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Iketown 40s on 10th
Turkleton's post "40s Fridays" at http://www.jamsbio.com/user/turkleton/40_fridays/, was pretty funny and it reminded me of my own memory where...
Read Memory Monaca, PA I'm A Zanzi-Barbar ian
Me and some of my closest friends totally took the greatest roadtrip from PA to FLO-RIDA last year. And I had my Billy Joel Greatest Hits collection or...
Read Memory Mission Viejo, CA 2 of us
Warped Tour that summer was a pretty good line up. That day in Orlando was hot, humid, and pretty disgusting. My favorite weather. I had sat through a lot of...
Read Memory Clermont, FL My First Concert
The concert was called Projekt Revolution. I just remember that I loved this song when they played it and everyone else in the crowd loved it too. It was...
Read Memory Washington DC The Spanish Station
In the (highly inaccurate, btw) movie retelling of The Right Stuff, a beach scene opens with the playing of "La Bamba." It is the late 1950's, and...
Read Memory Jacksonville Beach, FL Nashvegas and The Kearney
This artist stands out to me in a huge way. When I hear this artist today I think about my road trips and the time I spent in Nashville visiting my friend...
Read Memory Washington DC Off the Road
Four days a week, I drove the entirety of the road from the Mouse to the sea-- Orlando to Cocoa Beach. I was simultaneously writing, working as a launch...
Read Memory Washington DC The Commute
The song was old but the commute was new. Any commute was new. I was Corporate Woman now, with short hair and an even shorter fuse.My little apartment...
Read Memory Washington DC Four on the Fourth
There were the four of us and this one album that Fourth of July. Two were painfully infatuated with exactly the wrong men. One ached for a child she...
Read Memory Chicago, IL Superman
My Uncle Babe, a sweet but coarse man, would shout a string of curses at me whenever I asked to watch Superman (with Chris Reeve). From age five to about...
Read Memory Chicago, IL Invincible
The Last Starfighter is one of my favorite 80’s movies. The theme song is up there with Star Wars and Indiana Jones. One July 4th, 1991 or 1992, my...
Read Memory Riverview, FL That's For Me
First I heard the song then I saw the movie. As a young girl just barely into my teens I was instantly hooked on two things—living in Florida and...
Read Memory Roseland, NJ The Gates of Heaven (aka Disney...
In 1977 over Easter vacation I visited Disney World for the very first time. We made the long car trip from New Jersey over two days and my cousin and I...
Read Memory Redford, MI Sharing A Trip With Grandma
I was eight years old the first time my grandma and I made the trip from Michigan to Florida together, just her and I. This wasn't my first trip to Florida...
Read Memory Gainesville, FL Winter Break in The Sunshine State
   I’m not really a person known for doing anything too outrageous, nothing wacky or zany or whatever silly sounding modifier you’d...
Read Memory Sarasota, FL Solo Road Trip
Driving solo to visit my father in Florida from Connecticut early one summer, I vividly recall being somewhere along I-95--southern Nouth Carolina, I think....
Read Memory Florida Our Song
I have mentioned before I moved around a ton in my teenage years. Well on one of those ventures I happened upon a cowboy named Adam and took a shine to him....
Read Memory Florida Lord, Raise me up
If you haven't listened to Matisyahu, do so immediately. Do not pass go, do not collect $200 until you sit down, and hear this guy out. My lovely wife got...
Read Memory Iketown I-95
In the Spring of 1987, I took a great roadtrip with my roommate and still best friend Curtiss. We departed the University of Florida - Gainesville for the...
Read Memory Iketown Gator Gods in Naples
Back to my undergraduate days at the University of Florida in Gainesville. It's August 1985. My roommate and still best bud Brad (see "Humble Abode" post)...
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