Falling Out of The Van

Skippy, you will be happy to know, this is not another story about you. In addition to the Opel, another legendary vehicle I owned was The Van. It was a copper 1989 Toyota Mini Van. I had bought it on a credit card from a dealership in Cincinnati during a bad...

Dogparks and Brewpubs

It was a hard thing to do, but what was previously our travel blog website, dogparksandbrewpubs.com has been decommissioned. We now have visitors routed to the One Shoe Diaires where our blog now resides. But to keep the distinction between the old and new posts we...

Volume 3 is in the works

I have finally gotten inspired to start work on Volume 3. It is hard because this was going to be the Volume that followed the adventures of raising of Noah :( But I am sure he would not want me to stop writing. So while I dedicated volume 2, this book will be done in...

New Orleans, LA

Sharon was able to get a flight home earlier than we thought which was great. I think the cold and lack of sleep was getting to her. Plus I cannot take care of myself and needed her home as well. But to do that we had to fly her into new orleans airport in order to do...