Posted on July 30, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
“Here honey, try this! It tastes like Maine!”
I watched as the little girl happily took the ice cold, orange wrapped bottle from her smiling, tourist father and took a long swig. Then she stopped, eye’s the size of half dollars. Dad laughed heartily and the little girl looked around desperately for some way to wash [...]
Filed under: Food, Guys, Humor, Kids, Maine, Nostalgia, Writing, family | Tagged: coca cola, Coke, D&D, drink, drinking, Dungeons and Dragons, Maine, medicine, Moxie, new england, soda, sodas | 9 Comments »
Posted on July 28, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
It’s the high season in Maine and it seems like every advancing wave on the beach washes up another family toting cameras, sunblock and a cooler big enough to put a complete thanksgiving dinner for twelve in. I don’t begrudge them their visit. It’s beautiful here! If it wasn’t already my home, I’d probably be [...]
Filed under: Helpful People, Humor, Kids, Maine, Ruminating, Writing, family, home | Tagged: beach, bicycle, bike, bike trailer, cemetery, coast, Kids, loss, Maine, Maine coast, mountain bike, nap, summer, tourists, traffic, vacation | 6 Comments »
Posted on July 25, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
The snow and ice covered rocks sloped down and away from us in an alarming fashion. The same stacked and wintry boulders that had just been inches from my nose on the ascent not ten minutes ago now looked very far away and impossibly spaced to allow for a safe descent. I turned to [...]
Filed under: Back Packing, Guys, Helpful People, Humor, Writing | Tagged: climbing, everest, ice, k2, monadnock, Mount Everest, mount Monadnock, mountain climbing, New Hampshire, snow, winter, winter camping | 5 Comments »
Posted on July 23, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
I spent a large chunk of my summer times at the sea shore. There’s a little community on the Maine coast where, back in the fifties, my Grandfather built a vacation house to take his sizable family to on weekends. How a man from the hills of New Hampshire came to find this place is [...]
Filed under: 70's, Food, Humor, Kids, Maine, Nostalgia, Ruminating, Travel, World War Two, Writing, family | Tagged: collecting, Kids, Maine, summer, coast, cottage, ocean, sea glass, treasure, trading, glass, bottles, lobster, searching | 8 Comments »
Posted on July 21, 2008 by Turkish Prawn
Now, for those you who don’t know, The Doctor is my oldest and closest friend. He’s a year younger than I am and exactly 426.8% smarter. The why our friendship worked out over the years was…
I come up with brilliant plan.
The Doctor figures out how to make it happen.
This brilliant plan came about [...]
Filed under: Brothers, Helpful People, Humor, Nostalgia, Ruminating, Travel, Writing, boats, family | Tagged: cruise, cruise liners, cruise ship, family vacation, norway, ocean, ship, ss france, ss norway, Travel, vacation | 2 Comments »
