he ….  Read More

It starts in Jamaca and ends in Siberia, well almost. We met two young German Marines while on vacation in Montego Bay Jamaca. Thay were part of our small group that were the first ten people to show up at the beach bar at our resort. We all started to hangout together and did alot ….  Read More

Being new in town, and looking for a job, I was hitting every bar and restaurant om M street in Georgetown Wash D.C. A welcoming sign reading draft beer .95 caught my eye and I went in for two reasons, one to apply for a job and the other for a cold beer. Upon entering ….  Read More

Back when I was a wee little lad of eighteen I started bartending at The Saloon in Georgetown Washington D.C.. After working in the kitchen for two years when I turned 18 Commy, my boss, made me a bartended. I started in the daytime working lunches were it was slower paced and slowly worked my ….  Read More

We were down in South Carolina playing one of the many courses on a fine afternoon. It was a skins game between Phil and I and Jack and Paul with all skins carrying over, and Phil and I were down by three. With an eight skin carry over on the fifteenth hole I knew I ….  Read More

Way back in my youth, somewhere between the invention of the wheel and the invention of Jimmy Carter, I dated a young park ranger named Cheryl something or other. She was outdoorsy so I was outdoorsy. We went camping a few times up on the Shanandoah mountains in Virginia. West Virginia, and Maryland in the ….  Read More

There was a resale shop in Georgetown back in the day. It is still there i would surmise. I purchased many wonderful things there over the years, the lovely penguins that sit on my windowsill, some of my old english castles china that we use on special occasions, and then there was the ugly sweater. ….  Read More

After eight days in Paris we were headed to the wine country. Making our way to the money exchange booths in the Gare de lyon while my girlfriend Julie went to the bar as I waited to change money. In France it cost ten francs to change money and the dollar was trading at 8.3 ….  Read More