Bill Tait’s Blog

Way back in the days of yore my friends Gary and Donna lived on the side of a mountain in Virginia. Somewhere in the Blue ridge mountains they eked out an existence caretaking a hunting cabin/lodge for a rich family who owned 1/2 of the mountain. Their cabin had all of the amenities, water electricity, ….  Read More

After 9:00 and four miles to the docks, what to do. Another shot of that gold flaked vodka and a little brainstorming. It was decided that we would stay at a friends house and be taken to the return boat in the morning. Half an hour later a man showed up at the restaurant. Can’t ….  Read More

Taking the shopping boat from Helsinki to St Petersburg sounded like such a great idea. A day trip to Russia with no passport, visa, or itinerary needed, just show up at six am and board the boat. All we had to do was be back at the dock at 8:00pm to catch the boat back, ….  Read More

Back when I was 15 I took a trip down to Florida to see a friend in Vero Beach. For me a trip meant hitchhiking and hitchhiking meant backpacking. So brite and early I packed off down I-75 south. Boring boring boring, I made it just south of Toledo. Standing on an entrance ramp with ….  Read More

Thursday dawned clear enough for 18 holes of golf, which means 16 holes of drinking with Ben. Afterwards we decided to go out to the pub with the girls. Only this time it wasn’t the local pub, it was Johnny Fox’s on the glen, located somewhere south of Dublin in what they so quaintly call ….  Read More

The door opens and a warm glow reaches us immediately. You must be Bill and Joyce and you must be Ben and Kathleen. After 20-30 minutes of getting acquainted, Ben finally says well are we going to the pub or not? So, off to the same pub we use the broken phone at. Settled in ….  Read More

Finally in Dublin and we get directions to Rathfarnum , a suburb. Of course we go right by our turn and end up at a roundabout. After a few trips around, look kids Parliament, we stop at the local pub to call Ben and Kathleen. Two pints of Guiness, a glass of wine, and six ….  Read More

Starting out from dingle we were making our way to Galway. It would have been a two or three hour drive, but you need a car for that and we were hitchhiking We walked out of town and up the mountain in the early morning fog. Half way up a lorry stopped for us and ….  Read More

A cold blustery morning found Joyce and I wending south on the a-1 from Belfast to Dublin. About twenty miles into our trip a huge rainstorm blew in from the west. My navigator missed our split and we somehow managed to get on the A-3 headed west. Being in no particular hurry we just kept ….  Read More

Back in my frivolous days of youth I had a friend named phil. Now everyone should have a friend like Phil. He always managed to get me in some kind of trouble or another. Phil #1 It was a Tuesday morning in mid June, the phone rang and to my surprise it was Phil. “I’m ….  Read More