sleepy
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As you can see, we enjoy our travels... we entertain ourselves when the weather is bad... when we are in areas of little interest... on indian reservations, state capitals, Walmarts, boat ramps, on beaches... or along the side of a road through the mountains...
Every book has a location... it is fun to walk the streets, seeing what the writer saw as he or she wrote the book... Janet and I can recall places we have been with the smallest details... places that we visited 50 years ago... travel and books will do that for you.
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JumboJet
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Have you ever considered a Kindle book reader (or Kindle app on your computer or smart phone)?
With an Amazon Prime account, there are thousands of free and low cost books, etc.
Of course, with the hard copies, you can share those as you finish them up which is an admirable thing to do.
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JumboJet wrote:Have you ever considered a Kindle book reader (or Kindle app on your computer or smart phone)?
With an Amazon Prime account, there are thousands of free and low cost books, etc.
Of course, with the hard copies, you can share those as you finish them up which is an admirable thing to do.
I've thought about those too, but unlike a book, where yesterdays BBQ finger print stains and the day before's mayo stains get left behind as you read - I'd be left with a greasy reminder of my habit of reading while I eat in foreign restaurants ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/doh.gif "doh")
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sleepy
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We both like the feel of paper... of turning pages...
We buy books when they are new... often on the day they are published so they aren't free. We usually pay from $17 to $20 for most of the books... and as many people as we want can read them.
Sure, I can get Steinbacks "Grapes of Wrath" free but if it was any good I read it 50 years ago. (and did)... I was excited about ebooks until I took a good look...
Growing up, we were economically challenged (like that?) but everyone in town gave my mother their used books... we read them all. Eventully those books were the seed of a public library.
Janet and I gave the local library our books... but they just saved them for next years book sale. That's a year when others could be reading them... we see too it that they are used as much as possible.
We have had a lot of TC friends trade books with us when we are on the road... TC folks are good about sharing... ad many are readers.
And the covers are pretty...
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sleepy
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We do have paperbacks too... especially when we find a new author that we like and go back to find their earlier books.
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I read a lot of technical material until I was about 65 years old... don't read too much of it now... NO, I don't know it all... I just don't have a need to be up-to-date anymore.
It gives me more time for fiction and historical biographies.
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Note: 50 years ago today
My wife Janet was in a comma... she had Toximia following the birth of our daughter Marcia on the 20th... The first thing she remembers is waking up as the funeral was being shown on her Kanawha Valley hospital room TV. We were already overwhelmed...
I was returning to the hospital from home... I was on Kanawha Blvd in Charleston WV when it came over the radio... traffic stopped... people got our of their cars and stood in the road crying, I was stopped in front od Hodo's resturant. It was the worse thing in my 23 years... like most, we had supported President Kennedy all the way.
We'll travel again tomorrow
Chet
Nov 22, 2013
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sleepy wrote:Note: 50 years ago today Chet Nov 22, 2013
It is just without explanation the hatred that brought about such a world changing incident.
It seems with all the things taking place today, that as an educated, refined, and polite society, we have not made near enough progress, or have not passed down the values as we would hope.
One other thought, "The Great Society" is a bust!
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sleepy
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The rains quit... the sky was still heavy!
... as we pulled out of the parking lot we saw a Quaker Oil place... and turned in that direction to investigate... I always liked Quaker State... Pennsylvania Crude oil doesn't have sulfur... No carbon deposits build up on the rings on your pistons... no sulfuric acid forms in your oil as it ages. (Gulf coast oil has sulfur)
Turns out that it wasn't a lube place at all... it was a resturant.
The sign really made me wonder.... gangs? or what? I hadn't seen anyone that was objectionable.
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way from home while we hid from the storms and watched TV football...
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