Press ESC key to close search

Vic Socotra

Author: Vic Socotra

  1. Home
  2. Vic Socotra
January 6, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life and Island Times: Day 1

Editor’s Note: The Four Corners Adventure begins. Stay with this series. Marlow makes “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Riding” look like an amateur effort! This is a loving portrait of a man and a Nation in transition. -Vic Life and Island Times: Day 1 Coastal Empire After a nice empty-road ride along US 1, […]

January 5, 2017 Vic Socotra

Bilateral Cooperation

Important senior officials From Washington D.C., Fly thousands of miles, To drink green tea, Review important files, And make proposals using Their negotiating wiles, With Japanese senior officials Who say “No” with smiles… copyright J.P.N. | Poetry, Etc., From Kanagawa, South of Tokyo, Japan www.carllafong.blogspot.jp

January 5, 2017 Vic Socotra

DUMB LUCK

Editor’s Note: If you feel that fever-chill-naseau-ache and disorientation thing coming on, be thankful that it appears to run its course in as little as five days. At least that is my experience. I hope yours go swiftly. I had a happy chance to be able to sit upright again and took the opportunity to […]

January 4, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life and Island Times: Genesis

Author’s note: Writers normally have a moral in mind when penning a story. Not so for most who are simply living life during their Great In-Betweens. During your author’s midlife wanderings on two wheels of American back road wilderness, there was a moral but only in retrospect. These multi week rides with other riders tested […]

January 3, 2017 Vic Socotra

The Hatch Way

Editor’s Note: Do not get this brand of the flu that I am enjoying no end. I even got my shot on time back in October, and it didn’t matter. This strain is virulent, disgusting and really cuts into your social life. – Vic The Hatch Way (Then-LT Bill Hatch. Photo Hatch family). It was […]

January 2, 2017 Vic Socotra

THE PROFESSIONALS

Editor’s Note: If I failed to personally express my thoughts for the New Year, let me do so now. Please have a safe and prosperous New Year in 2017! I am happy to be done with 2016- it had all sorts of good and bad news, including deaths of friends and the miracle of birth. […]

January 2, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life and Island Times: Riders and the Road

Editor’s note: This is about back country roads and their motorcycle riders. There is a difference between America’s western and eastern country roads. The latter are seacows compared to the tireless workhorse country roads of the west. When a rider hooks himself to a wonderful eastern road, challenge and thrill are certain but not the […]

December 31, 2016 Vic Socotra

You’re In the Navy Now

It had been a long and confusing week, with five separate proposals to the Government in various states of disarray at the office. I was sick of writing creative fiction about capabilities and desparate for a win that would keep Corporate off our backs for a while. I was a thirsty camper when I glanced […]

December 30, 2016 Vic Socotra

Jack Pot

I hit the jackpot yesterday at the historic Washington Navy Yard. I got access to a copy of the oral history that Mac did with Art Baker twenty-six years ago. It was the very first one that the Office of Naval Intelligence had conducted, and in six interviews, Art got an excellent blow-by-blow on how […]

December 29, 2016 Vic Socotra

The Revolt of the Admirals

(Convair B-36 Peacemaker, 1949. My brother and I stopped at Wright-Patterson AFB to see the one in the Air Force Museum. It is one of the most extraordinary aviation artifacts I have ever seen. Official Air Force picture.) “The Bomb got us all home,” said Mac. “It saved us the hundreds of thousands of casualties, […]