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Savor the mountaintop
October 27, 2014January 27, 2021

Savor the mountaintop

By GrandpaLyle 0 Comment on 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

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October 24, 2014July 25, 2022

The Oak Ridge Boys

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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

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October 22, 2014July 25, 2022

Is stubbornness a bad thing?

By GrandpaLyle 0 Comment on Is stubbornness a bad thing?

Originally posted to ontheroadagainagain.com on October 22, 2014 One of the features I dreamed of in GrandpaLyle’s Ark was truly modern technology. All of my iGadgets talking to each other and displaying on a flat-screen TV with surround sound and a power sub-woofer. Cool, eh? All it would take was a trip to the toy

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October 22, 2014December 13, 2020

Situational awareness

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Originally posted to ontheroadagainagain.com on October 22, 2014 A dear friend and operator of a top quality flight school posed this question in a lesson. Although he was teaching aspiring pilots, the lesson applies to a host of life situations: “You are driving down a four-lane highway. There are high curbs on either side of

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The gauntlet is down.
October 20, 2014July 25, 2022

The gauntlet is down.

By GrandpaLyle 0 Comment on The gauntlet is down.

Originally posted to ontheroadagainagain.com on October 20, 2014 Last November, shortly after the Intruder was downgraded to the In-Turd-er, a crazy idea came to me. Rather than simply tooling around the USA in a broken down motorhome . . . or a more modern replacement . . . why not fix this one up. Make

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