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Post by inger on Jun 8, 2024 23:27:28 GMT -5
It not unusual to be an octogenarian 🎶 I've seen Tom Jones a couple of times. He was great! The ladies really do throw their panties at him. I like this from about 10 years (or more) ago… youtu.be/3JWiPFT0v2c?si=_vCgdUxHelDXbgTd |
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Jun 14, 2024 12:06:27 GMT -5
In the study today doing some paperwork, the Mrs. and I are headed to Yosemite this Sunday for a couple of days. Listening to some Poco, a very underrated band IMHO. Early "super group" that deserves to be in the Rock and Roll HOF more than many of the acts that have made it.
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Post by chiyankee on Jun 14, 2024 12:21:20 GMT -5
In the study today doing some paperwork, the Mrs. and I are headed to Yosemite this Sunday for a couple of days. Listening to some Poco, a very underrated band IMHO. Early "super group" that deserves to be in the Rock and Roll HOF more than many of the acts that have made it. Poco can trace their roots back to The Buffalo Springfield and Richie Furay, a founding father of both bands. The also twice had their bass player poached by the Eagles. Have a great trip! |
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Post by azbob643 on Jun 14, 2024 12:23:36 GMT -5
In the study today doing some paperwork, the Mrs. and I are headed to Yosemite this Sunday for a couple of days. Listening to some Poco, a very underrated band IMHO. Early "super group" that deserves to be in the Rock and Roll HOF more than many of the acts that have made it. Poco...a band with very strong Colorado connections. Interestingly, original bassist Randy Meisner was replaced by Timothy B. Schmit, who also replaced him with The Eagles. I once met Meisner when playing a fast-pitch softball tourney in Scottsbluff, NE. Also very briefly met Richie Furay, a "born again" Christian Evangelical who formed and leads a church in Broomfield, CO. PS - Have fun at Yosemite. We went thru there a few years ago on a trip which also included Kings Canyon NP & Sequoia NP. Plans are to do it again next year. |
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Post by inger on Jun 14, 2024 13:10:48 GMT -5
In the study today doing some paperwork, the Mrs. and I are headed to Yosemite this Sunday for a couple of days. Listening to some Poco, a very underrated band IMHO. Early "super group" that deserves to be in the Rock and Roll HOF more than many of the acts that have made it. I’m reminded of the day my late brother said he’d like to go there someday and I had to correct him. His pronunciation was purely phonetic, but with a silent “e”… Yose-mite. Yose-mite what? He never got there, but we did get a laugh over it… |
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Post by azbob643 on Jun 14, 2024 13:17:12 GMT -5
In the study today doing some paperwork, the Mrs. and I are headed to Yosemite this Sunday for a couple of days. Listening to some Poco, a very underrated band IMHO. Early "super group" that deserves to be in the Rock and Roll HOF more than many of the acts that have made it. I’m reminded of the day my late brother said he’d like to go there someday and I had to correct him. His pronunciation was purely phonetic, but with a silent “e”… Yose-mite. Yose-mite what? He never got there, but we did get a laugh over it… Yose-mite get a vegamite sandwich... |
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Post by inger on Jun 14, 2024 13:43:16 GMT -5
I’m reminded of the day my late brother said he’d like to go there someday and I had to correct him. His pronunciation was purely phonetic, but with a silent “e”… Yose-mite. Yose-mite what? He never got there, but we did get a laugh over it… Yose-mite get a vegamite sandwich... Lloyd, the brother I spoke of actually liked them… |
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Post by azbob643 on Jun 14, 2024 14:02:31 GMT -5
Yose-mite get a vegamite sandwich... Lloyd, the brother I spoke of actually liked them… I take it "L-I" was a thing in your family... |
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Post by inger on Jun 14, 2024 14:18:22 GMT -5
Lloyd, the brother I spoke of actually liked them… I take it "L-I" was a thing in your family... Actually no. My other siblings were Wendell, Jr., Joyce, Wayne, Gary, Gail. Wayne had a middle name Leo, and I had a middle name Wade. I had a half sister born to my dad named Heidi. My Mother’s name was Malvina Eliza Theresa Pearl Laguenesse Ingerson. She said she wanted to give all of her children easy names to write and spell… |
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Post by kaybli on Jun 14, 2024 15:24:20 GMT -5
In the study today doing some paperwork, the Mrs. and I are headed to Yosemite this Sunday for a couple of days. Listening to some Poco, a very underrated band IMHO. Early "super group" that deserves to be in the Rock and Roll HOF more than many of the acts that have made it. Have a great trip, 1955fan! |
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Post by inger on Jun 14, 2024 17:38:16 GMT -5
In the study today doing some paperwork, the Mrs. and I are headed to Yosemite this Sunday for a couple of days. Listening to some Poco, a very underrated band IMHO. Early "super group" that deserves to be in the Rock and Roll HOF more than many of the acts that have made it. Hope you enjoy that trip…Always exciting to go to a new place. I can never understand why some folks go to the same place to vacation every year, unless they have family there. I guess I’m an explorer at heart, if not by budget… |
