Bill Tait’s Blog

With my girlfriend snug in the back seat sleeping off last nights reveling we headed east out of Washington State. She woke up near Sponane and we finally finding route 10.After we passed over some high hills called mountains and were headed for flatter terrain. The weather in the mountains was bad, snowing, sleeting, and ….  Read More

Kenny Galvin was one of the nicest guys you’d ever want to meet. Give you the shirt off his back if you needed it. But, when he drank the Irish came out and not in a good way. After 6-8-10-12 drinks Kenny would get this crazy look in his eyes. That look meant that Kenny ….  Read More

I met Kenny in Old Mac on the corners of 34th & M Street N.W.. Old Macs was the locals local hangout and had been in Georgetown since time outta mind. I was sitting quietly with these two young ladies when my friend Jody came in. Jody stood about 6’8′ weighing in around two hundred ….  Read More

My great friend Arthur and I were looking for a new place to drink after golf. Arthur and his lovely wife Helen had moved out to the burbs and we still lived in the city. Finding a drinking hole spaced out equally between heaven and hell has always been a challenge, and our quest began. ….  Read More

Somehow I managed to get Phil and I an all expense paid trip around the Army Navy Country Club’s 18 holes in Arlington Va. just outside of Washington D.C. This is the same golf course that all of the Presidents play. Not an easy feat, but with the help of my Medal Of Honor winning ….  Read More

Some of the things that Phil and I did aren’t always as memorable as things that happened with out Ole Phil. This is one of those times. Super Bowl 1980 finds us in New York City where Phil knows about this great bar in Manhattan(don’t remember the name) where they have the best super bowl ….  Read More

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