Author Archives: 3jmann
Europe 1981 – Living the Parisian Life
Settled back into life in Los Angeles, I found work with a food broker and rented a two-bedroom apartment with my brother Chuck on Ocean Park Blvd in Santa Monica. In the same building as Rendy, it would be home for a couple of years. Joanna and I started dating (she and my sister Beverly […]
Europe 1979 – The Adventure Continues
I returned briefly to Los Angeles in late 1977 and would then join Doug Hoggatt for nine months in Hemet (a time truly to be remembered), then six months living in the Sierra Nevada gold rush country (Murphy’s and Angels Camp) working for the State of California harvesting pine cones with Norm Benson, a gig […]
Bittersweet the Leaving
The last 2-3 weeks have presented a peek at what the future will bring for us in the next couple of years, as we separate from the security of our day-to-day work lives and adopt a lifestyle not necessarily dependent upon a fixed schedule. The first glimpse was during the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend, when for […]
A Funny Thing Happened Friday Night
A funny thing happened to me last Friday night. A colleague from work, Kemet, had won a pair of tickets to the Charlotte Bobcats basketball game and invited me to join him. I picked him up prior to the game and we made it into downtown (Uptown) Charlotte easily enough, found parking in the dirt […]
Where Did that Energy Go?
During this countdown to whatever it is we’re going to call our status after we depart for Europe in May (retirement, no longer working full time, in-between jobs?) I’m encountering a phenomenon I knew would occur, but really only surfaces from time to time. This is the “That’s the last time I’ll do that” syndrome. […]
Testing the Blog
Given the future that beckons us, I though it advisable to start a blog, which I’m hoping will make it much easier to communicate about our adventures to a wide audience.
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