Author Archives: Sparky
TN7 Hop 3: Tifton GA to Cartersville GA
220 miles almost exclusively via I-75 and I-475 around Macon. Cumulative tow miles: 615. Truck miles: 228. Cumulative truck miles: 691. The extra truck miles were to refuel. Another easy hop in terms of navigation – get on I-75, drive 220 miles (with a few miles on I-475), get off, go a couple of miles … Continue reading
“Orchid Beach” by Stuart Woods
Copyright 1998 by Stuart Woods. Published by HarperCollins Publishing Inc, New York. This was my second try at a Stuart Woods novel. I hated the first one. This one is considerably better. There is no question that Woods is a talented writer. Crisp dialog, rapid movement of the plot, short chapters. It is really a … Continue reading
TN7 Hop 2 – Wildwood FL to Tifton GA
203 miles, almost all on I-75. Cumulative tow miles: 395. Truck miles: 271. Cumlative truck miles: 463. The extra truck miles were due to the trip to Ocala to have dinner with my son. This hop was about as simple as it gets: get on I-75 (the entrance ramp was less than a quarter mile … Continue reading
TN7 Hop 1 – Ft Myers FL to Wildwood FL
192 miles almost entirely on I-75. Truck miles: 192. Much to my surprise, I exited my Florida home site exactly as planned – 11am Sunday April 11. As always, I held my breath for the first 20 miles, hoping that the GMC would not throw a shoe. It didn’t. Rusty and I made it to … Continue reading
Fort Myers Cemetery
I did some more photographing of headstones this winter, much as I did last winter at Lee Memorial Park. Last year I posted about 1,500 photographs to findagrave.com. This time I targeted the Fort Myers Cemetery, a cemetery of a similar size (about 12,000 graves) but much older. An older cemetery has fewer unphotographed graves … Continue reading
Seventh trip north (TN7) plan
I am about to embark on my first RV trip without Jett. It will be bittersweet. It will be a different experience, for sure. If anything it will be a test to see if I enjoy traveling solo. Last year I had to try to minimize the time on the road due to Jett’s delicate … Continue reading
“Monster” by Jonathan Kellerman
Copyright 1999 by Jonathan Kellerman. Published by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Yes, another book review. I have been doing a lot of reading because (1) it is a pandemic so what else is there to do? (2) my vision, with glasses, is really clear after my cataract surgery making … Continue reading
“Corrupted” by Lisa Scottoline
Copyright 2015 by Smart Blond, LLC. Published by St Martin’s Press, New York. This is billed as #3 in Scottoline’s “Rosato & Denunzio” series. Well, she must have reset the counter after Denunzio became a partner because there are a whole bunch of Rosato books that precede this one. For those of you not familiar … Continue reading
Seconds, please
This was a week of seconds: a second COVID shot and a second cataract surgery. First, the first second. The second COVID dose was administered efficiently – I was back home 50 minutes after I left. The reaction again was severe muscle aches, but this time the aching lasted just one day instead of two. … Continue reading
“Taken” by Robert Crais
Copyright 2012 by Robert Crais. Published by The Berkley Publishing Group, New York. I have one major complaint about this book and that is the jumbled timeline. There are times when telling a story out of chronological order makes for a better story, but this is not one of them. I found jumping from “6 … Continue reading