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Post by azbob643 on Jun 14, 2024 17:52:08 GMT -5
In the study today doing some paperwork, the Mrs. and I are headed to Yosemite this Sunday for a couple of days. Listening to some Poco, a very underrated band IMHO. Early "super group" that deserves to be in the Rock and Roll HOF more than many of the acts that have made it. Hope you enjoy that trip…Always exciting to go to a new place. I can never understand why some folks go to the same place to vacation every year, unless they have family there. I guess I’m an explorer at heart, if not by budget… Yep...IMO, road trips are the best, and less strain on the budget. We've usually moved along each day, spending only one night in each place, but we're now to the point of settling in each place for 2 nights if warranted and exploring more of the local area. It's definitely an age thing. Although, as I've said, we've already visited Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon, a trip up the east side of the Sierra Nevada on Hwy 395 has been on my list for quite some time. Much to see on that route. I don't like to back track the same way home, so it's natural to loop thru Yosemite from Lee Vining and down thru Sequoia & Kings Canyon. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jun 15, 2024 5:32:35 GMT -5
In the study today doing some paperwork, the Mrs. and I are headed to Yosemite this Sunday for a couple of days. Listening to some Poco, a very underrated band IMHO. Early "super group" that deserves to be in the Rock and Roll HOF more than many of the acts that have made it. I like how you work these road trips in, 55. All National Parks are great, but Yosemite is always on the short list. Such varied landscapes and views. Yosemite Falls is the tallest in North America and is alone worth the trip. El Capitan is sort of the symbol. If you aren't making it down to Sequoia National Park, you will still have a great stand of them in Yosemite. Tuolemne Meadows will be beautiful this time of year. Outstanding hikes throughout the park. You'll have a great time and be sure to fill us in when you return! |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jun 15, 2024 5:44:08 GMT -5
Hope you enjoy that trip…Always exciting to go to a new place. I can never understand why some folks go to the same place to vacation every year, unless they have family there. I guess I’m an explorer at heart, if not by budget… Yep...IMO, road trips are the best, and less strain on the budget. We've usually moved along each day, spending only one night in each place, but we're now to the point of settling in each place for 2 nights if warranted and exploring more of the local area. It's definitely an age thing. Although, as I've said, we've already visited Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon, a trip up the east side of the Sierra Nevada on Hwy 395 has been on my list for quite some time. Much to see on that route. I don't like to back track the same way home, so it's natural to loop thru Yosemite from Lee Vining and down thru Sequoia & Kings Canyon. That trip along the east side of the Sierra Nevada is one of the great California road journeys. The non-glamorous but nevertheless beautiful part of the state. Funky towns like Lone Pine and Bishop and views of Mount Whitney. I always liked that Humphrey Bogart/George Raft movie "They Drive By Night" part of which takes place on that road. And George Tobias is in there, later to be the beleaguered Abner Kravitz on "Bewitched." I used to occasionally have to go to China Lakes for work, staying in Ridgecrest. That is one lonely desolate place. Los Angeles seemed a million miles away. |
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Post by azbob643 on Jun 15, 2024 7:50:32 GMT -5
Yep...IMO, road trips are the best, and less strain on the budget. We've usually moved along each day, spending only one night in each place, but we're now to the point of settling in each place for 2 nights if warranted and exploring more of the local area. It's definitely an age thing. Although, as I've said, we've already visited Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon, a trip up the east side of the Sierra Nevada on Hwy 395 has been on my list for quite some time. Much to see on that route. I don't like to back track the same way home, so it's natural to loop thru Yosemite from Lee Vining and down thru Sequoia & Kings Canyon. That trip along the east side of the Sierra Nevada is one of the great California road journeys. The non-glamorous but nevertheless beautiful part of the state. Funky towns like Lone Pine and Bishop and views of Mount Whitney. I always liked that Humphrey Bogart/George Raft movie "They Drive By Night" part of which takes place on that road. And George Tobias is in there, later to be the beleaguered Abner Kravitz on "Bewitched." I used to occasionally have to go to China Lakes for work, staying in Ridgecrest. That is one lonely desolate place. Los Angeles seemed a million miles away. Stayed overnight in Ridgecrest after a visit to Death Valley..a teeming metropolis compared to the mining "town" of Trona, one of the strangest places I've ever been thru. As you said, Hwy 395 has much to see, including the Western Movie Museum in Lone Pine, Alabama Hills, Manzanar, June & Mono Lakes. |
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