It certainly doesn’t sound like I am missing an Indian summer? Indeed I believe the island has been under severe weather warning for the latter part of last week. (View Post)

I admit that before I visited the town museum here yesterday, I didn't know that the Japanese had ever invaded Alaska. But they did, occupying three of the Alaskan islands, assumed to be for use… (View Post)

Oktoberfest has arrived in Colorado and after a morning hiking, I am lunching in the square of a mock Alpine village listening to a pretty terrible mock oompah band. This place has an interesting bac… (View Post)

Me and the dog went to see where San Pellegrino came from last year, and while the town itself is quite pleasant with the river tumbling through, the humongous factory just downstream, with a ginormo… (View Post)

One positive from the fallout of the recent incident is the arrest of the father who gave his teenage son the gun to play about with. If it gets other US parents thinking a bit more responsibly about… (View Post)