Mark? Twain!
Are they on a three-hour tour? Will they get shipwrecked in Illinois? Am I feeling all Mark Twain-y and wanting to pilot a riverboat up to Hannibal? Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Around the World
Bad Timing
The intersection I took thirty minutes to get through? A half-hour later, two cars. Oy. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Downtown St. Louis
Looking to the southwest. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Looking South
View out the south window. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Helloooo St. Louis!
Hellllooooo St. Louis!! Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Whoa.
Feel guilty about treating myself, but Hyatt gave me an eighth floor corner room with windows on two sides. Maybe I'll just stay here. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016 [Best part: Our credit card travel miles made it a free stay. Woot.]
Post Game Frustrations
So close, yet so far. Hope the Cards lost 59-0. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Post Game Blues
Got caught in after-game traffic at Busch Stadium downtown;30 minutes to go three blocks. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Dilly Bar!
Found a DQ in Bowling Green! Now on to St. Louis, a little over an hour away! Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Lost in America
I seem to be lost and headed for New Orleans AND Juarez. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Seeing Things
Frank didn't tell me he's running for governor of Missouri. I might be like Bill Clinton, First Gentleman of Missouri! (I think this road trip is making me a little loopy.) Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Pokemon Going
I found four Pokemons. What'll I get for 'em? They're not Pokemons? No? Shoot. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Choo Choo
Finally, some excitement! A train! (US 36 in northern Missouri is great and immensely less stressful thab the hellish I70 bryween KC and Stl… at the price of great boredom.) Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Hello Joe!
Hello Joe! Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Tall Corn
The corn around here is higher than this elephant's eye. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Incredible Day
So this happened: An amazing, wonderful, unique, bittersweet, laughter through tears, hugs and finely developed senses… Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, August 6, 2016
Good Morning, Good Life!
Good morning Nebraska! Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Reminder of Home
Mound City, MO. First person I see, the hotel desk clerk, used to live in … Nashville, TN. Maybe I'm homesick. Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, August 5, 2016
Falls City, 50 Years On
Two awesome pieces in the Lincoln, NE, Journal Star by Peter Salter explain why I'm in this neck of the woods. Great… Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, August 5, 2016
Hello KC!
Hello Kansas City! Stopped for lunch … 66 miles to go today. I-70 between St. Louis and Kansas City: Pure Hell. Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, August 5, 2016
Rainy Start
Rainy start to Day Two, but it's clearing up. On to Mound City. The big day is tomorrow in Falls City! Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, August 5, 2016
Nashville, IL
Nashville, Illinois. Nashville to Nashville is 264 miles and three hours, twenty-three minutes. It's hot stramy in both Nashvilles. On to St. Louis, 60 miles away! Posted by Steve Pollock on Thursday, August 4, 2016
Illinois!
Illinois! Posted by Steve Pollock on Thursday, August 4, 2016
Kentucky!
Kentucky! Posted by Steve Pollock on Thursday, August 4, 2016
Off I Go
Off I go! Road trip to Falls City, NE, to speak in honor of victims of Braniff flight 250, crashed 50 years ago this Saturday. This one is a road trip; I'm driving. Posted by Steve Pollock on Thursday, August 4, 2016
Crescent Moon Chasing Sun
Crescent moon (upper left) chasing sun to the horizon over a hot Hermitage. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, July 10, 2016
Ole Yeller
His Imperial Highness, #IAmTheRoux, and His Imperial Clown Prince, #GooseIsLoose, wish it known that They do not exert… Posted by Steve Pollock on Thursday, June 30, 2016
Sunset Over Hermitage
Sunset over Hermitage. Posted by Steve Pollock on Tuesday, June 21, 2016
The Killing of Jo Cox
“She would have wanted two things above all else to happen now, one that our precious children are bathed in love and… Posted by Steve Pollock on Thursday, June 16, 2016
The Cumberland Rolls
The Cumberland flows on between Gallatin and Lebanon on a scorching hot afternoon. Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, June 13, 2016
Bang Bang, Crash Crash.
Not surprised. Grieved. Shell-shocked. But not surprised. Worst death toll yet in Orlando, five in a domestic in hometown Roswell, another one averted in West Hollywood where friends are marching for our right to live and love today. It’s an endless list … they’re just like car wrecks now … 32,675 dead on the roadways…
Cookeville?
Is it Cookeville? … YES! … but why?! Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Baxter?
Is it Baxter? Noooooo … Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Smithville?
Is it Smithville? McMinnville throughthat very dirty windshield? Nooooooo … Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Carthage?
Is it Carthage? Nooooooooo … Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Lebanon?
Is it Lebanon? Nooooooo … Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Gallatin?
Is it Gallatin? Nooooooo … Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Surprise Road Trip
Us? On a road trip? On a Saturday morning?! Now what's up with this? <Shhhhhh! It's a surprise! His Majesty The Roux monitors my Instagram stream while we're gone.> Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 26, 2016
Rainy Hermitage
It's a gloomy, rainy Saturday afternoon in Hermitage; but more trees are blooming, so the long, dark winter is almost done. Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, March 12, 2016
ENMMC, Early 60s
What ENMMC in Roswell looked like when I made my debut in the world. So spiffy and clean and it had shiny floors and a… Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, February 29, 2016
The Things Ya See …
Our neighbors must include an IT nerd and some Different Strokes fans. Heh.(Betcha can't guess which WiFi networks are ours! (Oh the things insomnia makes you find funny at 6 a.m. on a Saturday morning.)) Posted by Steve Pollock on Saturday, February 20, 2016
Hello Nashville!
Hello Nashville! It's so very good to see you again! After a DQ bacon cheeseburger, it was lights out in my own bed by 7:30. Amazing what being free from a monster adrenal can do for you! Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, February 8, 2016
Party Like It's 1999
Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, February 8, 2016
We Are Minnesota.
Coats? Coats?! 20 degrees outside and snowing, eh? We don't need no stinkin' coats. We. Are. MINNESOTA!!(Two movie references there, sorry.) Posted by Steve Pollock on Thursday, February 4, 2016
Closed For a Little Snow?!
Closed. Closed? Closed?!!!!!!! <Shakes ice-cream-starved fist at snowy sky> NOW you've gone too far, snowy Minnesota… Posted by Steve Pollock on Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Good Morning Rochester!
Good morning, Rochester! Blizzard coming, ready? Posted by Steve Pollock on Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Our Last Retro Post (For Now): 10 Years Ago Today, 30-Aug
For the last few weeks, we’ve been observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ve reposted articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they were, bittersweet. We’ll be back to our regular irregular posting after this last…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 29-Aug, Part 3
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 29-Aug, Part 2
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…
Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 29-Aug, Part 1
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. [It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back…