The Adventures Of Tom Bissell
Posted in AdventuresWithYum on Wednesday 27 May 2009 12:00am
In years past I’ve gone to Silverfork off highway 50 for Memorial Day weekend. That was back when I was younger and didn’t care about sitting in stop-and-go traffic for 8 hours to get home. These days I’m much more likely to stay home on holiday weekends. But Sonora Pass called to [...]
Posted in AdventuresWithYum on Sunday 08 March 2009 12:10pm
Four days in Truckee was good for the soul. We sat near the fireplace and watched the snow fall quietly. Yum fed all our food to the neighborhood doggies. I took Yum for a nice long walk in a snowstorm.
Tuesday night was our last night and I wanted a nice dinner. [...]
Posted in Musings on Thursday 16 October 2008 02:04pm
People in the Bay Area drive like idiots.
Today on highway 80 traffic was backed up for miles. Why? Because there were two deer on the side of the hill next to the highway. What. The. Fuck. This would never happen in SoCal. In SoCal there could be blood [...]
Posted in AdventuresWithYum on Monday 19 May 2008 12:09am
Yum does this funny thing with her fingers, “air quotes”, every time the subject of “camping” comes up. She doesn’t think that I camp. Or rather, she doesn’t think that I’ll ever take her camping. So I decided to fix that.
Last Wednesday morning we loaded up the Yaris and left Vacaville along [...]