Tag Archives: road travel

Vacation Over

Posted on May 14, 2019 by R. F.

Summer is over now. Marge and the girls have come back from their long visit in the Tampa, Florida area. We did go to the Jersey shore for a week and discovered a very small, very loud Florida frog in the trailer. Marge located him and took him outside and he is now on his own. Some car problems with our 1970 Ford station wagon, house and home projects; the miscellany of life in suburbia. I am looking forward to some business trips and school for the girls will soon begin. Continue reading →

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Winter Wonders 1976

Posted on August 31, 2017 by R. F.

41 years ago, Thanksgiving and Christmas, trips, work, hobbies, cars and familys memories Continue reading →

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Summer Solstice Soliloquies

Posted on March 2, 2017 by R. F.

family life in 1976, photos, Dad’s death,Lake Placid, summer vacations, ham radio, ages and stages Continue reading →

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May the 4th (of July 75) be with you!

Posted on December 31, 2016 by R. F.

4th of July, vacation, trailer, new freezer, Ocean City, NJ, Birthday, home & trailer improvements Continue reading →

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Feb. 1975, Flu, Florida, Family, Guitar, Electronics, Furniture

Posted on September 30, 2016 by R. F.

Mid winter in PA, Flu, Florida, Trailer travel, Guitar, Electronics,Furniture Continue reading →

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April 1974

Posted on April 11, 2016 by R. F.

March surely did go out like a lion this year.  We had about an inch of snow on March 31, but it didn’t last long.  The snow flakes were big and wet, came down hard for a few hours and … Continue reading →

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Marching Along – 1974

Posted on March 23, 2016 by R. F.

Spring is springing, a young man’s thoughts turn to Love, and a middle-aged man thinks about his trailer. March 74 certainly came in very lamb-like.  I was sick again in February with the flu, more severe in February than January. … Continue reading →

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Another New Year – 1974

Posted on March 17, 2016 by R. F.

Here we are again, now in 1974.  I didn’t get around to writing until the end of the month for some unknown reason now, probably the Christmas rush, celebrations, etc.  One of our Christmas day rituals was turning the house … Continue reading →

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Summer Time – 1973

Posted on February 18, 2016 by R. F.

The Date: August 15, 1973.  The Place: Coopersburg, PA.  August here is usually hot and muggy, this day being no exception.  Not like NY where we could get by with large window fans and we are so thankful this house … Continue reading →

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Great Expectations – Our First Trailer Trip

Posted on January 29, 2016 by R. F.

I am shameless in appropriating titles, though we did in fact have great expectations for our first trailer vacation.  The time was April 1973 just preceding Easter of that year. We made a trial trip to Lancaster PA to get an actual … Continue reading →

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On The Road…In PA

Posted on January 26, 2016 by R. F.

Apologies to Jack Kerouac but I couldn’t resist. Marge and I have discussed buying a travel trailer.  Really, it was my idea but of course it was a joint decision to make.  I have no idea why, it just seemed … Continue reading →

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R. F. & M. F. – End of Chapter

Posted on December 20, 2015 by R. F.

“MY GRANDFATHER’S CLOCK” Words and Lyrics Henry Clay Work “My grandfather’s clock was too large for the shelf, So it stood ninety years on the floor; It was taller by half than the old man himself, Though it weighed not … Continue reading →

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The Meaning of a Classic

Posted on July 12, 2015 by R. F.

Early Fall had arrived to Syracuse in September 1957.  Roy and I had settled in to our room at the Infirmary, and were walking  on a Friday evening. We had left the infirmary on  Waverly, walked east and turned south on … Continue reading →

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Beginning of the end

Posted on July 4, 2014 by R. F.

  So, what next to share? No war stories to tell, and really that is just as well as there was no war. I believe I have already mentioned that there were a few deaths of pilots on training missions. … Continue reading →

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Autumn 1959

Posted on April 26, 2014 by R. F.

“I found this tonight and somehow I wanted you to know what it says.  It is very lovely. I love you very much. EBB says it much better than I can, although she spoke to a different “Robert” 1959 begins … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving 1958

Posted on April 2, 2014 by R. F.

It was a dark and stormy night.  All right, not stormy, but certainly dark. Nothing too dramatic this term. Marge and I had become quite attached to each other and we often went for little drives just to be together. … Continue reading →

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Lake Placid NY – 1958

Posted on March 30, 2014 by R. F.

Welcome to Lake Placid, NY home of two winter Olympics. Lake Placid is a really nice place in summer. Pleasant days and the evenings are usually cool enough to wear a light jacket. Winter’s a different story with below zero days even … Continue reading →

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Sentimental Journey

Posted on March 15, 2014 by R. F.

There used to be a ballad with the name of Sentimental Journey. As in any journey it has to begin somewhere and, naturally, this begins on the campus of Syracuse University.  I enclose a plan map of S.U. that I … Continue reading →

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