"Inspector Smoky Bates, private eye for the public schools." - Norman Lamb, "It's Your Move"
For the first full day of the Sons of the Desert convention, Thursday, July 10, we basically spent the entire day in Amsterdam again. Not that touring the city wasn’t enjoyable, but it certainly didn’t feel much like a real convention, given that we were away from the hotel for almost the entire day. That […]
If I were Edwin Starr, I might answer that with “absolutely nothin’” - but since Bob and I spent the better part of Monday, July 28, 2008 in this town, it must have been good for somethin’. The day started off with a nice breakfast in our Comfort Inn motel. They had a nice array […]
President James A. Garfield is a name virtually lost among the United States Presidents. Having served just six months and fifteen days of office - the second shortest term of any President - he was shot on July 2, 1881 by a disgruntled Federal office seeker named Charles Guiteau. For the last two and a half […]
Although I was starting to get used to the time zone difference (6 hours), it was still difficult dragging my butt out of bed. We had another 8am bus to catch on the morning of Tuesday, July 8, 2008. Whereas we had traveled to the northern part of Holland the day before, this bus would […]
Bob and I woke up bright and early and rarin’ to go on the morning of Sunday, July 27, 2008 at the Travelodge in Fremont, Ohio. Unfortunately, we had discovered the night before that the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center didn’t actually open until noon that day. So after tending to my scorched ear hairs following […]