A warning to family and friends, this post is a deep dive into packing for minimalist traveling. . You might find it rather dry. If you are still interested and have not read Finding the right bag for Travel, you might want to click the link and read that one first. The hyperlinks for products or…
Author: margrad80
I am a retired Merchant Mariner, a retired Marine Surveyor, and a currently active novelist. I am starting this blog to follow my life in retirement, as I follow a more inconvenient life.
Я вернулся на Facebook!
Yes, I am back on FaceBook. As a matter of fact I have been back on FaceBook since April 10, 2018. I wanted to wait awhile to see if I was going to stay before writing a post about it. After saving my Facebook history, killing my old profile, and starting a new one, as…
An Ode to My Mother, who made a reader out of me.
I was one of those kids, who didn’t do very well in school. I was very slow to learn to read. I learned the mechanics of reading not too much behind my classmates, but that slight slowness labeled me as backward. If someone stood over me and said, “Read.” I could call out the words,…
Novels by S. L. Pirtle
The Accidental Texan was my first novel to be published. It wasn’t the first novel I had ever written, but it has many of the mistakes that a first time novelist makes. It is too long for most readers, even though I cut out two thirds of the original novel to be published separately. Originally…
Books, Books, and More Books
One about traveling the way I do is that I stay in one place for a month or several months. Unlike quick travel, where you find yourself trying to maximize your time wherever you are, slow travel is more like living in one place. There is plenty of time for everything. The only thing I…
Does it really count as one bag?
In my previous post, Finding the right bag for Travel, I wrote about my search for the perfect travel bag. I decided on the MEI Voyageur Backpack. All advice I garnered from other blogs assured me that I needed a lightweight day pack, in addition to my backpack. I looked at all the ones recommended…
Petaluma You Ask? Part Four
Petaluma You Ask? Part One Petaluma You Ask? Part Two Petaluma You Ask? Part Three Finally, my last day in Petaluma came. I was glad I didn’t head out early. Sunday is the day my most favorite podcast is recorded; This Week in Tech, the show the podcasting network was named for. Of course I…
Petaluma You Ask? Part Three
Petaluma You Ask? Part One Petaluma You Ask? Part Two By the time that Friday rolled around, I was tired. I was beginning to question whether I was making a fool of myself by spending so much time hanging around the studio. I was even thinking about not returning for the other shows I had…
Petaluma you ask? Part Two
If you haven’t read Part One of this series of posts, click here to read it first. August 22, 2018 I had considered going to see Windows Weekly being recorded, but I thought that I was probably overstaying my welcome as it was. On Wednesday I spent the morning sorting through my packing some more…
Petaluma, you ask? Part One
In an earlier post Two months, it was only supposed to be two months, I explained how a became a Leo Leporte fan. I realise that I became so distracted by my fellow passengers, on the flight to California, that I never quite finished the story. After Tech TV became G4, and G4 drift off into…