The collected writings of Bob Giddings

Second Wind

July, '03

I made a couple of short excursions during the winter, but this is the first big trip since I retired in November of '02.

The house was empty and for sale, but buyers were scarce. After sitting in the driveway for 6 months, I was getting bored. Hey, I was a gradual student once. Boredom I can take. But then the temperatures around Georgetown, Texas, started climbing. And climbing. When it reached 100 degrees, I took a long sweaty look at the wheels on this trailer. Still round. Still rolled. So what was I doing here?

I cut out for cooler climes.

I was the Tourist from Hell, or at least the Outskirts. Like in the Austin Lounge Lizards song: "I'm Number 667, the Neighbor of the Beast". I was taking a bead on salvation in the form of 70 degrees. I wasn't of a mind to compromise on cool. But other than that I was pretty open to Divine Guidance or the Advice of Friends, whichever came first.

Sometimes it's a little hard to tell the difference. These are some of my adventures...

17 Jul 03	Trying to get out of Texas
18 Jul 03	Spanish Peaks, Colorado
22 Jul 03	Lake City
23 Jul 03	At Home On The Lake
24 Jul 03	Cliff Time
26 Jul 03	A Peculiar Day
28 Jul 03	Weather, 'Tis Nobler In The Mind
28 Jul 03	Soaps at the Spa
30 Jul 03	Ooops! No Top-o-Mountain Majesties for me!
30 Jul 03	The Best Medicine
31 Jul 03	Bored with the back, already
3 Aug 03	The Spas that Refresh Us
4 Aug 03	Down to the Flats and Back
5 Aug 03	The Mountain Diet
8 Aug 03	No Flies on Me
13 Aug 03	Picture That
13 Aug 03	"That's What They Say, Sonny"
13 Aug 03	Fires Still Make Me Jumpy
15 Aug 03	BC IS on Fire
16 Aug 03	"It's a Problem, Eh?"
20 Aug 03	Onward Through the Fog
21 Aug 03	Their Country, Tis of Them
29 Aug 03	A Hike and A Ride
29 Aug 03	Learning to be Patient
3 Sep 03	Unlabor Day
4 Sep 03	The Sunshine Coast
8 Sep 03	Ferry Freak
8 Sep 03	Adventures at Sea
11 Sep 03	Headed South Again
17 Sep 03	Islands
17 Sep 03	Winding on Down
18 Sep 03	Rainy Days
20 Sep 03	Victoria Rules
24 Sep 03	The Snopes Family Reunion
1 Oct 03	Pinwiko 6
2 Oct 03	Boondocker's Attitude Adjustment
13 Oct 03	Quartering the Kitsap
14 Oct 03	Feeling Sequimish
15 Oct 03	Rain
18 Oct 03	Kindness Is Katching
18 Oct 03	Natural Selections
19 Oct 03	Few And Far Between
20 Oct 03	Round and Round and Round
21 Oct 03	Lake Bob
23 Oct 03	Dollars and Sense in Sisters
26 Oct 03	Going With The Flow
26 Oct 03	The Promised Land
30 Oct 03	Following the River
5 Nov 03	Mendocino and the Mountain Spotted Beaver
14 Nov 03	Guess Who and the Ghost Road
15 Nov 03	Mirkwood
16 Nov 03	Cities
26 Nov 03	The Shadow of the Valley
3 Dec 03	Traveler's Luck
8 Dec 03	Snow Joke

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