GrandpaLyle’s Ark

  • The Oak Ridge Boys

    Originally posted to ontheroadagainagain.com on October 24, 2014 Traveling alone as I do sometimes has advantages. Like when you want a last minute ticket to a show there’s often one available in the center of the fourth row. Woohoo!  In only a couple hours the Oak Ridge Boys made me feel like we were friends having a ...
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  • Savor the mountaintop

    Savor the mountaintop
    Originally posted to ontheroadagainagain.com on October 27, 2014 More than a decade ago, I had the good fortune to hike up a mountain. A mountaintop experience, you could say! The uphill trek was arduous. I didn’t even know whether or not I’d be able to make it. Going up took four times as long as the ...
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  • What’s so hard to take?

    Originally posted to ontheroadagainagain on January 29, 2015 On Sunday, January 4, 2015, I launched a three month adventure through the Southwest. While unfortunates in the rest of the country were suffering wintry weather, I would enjoy cactus and sunshine. CHA Hall of FameJohn and Edna Clapper Although most of the trip would be at my usual stressful ...
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  • What does an aging hippie do?

    What does an aging hippie do?
    As I fantasized about transforming the In-turd-er into GrandpaLyle’s Ark I dreamed of the life I missed when I was in my hurry-up years. You know: hurry-up and drive, hurry up and finish school, hurry-up and get a job, hurry-up and get married, hurry-up and buy a house, hurry-up and have kids, hurry-up and get ...
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  • On the road again . . . at 75

    Originally posted to ontheroadagainagain.com on May 5, 2016 After 2½ weeks of hopscotching around the country celebrating my 75th, it felt strange to be back home (in the Ark). My road trip started two months ago from home in Arkansas but was interrupted by flights to both coasts with a couple stops in the middle. This feeling ...
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