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On the Road Home: You Know You’re Getting Old When . . .
I can hardly wait till March 10th when Daylight Savings Time returns. I live for evenings when there’s still enough daylight that I don’t feel like bedtime comes right after I arrive home… more →
Triptotheouthouse
On the Road Home: You Know You're Getting Old When . . .
wrote 2 months ago: I can hardly wait till March 10th when Daylight Savings Time returns. I live for evenings when ther … more →
On the Road Home: Try Something French, and It's Neither Fry Nor Poodle
wrote 1 year ago: Some days I’d like to write a post, but the evening is just too short. I feel a bit guilty of … more →
Happy Holidays to All from Trip to the Outhouse
wrote 1 year ago: All of the Christmas cactuses are blooming at the same time this year, giving me time to enjoy them … more →
On the Road Home: Those Sirius XM Channels Can Lead to a Place . . . Well, a Place where the Music Is "Musique"
wrote 1 year ago: How the 9 button got pre-set to 155 I don’t know, but luckily this mystery put me onto a kind … more →
When Your Car Is Totaled and You Have To Replace It, Beware of "Apple Pie" Marketing Along the Way
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wrote 2 years ago: It has been just a bit over a month that I got involved in what most would have seen as a “fen … more →
On the Road Home: When Getting Off the Crowded Freeway Is Not the Best Bet
wrote 2 years ago: Considering the nearly 50 miles I drive in heavy traffic every day, perhaps it was bound to happen. … more →
On the Road Home: Shut Up and Hang Up, or Why Don't You Just Stop for a Psychic Reading?
wrote 2 years ago: They should pass a law that mini-vans always stay to the right. The people (I’ll avoid stereo … more →
View from the Suburbs: Bug Love (not the VW kind) and Taxing Taxes
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wrote 3 years ago: This Monday has been a long one (and by the time I finish this, it’s sure to be Tuesday), but … more →
View from Suburbia: Hang Up and Drive Courteously
wrote 3 years ago: Despite what I wrote about not getting the February Blues this year, the colder, gray days haven … more →
Greece in a $100 VW Bug
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wrote 3 years ago: A gypsy encampment in northern Greece (taken about 1974) One of the things that I have spent some ev … more →
View from Suburbia: Thrustmaster, the Yellow Gate, and Garage Culture
wrote 3 years ago: One of the signs along my way home, photoshopped, the way my imagination does it every day. Fifteen … more →
Houston Poised To Start Work on Five New Metrorail Lines; Officials Say These Transportation Projects Will Bring 60,000 New Jobs to the Bayou City; Completion Set for Sometime in 2012
wrote 4 years ago: Today contracts were let for four new lines by the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County. … more →
Holiday Gifts For You (From Triptotheouthouse)--Wishing You All A . . .
wrote 4 years ago: The thermometer says 48 degrees this morning, probably not very crisp for some of you in the more no … more →
VW Bug--College Life: The Selective Service and Student Teaching (Chapter Five in the VW Bug Chronicles)
wrote 4 years ago: Sometime during my junior year in college (69-70), many of us guys sat nervously around the radio, w … more →
Who Are These Republicans Nowadays Anyway?
wrote 4 years ago: After all the viciousness that the McCain and Palin have been putting forth in their campaign speech … more →
VW Bug and College Life on the Great Plains (Chapter 4)
wrote 4 years ago: I went to college in the middle of the Vietnam War years. Though I’d had my VW painted purple … more →
VW Bug and Saturday Night in a Small Town (Chapter 3)
wrote 4 years ago: When I was working at the depots at Sylvan Grove, Luray, and Natoma, I drove back and forth every da … more →
VW Bug and a Summer Job, Chapter Two
wrote 4 years ago: In “VW Bug and a Summer Job”, I was telling about how I got my first car and about worki … more →
VW Bug and a Summer Railroad Job, Chapter One
wrote 4 years ago: Not Mine But Similar I think most guys will remember each and every car that they have owned. I know … more →
