On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Drinkin’ an’ Drivin’ The large refrigerator magnet sent to the Footloose Forester by a female friend and the Best Friend of the deceased Bengal Tiger was definitely one kitchen item trying to make a...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Where Am I? The main thought running through his head in another of those disjointed dreams was, “where am I?” A sunny scene flashed by, a few loaded words, another scene in a plain,...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Ghost Towns Part of the allure of being On the road…again!!! in so many rural places was the anticipation of knowing that there were going to be a few ghost towns here and there. Most of...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Mantras That Endure Of the many would-be chronicles that have struggled toward a birth on paper, this one about spiritual attachment to mantras, has kicked and squirmed its way, finally, to a nascent birth. The personal mantras of...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The K-Turn and Mountain Roads Our family has a long tradition of learning how to drive from other family members and we all recall episodes of the lessons. The Footloose Forester takes pride in teaching things, and...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Aesthetic Trees Legacy trees evolve from singular or group specimens that have had, or will become, historical, cultural, or botanical icons. The mystique and mystery of remote forests of towering giants, the wildness of tropical jungles,...
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On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Those Fruitful Lunch Hours Over the years, the Footloose Forester had developed a modus operandi for achieving some of his planned free time activities. He was not unlike other people who had both...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Resentment Why do acts of resentment linger in our memories? We remember our most shameful acts, we remember our failings, and we remember our most embarrassing moments. And it is also indisputable that at some level of consciousness...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek KMB662…939…4-16 He remembers faces and most names, but not all. Those mental blocks explain a person’s propensity to block certain unpleasant memories but do not explain the inability to recall happy events from the past. When it...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Dirty Rifle Every company in the training battalion at Fort Ord, California had an ongoing but unspoken competition for best company in each training cycle. Basic Training in the US Army in those days of...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Adventures In Banking Among the many small decisions one makes when mapping out their life, some of them are truly inconsequential but others develop into long-lasting, practical choices. A person may wish to drive a...
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WANDERER Scattered hereabouts are the ashes of a wanderer Present still in the soil, In the crevices of rocks, In the eddies of streams, In the tops of trees, In the wind, Across the land.
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On the road …again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek California A Memorable Survey in the Sierra Nevadas When he worked for Cal-Pacific Forest Consultants in the early 1960s, the Footloose Forester held a position that might be described as a Junior Forester, a...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek If He Could Do It Over Again The trappings of the modern world are so much a part of our daily lives that we seldom contemplate what it must be like in places where there...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Sleeping In Graveyards (On A Visit to See George Stidworthy—American Rifleman) A Footloose Forester who wanted to be… On the road….again! ...by choice, very often elected his own adventures. So it was that he...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Very Strange Bird Is The Pelican Having a short name with only 6 letters didn’t limit the number of ways his family name was mispronounced or misspelled. In junk mail, in particular, it...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Re-Learning Geography Learning the names of state capitals was a fundamental part of geography classes; and in grammer school Geography was his favorite subject. Although some people believe that knowledge is power; others discount the importance...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Washoe Indian Encampment at Wrights Lake, California Only after joining the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy as a volunteer in 2009 did Footloose Forester rekindle his interest in geology. Having the time to document his memoirs helped,...
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On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Trinity Center, California A few memoirs are related almost exclusively to forestry ventures, and some of the very sweetest memories are about the sights, sounds and events when Cal-Pacific Forest Consultants had a contract...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Magic Mushrooms My father told me about wild mushrooms way back, but it was a Hungarian immigrant in New Jersey who convinced me that if you know what to look for, you need not...
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