Lamp Post Inn Ann Arbor

... for gifts and souvenirs on the return trip...<br><br>There's a old travel rule of thumb..."Never travel with more than you can run with for a quarter mile."<br><br>Gotta' work on that.<br><br>Thanks to 'Beca, Mark and Layla for their marvelous hospitality! It won't be three years again before we visit. Save the milkweed! Save the Monarchs!<br><br>Adeau America!<br>

... She was doing some sort of non-profit work!" "Me too!" I said. Gave her ten dollar tip. If you visit the Tuba Museum, make sure you don't walk past the big steamroller flattened tuba, set in concrete outside. It's just a whole lot of FLAT! http://www.travelerstuba.com/ We just completed the well-attended NASCO Institute at U of M-Ann Arbor. I had a very good crowd for my "How To Promote the Helloutta' Your Co-op for ...

I am still at home. Only one more week. Being away from my home for three weeks requires a lot of preparation. I even know the movie that are going to have on the Flight. I am tired already!! Since I will be on a plane for almost 24 hours, I am collecting all the necessary stuff needed to be comfortable. <br>

Phew... Going through US Customs was a bit trying... No searching but a lot of questions meant - I supposed - to catch us with something bad... Who knows. We did not loose any meal. We're in the middle of a fairground, with a weak WiFi but OK. The only analog TV channels are from Detroit but the Detroit area offers 22 digital channels, many <br><br>Longer day than expected but we grinded the flying condo to a halt. No problem other than a sticking lock on the propane door.

After saying our goodbyes to everyone at Cedarlane RV Park this morning, we're on the road to Michigan, in the home! Gray skies and cool winds can't dampen our spirits - we are SO looking forward to this next week's travels - when we leave Michigan, we'll head south on I-75 towards Florida, with a two ...

... farm vehicles (very high, I think they spread fertilizer), mostly John Deere tractors, some irrigation (actually saw some spouting water - all this trip we had only seen idle irrigation equipment) - little towns, some prosperous, many less so, back to the Amish buggies in northern Indiana around the pretty town of Middlebury, and on up to Michigan!<br><br>We camped last night at a fun but crowded campground on Gun Lake (where Al Capone had a summer ...

... by the end of December. Saturday was the really big day - we were throwing a party for my Mom's 90th birthday, and like our visit, this, too was a surprise for her, despite our having told her all about it many times over! What a great day it turned out to be - almost 40 old friends and family gathered to share memories and photographs, enjoy birthday cake, and join in singing Happy Birthday to Mom. Great fun! Pictures to follow!

With the motorhome safely tucked in next to Rose's sister Jill and Rick's house, we're having a great time, sharing cooking and meals, playing word games, and exploring Ann Arbor and environs. Last night, Jill and Rick took us to downtown Detroit for a brief tour, and then to Jazzfest - a great evening! We started out by the new Tiger Stadium (ComericA Park), which is absolutely fabulous! Wish the Tigers had been in town ...

... the hopeless war in Vietnam, the illegal invasion of Cambodia, riots on college campuses, secret police, break-ins, enemies lists, IRS audits, the White House leak-plugging "plumbers unit," and on and on. But Nixon's paranoia, crimes, abuses of power, trampling on civil liberties and the Constitution are tame, almost benign, by the standards of the Bushevik regime. "These guys make Nixon look like a Cub Scout," says John Sinclair, a poet, musician ...

... work like the original events (we drew 12,000 people in 1972 and 15,000 in 1973). Like so many things in this life, though, if you live long enough a lotta things end up coming back around, and when I was in Michigan in August I got a call one day from Peter Andrews, who said he'd just been appointed to bring the Festival back to life and he wanted to re-form our original working partnership and do it the way we did it then-with the important exception that there ...