Tag: adventure
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Our House
Well, it took me the entire trip but I’m finally using an 80’s song that is one of the first songs I think of when I think of 80’s – “Our House” by Madness! It’s a super fun ska hit from 1983, and I’ll bet you can already guess why I chose it as we…
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Sea of Love
I realize this may be a bit of a stretch when it comes to 80’s songs, but in 1984, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin teamed up with others as diverse as Jeff Beck and Paul Schaffer to create a cover band called The Honeydrippers. They put out a super fun EP called…
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Take Off!
It may not be a classic 80’s song, but I always loved that Bob and Doug McKenzie scored a novelty hit in the 80’s with “Take Off”. For those who don’t know or don’t remember, Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas of the Canadian version of Saturday Night Live (SCTV) created two beer guzzling canucks in…
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Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
Well, I still haven’t used “On the Road Again”, but I did go with one of Willie’s signature songs this time and a staple from pretty much all his live shows. “Angel” was from Willie’s 1980 movie, Honeysuckle Rose. Why did I choose this song, you ask? Well, I guess I’d respond by asking you…
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Driving the Herd
“Driving the Herd” was one of the last tracks on the final album Willie Nelson did with Merle Haggard, back in 2015. The album is called “Django and Jimmie”, due to a title track that was an homage to Django Reinhardt and Jimmie Rodgers. I went with “Driving the Herd” because out here at… oh…
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Road Happy
Well, given the theme of this post, I wanted to work in a Willie Nelson song with the word “Road” in the title… …but it felt too early to use “On the Road Again”, so I went with “Road Happy”. Fooled ya! “Road Happy” was a song that Willie co-wrote with Dolly Parton for the…
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Can’t Stop the Sun
“Can’t Stop the Sun” was the closing tune on one of Petty’s later albums, “The Last DJ”. Thought I’d go with this one, because this week, we put some new solar panels on top of our travelling caravan! This probably won’t be a big surprise, but as I mentioned in the last blog post, we’re…
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Tentative Decisions
We are four and a half months into this amazing adventure, and the last frames of the trip are starting to come into focus. It’s just Tentative Decisions at this point (which happens to be the title of a nice track off the “Talking Heads: 77” album), but after hearing from our very dear friends,…
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These Memories Can’t Wait
Okay… when I started writing these travel posts, I thought “Road to Nowhere” was the perfect title. I love the Talking Heads, and it tied in to our plans so nicely. Since then I’ve kind of boxed myself into using Talking Heads song titles for these posts, which wasn’t really my intention. I mentioned last…
Where’s Nico? 