Showing posts with label Eastern USA Road Trip 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eastern USA Road Trip 2016. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

A compendium of links for the two Eastern USA Road Trip 2016 series.

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NA Confidential has evolved in several unexpected directions over the years, but it still functions as my own damn personal blog -- so t...
Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Eastern USA Road Trip 2016, Day 9: Antietam and a detour through Civil War medicine.

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It should be obvious that the American Civil War is far too vast a topic to distill into a handful of bromides, and what's more, batt...
Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Eastern USA Road Trip 2016, Day 8: Civil War history in Frederick, Maryland and environs.

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It's an old album filled with even older songs, and it came back to me while we were in Frederick: Civil War songs: "I’m a Good Ol...
Monday, September 05, 2016

Eastern USA Road Trip 2016, Day 7: Northampton MA and Labor Day in a Blue State.

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Don't ask me why my subconscious elected to disgorge this number on Labor Day.  It took a while to sink in, and when it did, Northa...
Sunday, September 04, 2016

Eastern USA Road Trip 2016, Day 6: A trip to Gator's in Rhode Island.

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The musical duo at Fort Hill Brewery performed this classic tune just as I was tearing into a Rauchbier. Life on a Sunday gets no better. ...
Saturday, September 03, 2016

Eastern USA Road Trip 2016, Day 5: Ruby welcomes the Confidentials to Massachusetts.

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The whole point of the eastern road trip was for my wife Diana to visit Ruby, the five-month-old daughter of her niece Jen. Ben is Jen'...
Friday, September 02, 2016

Eastern USA Road Trip 2016, Day 4: Lunch in New Hampshire, and a last look at Vermont.

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For musical accompaniment to driving hours and hours eastward in 2016, there was no rock and roll in the car. Instead, I brought along a c...
Thursday, September 01, 2016

Eastern USA Road Trip 2016, Day 3: A varied melange of Brattleboro.

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Bob Dylan's classic song from 1975 has absolutely nothing to do with Brattleboro, Vermont on September 1, 2016, except when I heard i...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Eastern USA Road Trip 2016, Day 2: Across Ohio and New York to Brattleboro, Vermont.

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There were times during the drive across the Green Mountains to Brattleboro from the New York state line when I wasn't sure if our 4...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Eastern USA Road Trip 2016, Day 1: MLB, Minnesota Twins at Cleveland Indians.

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"Bungle in the Jungle"? We heard it while enjoying pre-game drinks, prompting a rumination on "classic rock" and the ...