No pollen ? No problem

Have you seen these commercials ?

Not to miss out on a marketing opportunity, the good folks at Claritin have started selling its products as a way to help relieve sinus congestion due to head colds. Kind of a pricey solution (for consumers) if you ask me but you 've got to give them credit for trying to make sales during what is obviously their slow time of year.

What's next, sun tan lotion that helps soothe winter dry skin ? Hey...

Sgt. Peppers...who's who

The Sgt. Pepper album cover can be seen below as an image map. Simply click on the face of the person you wish to know more about and you will be taken to a short biography

Paper Clips

No Opportunity Wasted

"Turns dreamers into doers"

Finally, a "make over" show that's worth watching...and living.

Thoreau on Seeing - Landscapes

"Objects are concealed from our view not so much because they are out of the course of our visual ray as because there is no intention of the mind and eye toward them. We do not realize how far and widely, or how near and narrowly, we are to look. The greater part of the phenomena of nature are for this reason concealed to us all our lives."

"There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, - not a grain more."

Henry David Thoreau - Seeing - From the entry of Nov. 4, 1858: A rainy day.


It is up to the reader to determine what "landscape" they chose to apply the act of seeing towards....children, relationships and (most difficult) introspection are just as appropriate as the trees, grasses and hilltops surrounding Thoreau's Walden. - TK

R-E-S-P-E-C-T...find out what it really means to Pedro

one word..

Money

I mean how much do you really need to live large in the Dominican ? Please

Here's how the final days went down.

Ted's Happy Place

They just don't make them like this anymore...do you think Barry Bonds spends his off season putting together charts on hitting ?

Imagine if he did.

Merry Christmas !! 

Google Suggest

Google "thinks" while you type....cool !

Wanted : Birdnest in Manhattan, will work for food

Pale Male...long time resident Red Tail Hawk evicted from Manhattan perch

Better than new...bet you can't wait to put mile 88203 on this. 

17.158...Who knew ?

Maybe it was my imagination or just the pouring rain causing the car to hesitate, but I came pretty close to running out of gas on the way home last night. I thought I could make it to the next exit, but I'm glad I didn't.

After pulling in and filling up, I noticed that I put in 17.158 gallons of gas...that's about all you could get into a 15 gallon tank.

Hogs Breath Inn

A nice place if you're in the neighborhood.

It helps that Clint owns the place too.

Not mine...but remember when ? 

Experts Urge People to Unplug Occasionally

Off ramp Ecosystem

I often wonder while driving around the circle that leads on or off the highway if anyone has every studied the habitat that is found on the inside of the roadway? It seems to be a perfect place to study the plants and animals that are clearly cut off from the rest of the world...similar to what Darwin found in the Galapagos, although admittedly not as extreme. I wonder what a turtle, mouse or other small creature thinks of his "world" which is surrounded by high hills, harsh pavement and huge loud vehicles that speed by waiting to crush anything that gets in its path?

Do any inhabitants make it out and then return to tell the tale of the world on the other side of the road ?

Do the birds tell their flightless friends what's out there ?

Or, are they content and safe in knowing that they are just as protected from invaders coming in as they are trapped in escaping ?

Or, do I just spend too much time on the road ?

The Maine Desert...and much more

Odd tourist attractions and hilarious stops for your next vacation or road trip -- Roadside America's favorite places and strange sights