Tall and True Tales of Travel and Trivia – A collection of stories – tall and true – fueled by a free spirited life of journeying to remote parts of the world – of personal experiences and impressions and imaginative events, construed and sometimes embellished to purvey humor, interest and readability.
- The Author – Sailor, writer, painter, illustrator, mechanical designer & innovator, teacher, steam locomotive fitter, diesel fitter, machinist, pragmatist and humanist.
- Do you ever ???…. I do!! – sit back on a park bench and contemplate life around you. The trees short and tall, leaves on nearby foliage, grass on the ground in a myriad shades of green. Flowers in a contrast of colors. The animals too…….ants, beetles, snails, worms, all going about their life’s purpose. Bees buzzing, birds singing and people walking, sometimes talking, all contributing to life’s rich pattern.
- Do you ever ???…. I do!! – sit on a beach front log looking at the ocean, listening to the constant noise of breaking waves, of sea gulls screeching and gliding on the wind. The life, at waters edge, as broken waves swirl up the beach or crash against barnacled rocks, little crabs swept up by it then scrambling back into it, in a never ending quest for life!!
- These are my favorite places to drift away, to dream of life , my own life and of people I’ve known through my life. The direction I took and the direction they might have taken.
- Do you ever ???….. I do!! – get carried away by thoughts of the past, of successes and failures, but not dwell on them for too long.
- Do you ever consider how the past stimulates your thoughts of the future!!
- The mind has infinite capacity to imagine and when captured on a topic of interest, its diversity – you discover – is equally infinite.
- The author is a well rounded solo traveler on land and sea and lives in Vancouver, Canada.
- In pre and post Covid – home is on Anestina, a 36 foot floating metal vessel, powered by the wind, now on the hard in the heat of Mexico .
