After arriving home yesterday morning at 7:00 am from a road trip to my previous state of residence, I reflect on the week-long excursion. From Muncie to the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex is roughly one thousand miles, about 16 hours of drive time using the optimum route. Having made the trip many times over the last 4 decades, the distance may not have changed, but my physical stamina and mental acuity sure have!
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Chicago, America’s Biggest Small Town
Being from Muncie, once labeled “Little Chicago” for the mobsters that would hang out there in the 1920s and 1830s due to it’s proximity to the “City of Big Shoulders” yet also because of its distance from it, I would visit the “Windy City” from time to time during the warmer months. It wasn’t until 1988, long after moving to Texas, that I experienced the winter months there.
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Houston, Texas, is the 4th largest city in the United States and THE largest city in the south. My first encounter was in 1973 when Mom, Dad and I visited there as Dad interviewed for a Medical position. We spent several days at a hotel near the Medical Center, foreshadowing events fifteen years later.
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Phil, John and Adam at Kings Island 5-12-2013
Last Sunday, Adam, Phil, John and I, embarked upon a journey to seek the fountain of our youths. Our destination – the fountains of King’s Island Amusement Park in Mason, Ohio.
Continue readingEvidence emerges proving that I once had a Life!
Dad found this old postcard while perusing his extensive library. It dates from November of 1984 when Nikki and I traveled to Cancun, inspired by the movie “Against All Odds”.
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This song was played frequently on the Miami Smooth Jazz radio station that I often listened to on assignment there in 1994. When I was flying home to Dallas one weekend toward the end of the project, the station’s DJ was sitting next to me on the plane with her husband en-route to Las Vegas for a few days of vacation. It was Friday the 13th and sure enough we all had a scare on approach to DFW. It turns out that we flew right through seven twisters (unknown to us at the time) that did a great deal of damage to the suburb of Lancaster. The pilot told me after landing that it was the worst turmoil he’d ever experienced.
The next week back in Miami, I flipped on the radio to hear the DJ describing her enjoyable and relaxing getaway but that she was glad to be back at work.
Steve D.
South by Southwest (Airlines that is)
During the mid to late 1980s, I traveled a great deal to client sites for extended engagements and my number one choice of aerial transportation was Southwest Airlines.
Continue readingIn A Gadda Da Vida
Going through a bitter divorce has its advantages. Granted, those advantages are few and far between but are there if you know how to look for them.
Continue readingHow We Were One with the West
During the mid-1980s, there was a surge of condominium time-share promotional activity in the DFW area. My wife, Nichole, and I decided to check-out a couple of these promos mainly because of the prizes and freebies they were inclined to hand out to visitors.
Continue readingQuetzalcōatl’s Revenge – Cancun, Nov. 1984
I had not even finished my first year at my first professional position out of College when I was being recruited by a large financial organization downtown. At the interview, I thanked them for their interest but informed them that I wished to remain loyal to my current employer for at least the remainder of my first year for the following reasons;
- as a courtesy,
- to get my vacation which accrued at the rate of 1 week per year.