A personal narrative or memory from a past road trip, vacation, travel experience.
It was my usual drive from South Lyon to Ypsilanti for my night shift at the senior home, 11:30pm to 7:30am. I drove down Le Forge Road, passing the old silo on my left. It had always caught my eye, and I admired it’s stately but lonely appearance. It had a gruesome past, but today […]
I restored and have owned this 1967 Amphicar for 30 years. It was from Texas and was the grand prize at a church raffle in Houston back in 1967. I now live in the Ann Arbor area and usually boat on the Huron Chain of Lakes around the Pinckney, Michigan area. Found myself at Gallagher
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The year was 1967. It was a dark moonlit night right before Halloween and an experience we’ll never forget: a drive through the cemetery in our 1964 red Plymouth station wagon full of my own children plus neighborhood kids wanting a thrill. This was prior to mandatory seatbelts for the back seats. Our station wagon
In the summer of 1977, I was 19 and subletting a flat in Ann Arbor with a couple of UofM female grad students. I was living the dream (even if my roomies were way out of my league). The only thing missing was some hip wheels. As my goal was to move to California, I
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