Like Red Ryder BB Guns, Model Rockets are among those toys most coveted by children and most feared by parents. If shooting your eye is a concern, how about being blown up? The reality of model rockets is a bit of a let down. You get the cool little fuel pellets, put them inside a nicely painted cardboard and plastic rocket, run a little but of wire and flip a switch. Zoom goes the rocket in a nice little cloud of smoke. Then you have trudge around looking for the thing once it parachutes back down to earth. As with…
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Kansas City Ren Fair
If you don’t live near an ocean, or Burning Man, then your chances to be an exhibitionist, or someone that likes to look at exhibitionist, are pretty much curtailed. That is where the Renaissance Festival comes to the rescue. Here the tattooed can show off their ink and the sun can kiss the naked flesh. As always the young and scantily clad get a lot of looks from older fellows like myself, but I must be close to that age where they don’t see me as much of threat any more, as most just smile at me now. Oh well.…
Travel To and Travel From
I’ve done a bit of traveling over the past few years and have plans to do a good deal more. Travel, for most people, is easier to remember than the normal day to day life. It has a beginning, and middle, and an end. Like little movies in our minds. That seems to be the way we want to recall them. But after a while, the beginnings and the ends and middles and get muddled.I remember the first time I visited Galveston Island with my family, but it is only bits and pieces, little snatches of the trip that have…