Throwback Thursday: July, 1986. Age 22. Today, we are live from the parking lot at KNAB AM/FM in Burlington, Colorado. This was my second time at this station, as evidenced by the fact that I am wearing a KWKR t-shirt. Photos are rare because I was only there for 6 weeks. When the boss threw… Read More »
Throwback Thursday: June, 1971. Age 7. It’s hard to believe now, but in those days you could buy a van and drive through Mexico without fear of being stopped and killed by drug gangs. We took our 1969 Ford Club Wagon (Econoline van with camper conversion) all through Mexico. This made for an extremely memorable… Read More »
Throwback Thursday: Spring of 1971. Age 6. Here I am, smelt fishing with my dad at Knife River, Minnesota. Knife River is located northeast of Duluth on the North Shore. Dad lived for smelt season. Every year, he’d pack his nets with a couple of empty garbage cans and head north. My mom, however, was… Read More »
Yesterday, we decided to take a day trip to Itasca State Park. Itasca is Minnesota’s oldest state park, known best as being the source of the mighty Mississippi River. It starts here and proceeds to flow for 2,552 miles before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. At this point, you can literally walk across the… Read More »