On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Post-It Note—Why The Boat May Be Drifting OK, complete disclosure at the outset….this chronicle is a contrived attempt to make a point that is simple enough to put on a small Post-It-Note. So, as part of...
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It would take many decades to piece together enough of the past for the Tiger and the Bear to share a story about their growing up years. Until they met in Saigon late in 1966, they lived separate lives, thousands of miles apart. After 44 years of marriage, however, they are...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Talk About Your Low-Hanging Fruit Usually, the expression, “picking the low-hanging fruit” has pejorative implications. It suggests the harvesting of what is easy to harvest; before having to exert oneself by going after the...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Schooling for Life The importance of school can never be forgotten. Having the opportunity to attend school should not be taken for granted, and the Footloose Forester was more blessed than most people. Perhaps he...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Computer Learner Becomes a History Scholar This chronicle makes use of the “On the road….again!” letterhead above, not because it is a remembered tale about some brief sojourn of the Footloose Forester to an obscure destination in...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Scuba Diving In The Bubbles Of Jacques Cousteau Despite the horrific loss of life in the earthquake of 12 January 2010, Haiti remains a fascinating place to visit. Our memories of Haiti predate the...
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On the road again...! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Getting Around in Helicopters Foresters and other natural resources professionals get around in helicopters more often than most folks. Kind of like a businessman or woman taking a taxi to get to an...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek M for Montana Having a railroad pass to travel anywhere in the United States was part of the plan to make a summer adventure in a new state after his sophomore year at Rutgers....
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Persona Non-Grata Every person, at some time or another, lets negative thoughts creep into their consciousness. Usually, the thoughts of negative episodes in life come back again and again over the years. It does not...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek When The Fish Are Running By now, the prospects for harvesting clams from Chincoteague Bay in Virginia are fairly certain. Warm weather, low tide, a favorable wind direction, and a calm ocean surface all...
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On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Footprints Lead To Trouble When family and friends asked out of curiosity why the Footloose Forester was in the Republic of the Comoros one year, they became doubly curious in the following years after...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Name Dropping The Footloose Forester has been a practicing iconoclast for most of his adult life. No, make that most of his entire life. As a teenager, he spent plenty of time musing about...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek We Built It…..We The People It’s regrettable that politics has to be so partisan. On the one hand, the concept of partisanship is the engine that drives the development of political platforms by which voters can...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Remembering The Rutgers Tomatoes Thu’s mom, the original Bengal Tiger whose name was Trang Thi Dao, came north with us for the summer in New Jersey, while Footloose Forester visited with his parents and worked...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Wild Horses Of Assateague Island They have been living near the beach for the last 300 years, so the wild horses of Assateague Island in Maryland and Virginia probably resent the hundreds of bathers,...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Of Sausages and Snails and Smoked Squids What we remember from the past as the best pizza; the best sub sandwiches; the best southern fried chicken; or any other dish we remember--is part of the...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Confession Of A Practical Joker The text of the following spoof was culled from the black heart of a practical joker who calls himself the Footloose Forester. He sometimes risked official displeasure with...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia C hronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Mesa Verde, Colorado From among the hundreds of pictures of Pueblo Indian culture discovered at Mesa Verde in Colorado that one finds on the Internet, almost all focus on relatively up-close snapshots of dwellings, tools, utensils...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forestery Dick Pellek The First Time I Met Up With A ….. Many vivid memories are about the first time that the Footloose Forester met a wild or dangerous animal, face to face. Early memories are about small animals caught...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The RT Probe When we finally decided that clam hunting was going to be a steady part of our future lives, Thu and the Footloose Forester decided that one Hawaiian Sling was not enough to...
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