On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Peace Corps Jocks Nobody would believe it if you told them that a rag-tag crew of a mere handful of Peace Corps Volunteers would whip the Pakistanis in both basketball and volley ball...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Santo Antão, Cape Verde There were so many adventures packed into the memory of Santo Antão that Footloose Forester sometimes forgets that he was a paid employee on various work assignments there. Perhaps the most...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Burundi is Rwanda's Neighbor and Shared the Same Genocide In the first couple of years that the Footloose Forester visited the United Nations-funded government building at Rhuengheri on a regular basis, it was satisfying...
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On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Rhine Freezes Over There are times when you and those around you are not truly appreciative of the things and events in your midst. As a soldier in Germany during the early...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek I for Iran Some of the nastiest tasting tea in the world can be sipped on the shores of the Caspian Sea, right where the tea bushes grow. Of course, the Iranians are proud of...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Practical Lesson in Compass Reading Being around the action in Viet Nam for almost three years led to plenty of predictable moments of violence. But some of the earlier and later encounters were...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Remembering Elk City, Idaho Remembering Elk City as it was does not serve any purpose in the present context. First of all, there now is a paved road (Idaho State Road #14) leading from the...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Those Untold Secrets Every month Legacy Stories encourages members to submit entries and thus keep...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek How Do We Know If We Are Making An Impression? All too often in our daily lives, we are just guessing about how we are perceived by others. The impressions we make in some face-to-face...
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On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Résumé Never Read With the massive outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa in recent months, the Footloose Forester was reminded that the US Agency for International Development, or U.S.A.I.D., is one...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Taking The ALS Challenge The occasion was the birthday party for 76-year-old Footloose Forester who was visiting the Pittsburgh area with his wife. Their main purpose for traveling north from Virginia was to clean up...
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On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Make That A Double! Jaelyn is not yet 11 years old, but she is already a skilled fisherman….make that fishergirl. More than once this summer she has come back from fishing trips as the one...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Detecting The Vile In Greenbackville No, this chronicle is not an exposé about sinister happenings perpetrated by vile residents in the sleepy little fishing village of Greenbackville, Virginia. Our fair hamlet of a mere 192...
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On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Where Chickadees and Squirrels Compete People who read some of the other chronicles of the Footloose Forester probably wonder if everything that is written is really true. Yes, all the stories are true, although...
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On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Daily Visits By Our Furry and Feathered Friends The four bird feeding stations and three bird houses in our back yard may have been among the attractions to our serene residence; but local deer,...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek And Now On Stage …In Order Of Appearance Let me introduce the actors, as they appear on stage. From somewhere beyond the green curtain of shrubbery comes a red-headed woodpecker. He appears stage left where...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Slow Pitch Softball and Some Unanswered Questions True sports fans may not pay much attention to such quaint pastimes as softball, especially the easy going variety of quasi-sport known as slow pitch softball. But older...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Electing the Winner of the Talent Contest Dear Granddaughter Roxanne, The year 2014 ushers in the rebirth of the old fashioned talent contest. Plans for the inaugural launch of the national gala later this...
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Steer Toward The Runaway Truck Ramp Seen at the bottom of page 31, Time Magazine issue of 24 March 2014: • Can you make the world better in 140 characters • or less? We asked online luminaries for their best ideas. Tweet your...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Ignorance This is likely to be the most personal, contentious, insulting, and embarrassing chronicle that the Footloose Forester has ever penned. It is all about my ignorance, your ignorance and the general ignorance that...
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