Youngstown, Ohio. Sad town, decent Holiday Inn Express. Matt was very kind at the front desk, and the complete uncertainty of throwing myself off the road and into a box for the night went splendidly. Youngstown is one of several sad towns I flew through between the Little City by the Bay and Your Nation’s […]

I was tempted to think the letters “MC” could go in the log-book this morning, but that is absurd. This is not Mission Complete, but it is something. I couldn’t even really put the “MC” in the box until I actually get the Bluesmobile back into the lot at Big Pink, but close enough for […]

Well, I guess when you get to the laundry things are properly positioned on Abraham Maslow’s Heirarchy of Needs. It has been chilly up here, and I did not sweat much over the last ten days, but it still was time to cycle the clothes. I could have just replaced them, like I did for […]

Spike and I did some good work on Raven’s last full day with his wife of 63 years. “Friendship Center first on the way?” I asked. “That works. Can you run back here after that and drop me? I will need a car, since I have a conference call with the Judge back in Arizona […]

Annook caught me behind the wheel of the Bluesmobile yesterday. I Heard the ring tone from the front pocket of my Levis, and I fished it out punched “accept” and held it up to my ear. “So, you installed the ring enhancer on the phone.” It was a declarative sentence, not a question, but I […]

The fog is in thick this morning, forty degrees as the morning tries to come on. Standing on the deck in back of the house, the sky is connected to the gray water in wisps of cloud, the highlands across the bay concealed. It was a good day, yesterday after an unpromising start. Raven was […]

For there’s a change in the weather There’s a change in the sea So, from now on, There’ll be a change in me. My walk will be diff’rent My talk and my name Nothin’ about me Is goin’ to be the same, I’m goin’ to change my way of livin’ And if that ain’t enough, […]

It is not as savage a day out on the Bay as it was yesterday, but the gun-metal gray waves are still thrusting east toward the pale brown sand of the beach at the State Park and the low gray cotton-wool clouds are nestling in the chill. I got up fairly early after some vivid […]

I had a report to knock out for the office, and I need to get started on chores at the house. So I was running a little late in getting to Potemkin Village for the lunch shift. I went straight to the Challenged Dining Room, where I am becoming a regular feature. Raven and Bib […]

Well, no long journey is complete until you have the hull lashed firmly to the dock in home-port, and this voyage has a ways to go. But Big Mama has joined Raven in a special place now. She is still with us, still engaged, but living in an alternate reality. I finally got it yesterday. […]