In Search of Sunshine

We headed out a back door route on a lazy, meandering four-day southbound road trip through six states to Sanibel Island, Florida, where we’ve rented a condo for three weeks. It is the middle of winter, so the landscape was leafless and gray, but we were lucky to have clear, but chilly, weather. The Missouri…

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A Perfect Storm

Traveling with friends can be the perfect storm either way, a disaster or a triumph. With Tom, Charmaine, Jack, Linda, Dean, and I, it has been the best of times. We’ve shared day trips ashore, had parties, dinners, celebrations, toasts, and even formed our own “Flatlanders” trivia team to test our collective knowledge of useless…

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