The War of the Roads: Act One
Monday, May 13, 2013 at 9:06AM Sherwood Park, Alberta
We woke up nose-to-nose with another trucker. In Kansas.
This menage a trucker is a daily dirty dance....
Monday, May 13, 2013 at 9:06AM Sherwood Park, Alberta
We woke up nose-to-nose with another trucker. In Kansas.
This menage a trucker is a daily dirty dance....
Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 1:34PM Cochrane, Alberta
I regarded the Willie Nelson-like trucker in the Jubitz laundry room in Portland, Oregon, salt-and-pepper beard, faded jeans and plaid shirt, as a typical driver. Until he thrust his white socks under my nose.
Friday, April 5, 2013 at 3:15PM Garden Grove, California
When it comes to owning a small business, there is often no right answer.
This photo of Mt. Shasta in California was taken last year. We want to see the view again in the Westcoast mirror, behind us.We are “sittin’ and spendin’,” not earning, in Southern California, a condition small business owners try to avoid. Some would say that it’s kind of our own fault....
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 1:33PM Louisville, Kentucky
For an entire year we tried to get to the bottom of a coolant leak.
Finally the bottom found us...
S**T Never Ends,
Truck Stuff
Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 10:56PM Hong Kong, China
It took less than 30 minutes, at the dinner hour, to zip through Chek Lap Kok Airport immigration, grab our bags and board the A21 double decker bus (US$4 for the 40 minute trip) to Tsim Sha Tsui. Deplaning 525 passengers from our Emirates Airlines Airbus 380 took longer.
Many things have changed in the almost 25 years since my last visit to Hong Kong. And a few did not, like the Star Ferry. Still a suprisingly peaceful way to cross the harbour, probably because most people are riding the subway.
Hong Kong is built for speed. This city-country that never sleeps is still the King of Capitalism. Scrambling out of the bus before....
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