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

This story starts so innocently on a city bus travelling down Wisconsin Ave in Washington D.C. I was returning to Georgetown coming from my travel agent Maggie Vater’s office with a brand new Let’s Go Europe and a map of Europe. Looking at the sectio of map with England and Ireland, Scotland was there also,, ….  Read More

My friend Liz was studiing to be a hairdresser in Washington D.C. She needed someone to practice on and I was elected. I would go to her apartment where she would make me dinner and while we were waiting she would cut my hair. Great plan and she did a great job with dinner and ….  Read More

In search of the ilusives true Aran Island sweater Joyce and I caught the ferry to Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands. It was a chilly brisk October day in northern Ireland, but the weather never held us back from anything Joyce wanted to do. The ferry ride was about 40 minutes and as ….  Read More

After a glorious week on the northeast agean island of Samos we made our way to the port of Samos. Samos City on Sundays was mostly closed, but we managed to find the one Taverna that was open. Sharing a light lunch I felt the need for a little pick-me-up and reached into my backpack ….  Read More

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