AFTR's Daily Commute

ZAP · Post by **ZAP** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:41 pm

along-for-the-ride;1351193 wrote: The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt

I loved Charles Kuralt. I watched faithfully since 1978, missing only if I was out of the country. I still watch it and it's good. Charles Osgood is a satisfactory substitute but, sadly, not the real thing.

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 4:43 pm

Hey Zap!

Let's go on a road trip on some of Georgia's backroads.

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:42 pm

Today...let's hop on a bike and do the backroads of Florida:

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 6:30 am

A short trip in Maryland:

Don't blink!

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 9:31 am

Today..let's visit North Dakota for a spell:

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 4:28 pm

Put on your helmut.........

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 7:46 am

Today..getting lost in Vermont.

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:44 am

Today....a ride through Amish country in Ohio:

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 12:54 pm

Just came back from riding some backroads here in Georgia. Old abandoned homes and old abandoned cars.

I came upon this website which captures some of the sites here in Georgia.

Vanishing South Georgia

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:30 pm

What the heck...today let's travel on a backroad in Hawaii...........

Driving Oahu on Vimeo

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 4:36 pm

You just never know where we'll end up. Today..backroads in Ireland:

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:38 am

Today we are back in the USA...creeping down a back road in Arkansas:

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:11 pm

Hello Diana:-6

:wah:How about driving the backroads along the coast of Donegal? You take your life in your hands when doing this....scary stuff indeed!

Or how about the backroads of Gweedore, Donegal, Ireland where my Dad lived? I climbed the mountain in the background. It's called Errigal and is about 2500 feet high.

YouTube - Gweedore County Donegal

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:12 pm

lol That driver was going too fast..........lol

Thanks for the contribution, Kathy. (I can't seem to find my smilies amymore since the FG upgrade.) Hope you had a nice birthday...my younger sons was on the 4th.

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:26 pm

Let's go on a winter drive..............yikes!

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:52 pm

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:56 pm

We've been on the back roads of Wisconsin hanging with these folks for awhile.

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 4:17 pm

Let's put our foot on the gas

and cruise Autumn backroads in Mass.

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:13 am

Moving fast on the back roads of Spain:

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:25 pm

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:57 pm

I just wanted to hear this song again.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:48 pm

Oh I love that song, so soothing!:guitarist

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:58 am

Hey Odie....so glad you visited and posted.

“Take the back roads instead of the highways.”

Minnie Pearl quote (American Comedian, 1912-1996)

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Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:08 am

along-for-the-ride;1354141 wrote: Hey Odie....so glad you visited and posted.

“Take the back roads instead of the highways.”

Minnie Pearl quote (American Comedian, 1912-1996)

ahhhhhhhhh the back roads, so much to see!

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sun Feb 20, 2011 6:15 am

My horoscope for today:

February 20, 2011

Leo (7/23-8/22)

Some folks believe that there's a whole legion of guardian angels with us at all times, right there by our side every time a difficult or taxing situation comes up. They invisibly hold our hands, silently offer us words of comfort and make decisions that would be too tough for our mortal souls to handle alone. Don't be surprised if you feel the presence of one of those lovely creatures today.

A nice one, eh?

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Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sun Feb 20, 2011 9:37 am

very nice AFTR!

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 3:38 pm

I've seen these for sale in catalogs and stores. Guardian angels for drivers. You clip it on your visor.

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along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 3:31 pm

Consider the man on horseback, and I have been a man on horseback for most of my life. Well, mostly he is a good man, but there is a change in him as soon as he mounts. Every man on horseback is an arrogant man, however gentle he may be on foot. The man in the automobile is one thousand times as dangerous. I tell you, it will engender absolute selfishness in mankind if the driving of automobiles becomes common. It will breed violence on a scale never seen before. It will mark the end of the family as we know it, the three or four generations living happily in one home. It will destroy the sense of neighborhood and the true sense of Nation. It will create giantized cankers of cities, false opulence of suburbs, ruinized countryside, and unhealthy conglomerations of specialized farming and manufacturing. It will make every man a tyrant. ~R.A. Lafferty, "Interurban Queen," 1970, a short story set in the late 1800s

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:29 pm

Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety. ~Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 6:29 am

Anyone else still have a record player in their home?

