Tag: travel
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Here Comes My Girl
Well, to get the key question out of the way right here in the lede – where’s Nico? Still loving his time in Tonto National Forest! I thought I’d do a slightly different blog post this week. I’ll still catch you up on what we’ve been doing since we last spoke, but also, in 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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Time to Move On
Hey everyone! Welcome to 2025! After four and a half months back in our fair city, it’s time to move on. As Tom Petty sang: Yeah, it’s time to move on, time to get goingWhat lies ahead, I have no way of knowingBut under my feet, baby, grass is growingIt’s time to move on, it’s…
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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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Pull Up The Roots
I decided to go with a song off the 1983 Talking Heads album, Speaking in Tongues for this week’s post. By the way, I haven’t used this meme in a while and it’s too good not to throw in again today: The trip has been amazing, but there have only been two spots so far…
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Totally Nude
Am I just going for click-bait here with this post title? Am I making any of you taste your lunch sneaking back up in the back of your throat with the thought of me disrobed? At a minimum, are you intrigued enough to keep reading? Well if the answer was yes to any of those…
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First Week/Last Week… Carefree
So this week’s title comes not from the Muppets, but from the Talking Heads’ debut album, “Talking Heads: 77”, which not surprisingly came out in 1977. In general, I think it’s a bad idea to put the year into the title or lyrics – it makes it feel dated. “Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s…
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Perfect World
Okay, I probably could have used this title almost any week along this trip, in all fairness. This was the last song on the A side of the Talking Heads’ best selling album, Little Creatures. For those of you who don’t know what an A side is, you’re too young to be reading this blog.…
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Cool Water
This week, I’m going with the last song on the last album the Talking Heads ever recorded – “Cool Water” from their swan song, Naked. “But Ken – why ‘Cool Water’?” you may be asking. Well… as David Byrne observed in the Heads hit “Once in a Lifetime”, “there is water at the bottom of…
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Making Flippy Floppy
I’m opting for another song from the classic ‘Speaking in Tongues’ album to keep the Talking Heads streak going for at least one more week. But why reference flippy floppy? Well for two reasons… that you’ll learn about later on in this post. But first, for those who may be wondering where Nico is, and…
Where’s Nico? 