Well in so many words I thought I would explain somewhat of a breakthrough I recently came to.   It’s basically coming up with a term for a lot of the stuff I do (and have been doing for several years) as a hobby, called “dirtbag adventuring.“  I’ve been struggling for several years to build and [...]

Look for more updates about this as I get some time. My hobby, ‘dirtbag adventuring’ www.hazardassembly.com. Also RIP Michael Jackson, devastating because I liked his music so much. It did shape my life and the music here, sort of as the ‘first taste.’ I played that album from when I could work the record player [...]

This post is sort of like preaching to the quoir.   If you haven’t read the book then these quotes might bounce right off you.  That is -  unless you have a real adventure about yourself; enjoy seeing things not in all of their beauty – as beautiful.  Wanterlust, quirkyness, a love of America…   If you have this [...]

I came across a quote in an article in last month’s Vanity Fair, about the old blind piano player Geroge Shearing from Kerouac’s On The Road that inspired me to post it: Dean and I went to see Shearing at Birdland in the midst of the long, mad weekend… Shearing began to play his chords; [...]

We were talking about New Mexico tonight.  The dust and funkiness, there is just something about New Mexico.  So for some reason, for my first post on my blog, I thought I’d post a little story about a car on the side of the road in New Mexico that became an awesome adventure… This was [...]