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:26 am

love that song!:guitarist

I no longer have one, do you?

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:25 pm

We do, but rarely play it. We also have the CD player, cassette player and even an 8-trackplayer.

I remember buying my first record player and how thrilling it was to play those favorite songs whenever I wanted to from albums I chose and bought. Below is another woman reminiscing.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 7:21 pm

Oh that is just fabulous that you kept them! Technology has come a long way from records to CD's.

very cool video!:guitarist

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:59 pm

Remember those stacks of 45's?

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:36 pm

March 01, 2011

Leo (7/23-8/22)

Today it's time to stop working so hard to move yourself forward -- you need to realize that sometimes you can get a lot farther if you simply coast and let the events of the day carry you along. You have been pedaling so hard for so long that you haven't realized something crucial: The wind is at your back! So let it carry you along today ... just glide through your day without any specific direction or purpose, and just experience things for a while.

The winds of March are here.

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along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:09 pm

Growl or purr............you're on candid camera.

Excellent candid photos of wild animals:

Wild candid cameras capture animals at home | Biodiversity | EarthSky

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 3:41 pm

Just for laughs..........

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 3:21 pm

along-for-the-ride;1354967 wrote: Just for laughs..........

good one!:wah:

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 4:52 pm

:wah:

MARCH WIND

author unknown

Never mind March, we know

When you blow

You're really not mad

Or angry or bad,

You're only blowing the winter away,

To get the world ready

For April and May.

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along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 9:48 am

"To encapsulate the notion of Mardi Gras as nothing more than a big drunk is to take the simple and stupid way out, and I, for one, am getting tired of staying stuck on simple and stupid.

Mardi Gras is not a parade. Mardi Gras is not girls flashing on French Quarter balconies. Mardi Gras is not an alcoholic binge.

Mardi Gras is bars and restaurants changing out all the CD's in their jukeboxes to Professor Longhair and the Neville Brothers, and it is annual front-porch crawfish boils hours before the parades so your stomach and attitude reach a state of grace, and it is returning to the same street corner, year after year, and standing next to the same people, year after year--people whose names you may or may not even know but you've watched their kids grow up in this public tableau and when they're not there, you wonder: Where are those guys this year?

It is dressing your dog in a stupid costume and cheering when the marching bands go crazy and clapping and saluting the military bands when they crisply snap to.

Now that part, more than ever.

It's mad piano professors converging on our city from all over the world and banging the 88's until dawn and laughing at the hairy-shouldered men in dresses too tight and stalking the Indians under Claiborne overpass and thrilling the years you find them and lamenting the years you don't and promising yourself you will next year.

It's wearing frightful color combination in public and rolling your eyes at the guy in your office who--like clockwork, year after year--denies that he got the baby in the king cake and now someone else has to pony up the ten bucks for the next one.

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once."

— Chris Rose (1 Dead in Attic)

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Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:05 am

along-for-the-ride;1355085 wrote: "To encapsulate the notion of Mardi Gras as nothing more than a big drunk is to take the simple and stupid way out, and I, for one, am getting tired of staying stuck on simple and stupid.

Mardi Gras is not a parade. Mardi Gras is not girls flashing on French Quarter balconies. Mardi Gras is not an alcoholic binge.

Mardi Gras is bars and restaurants changing out all the CD's in their jukeboxes to Professor Longhair and the Neville Brothers, and it is annual front-porch crawfish boils hours before the parades so your stomach and attitude reach a state of grace, and it is returning to the same street corner, year after year, and standing next to the same people, year after year--people whose names you may or may not even know but you've watched their kids grow up in this public tableau and when they're not there, you wonder: Where are those guys this year?

It is dressing your dog in a stupid costume and cheering when the marching bands go crazy and clapping and saluting the military bands when they crisply snap to.

Now that part, more than ever.

