Stonekettle Station

Here, have a couple of panoramas from my recent trip to Michigan: The original images the pans were created from were taken in Grand Haven...

As I mentioned in Part 1 , I hate air travel. I hate damned near everything about it. For a economy that’s supposed to be staggerin...

Do you unpack immediately after a long trip? Or do you just get out your toiletries kit and sort of live out of your suitcase for a couple o...

There will be a snarky blog post this evening, part two of things that piss me off about commericial air travel in general and Texans in par...

Home again in Alaska. Long, long flight - but not too terribly bad, except for the Texans. But, really, I should thank them because tomorrow...

I'll be traveling all day Sunday. By the end of the day we should be home. Apologies to those of you in Michigan that I didn't manag...

Jim is on vacation in Michigan this week.  Besides giant killer deer, he is surrounded by corn. Acres and acres of corn. Square miles of cor...

Jim is on Vacation in Michigan this week. He is surrounded by vast armies of ridiculously large white tailed deer - seriously, these things ...

Jim is on vacation in Florida Panhandle, he is tired, grumpy, and ready to be somewhere else. Fortunately for all parties involved, he gets ...

Jim is on vacation in the Florida Panhandle, where Karaoke takes on a whole new, and deeply horrifying, meaning... _________________________...

Jim is on vacation in the Florida Panhandle. He continues to be astounded that the armadillos, which are much like armored rats, don't s...

Jim is on vacation in the Florida Panhandle, he doesn't know what a grit is, but he sure likes them. Especially with bacon, but that jus...

Jim is on vacation in the Florida Panhandle. After 25 years of visiting this place, he still doesn't understand the allure of boiled pea...

Jim is on vacation in the Florida Panhandle where they don't have cockroaches, Sugar, them's palmetto bugs! (Palmetto is an ancient ...

Jim is on vacation in the swamps of the Florida Panhandle, pity him. _________________________________________________ Today's recipe: ...

Jim is on vacation in the swamps of the Florida Panhandle, pity him. _________________________________________________ I've been here fo...

Jim is on vacation in the swamps of the Florida Panhandle, he still doesn't understand the attraction of boiled peanuts. _______________...

Jim is on vacation in the swamps of the Florida Panhandle, pity him. _________________________________________________ I'm in the Florid...

and Jesus Christ is it hot . And humid.