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The Dalles Bridge (January 2016)
Ellie and I were on our way back to Southern Oregon from a recruiting visit at Whitman College when today’s photo was taken. She didn’t end up going there, so this is from the last time we were in Walla Walla.
2026 is her 10-year high school reunion year and my 40th. Yikes!
Casa Valadez – Anfitrión & Gourmet (Guanajuato, Mexico – 2019)
Once upon a time, 40+ years ago, I grew up in a lower-middle class home, and we had enough money to go out to dinner exactly once a year. That day was Christmas Eve and the restaurant was the Acapulco in Alameda, California. It was our family tradition to go there every year on December 24.
I went back once in the 1990s, and it wasn’t the same. Ownership has changed since the 1990s, at least once, so there is no way to go back to that experience.
I haven’t kept up the going-out-for-Mexican-food-on-Christmas-Eve tradition, although we have done it a few times over the decades. Maybe this is the year to give it another shot?
Sayulita, Mexico (December 20, 2015)
Dark Tranquillity @ 2018 Roskilde Festival
Ozzy @ 2018 Copenhell
The Prince of Darkness didn’t quite make it 77 years. He died on July 22, 2025.
Ozzy was my fourth concert ever. I was 15 years old. “Bark at the Moon” had just come out.
Kai Hansen of Helloween @ 2018 Copenhell
“In the streets on Halloween
The spirits will arise
Make your choice, it’s hell or paradise
Ah it’s Halloween
Ah it’s tonight”