It's mad piano professors converging on our city from all over the world and banging the 88's until dawn and laughing at the hairy-shouldered men in dresses too tight and stalking the Indians under Claiborne overpass and thrilling the years you find them and lamenting the years you don't and promising yourself you will next year.

It's wearing frightful color combination in public and rolling your eyes at the guy in your office who--like clockwork, year after year--denies that he got the baby in the king cake and now someone else has to pony up the ten bucks for the next one.

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once."

— Chris Rose (1 Dead in Attic)

southern yankee just went to hers and posted pics on facebook, it really does look like lot of fun!

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 4:16 pm

Just some old photographs of little ole me.

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Odie · Post by **Odie** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:03 am

along-for-the-ride;1355131 wrote: Just some old photographs of little ole me.

awwww bless, your so cute!:-4

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:06 pm

Thanks, Odie. I don't know why my mom posed me in my underwear with the muff. :wah:

I try to visit FG everyday, but due to time constraints, I can't. I can only access the web from home, so I have to crank it up here after work.

Today, Hubby and I had to take our annual blood tests for our insurance at work. No big deal, except no breakfast or even coffee til afterwards.

I received a jury duty summons in the mail the other day..traverse. This will be on the April 9th. So I will do my civic duty..again, next moth. I was on a jury several years ago so I kinda know what to expect. I've already notified my boss.

Hubby has to go for urological tests at a hospital in Savannah on March 29th....and my daughter will be having surgery at the other hospital in Savannah on the same day. So I shall be a busy lady on that day.

I'll be baaaack.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:26 am

along-for-the-ride;1355335 wrote:

Thanks, Odie. I don't know why my mom posed me in my underwear with the muff. :wah:

I try to visit FG everyday, but due to time constraints, I can't. I can only access the web from home, so I have to crank it up here after work.

Today, Hubby and I had to take our annual blood tests for our insurance at work. No big deal, except no breakfast or even coffee til afterwards.

I received a jury duty summons in the mail the other day..traverse. This will be on the April 9th. So I will do my civic duty..again, next moth. I was on a jury several years ago so I kinda know what to expect. I've already notified my boss.

Hubby has to go for urological tests at a hospital in Savannah on March 29th....and my daughter will be having surgery at the other hospital in Savannah on the same day. So I shall be a busy lady on that day.

I'll be baaaack.

not to worry, I can't get here as often as before, so well meet when we can.:-4

I had no idea bloodwork was considered in insurance.

Good for you, doing jury duty!

I'm sorry they are both having medical problems, yes you will be busy running back and forth to each room, please let me know how they are here or on facebook.

Don't forget to turn your clocks back tomorrow night, wow, maybe spring will finally come now.:yh_rotfl

They say it will be a wet one, well, its been raining here quite a bit and its quite depressing, I want to get outside and clean up the yard.

My son and his wife came down yesterday and I played Gammy with my new granddaughter, she is just so cute and I loved my time with her.

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along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 5:08 pm

She is adorable, Odie! :-4

Here's the latest pic of my grandson. My daughter-in-law posted it on FB yesterday. The other photo is of my two granddaughters. :-4:)

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along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 12:20 pm

:wah:

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/vRj8H1mD195M5Mra

Irish dancing starring me and some of my family.

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:58 pm

along-for-the-ride;1355384 wrote: She is adorable, Odie! :-4

Here's the latest pic of my grandson. My daughter-in-law posted it on FB yesterday. The other photo is of my two granddaughters. :-4:)

Awwwwww he is just so sweet!:-4

Your granddaughters seem to be having a great time!:wah::-4

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 7:00 pm

along-for-the-ride;1355431 wrote: :wah:

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/vRj8H1mD195M5Mra

Irish dancing starring me and some of my family.

Oh my, that's just sooooooooooo adorable, you should post that on facebook!:guitarist

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:24 am

Odie;1355448 wrote: Oh my, that's just sooooooooooo adorable, you should post that on facebook!:guitarist

I did!

On a somber note, I found this article from Times concerning the "zero tolerance" mindset. Good points are made.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 20,00.html