A Busy Fall and Winter 2026-27 Planned
It’s Been 50 Years?!? October looks like the beginning of getting back on the road for the fall of 2026 and winter of 2027. It begins the first weekend of October when I’m scheduled to return home for my 50th high school class reunion. I really haven’t kept in contact with any of my classmates, so I’m not looking forward to the coming event with high enthusiasm. Still, one only has one chance to celebrate one’s 50th, so I’m going there. Time (and gas prices) permitting, I’m seriously thinking about visiting the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. The museum had not opened when I visited the state in 2016, so this would be a great opportunity at a time of year when the weather would hopefully be warm and not roasting hot. Talking Paul Robeson at Princeton U. then Acadia NP I don’t have a lot…
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By the time I reached the Portland, Oregon, Amtrak station on Tuesday afternoon, I had completed the drive from Crater Lake, boxed and mailed the items I had purchased during the trip that I didn’t want to carry with me on the train, cleaned up eight days of mostly living in my rental car and turned it into the Enterprise dealer in Portland, then gotten a free ride to the train station from Enterprise. (BTW, my compliments to Enterprise for their service throughout the rental process. I’ve been using them for years and will continue to do so.) When we pulled into the station, I had to take a couple of pictures of the tasteful, old-fashioned building. I was lucky on the trip back that the staff at Portland went out of their way to get me seated in the lower car level, which is for those who need accessible…