Thursday, March 31, 2022

*3/24-3/28/22 People I Love: Brazil - OC (College)

3/24/22 PT 1 The People I Love: Brazil


PT 2 People I Love: Brazil - Ft. Gibson, OK


3/26/22 PT 3: People I Love: Fort Gibson - Sandi Stories / HS


PT 4 People I Love: Fort Gibson - Sandi Stories / HS


PT 5 People I Love: Skipping to Boston then Forward to the Past (Good name for a movie?)


PT 6 People I Love: Skipping to Boston Again


PT 7 People I Love: Oklahoma Christian

*3/18-20/22 Regatta/St Patrick’s Parade Sunday

3/13/22 Cambridge: The Regatta…ahhhh!!!


Boston: After the St. Patrick’s Day Parade passed by


Boston: Copley Square



Great subway mosaic




A big beautiful Boston door (look at the size by comparing to the parking meters)




Comm Ave Blvd at sunset



Boston St Patrick’s Day Parade * Cheers * Car stories

*3/8-12/22 Snow/Running on the Charles/Niles Dunk

Boston: Pre-Breakfast workout


Sculls on the Charles! Beautiful


Stretching after a run, fitness tips and a story


30-min Run and 5-min cold plunge in Niles Beach

*3/4-3/5/22 Niles Beach/More Boston Experiences

3/4//22 Niles Beach 5-minute plunge


3/5/22 Improv Asylum Comedy Club. The actors were as good as SNL, In Living Color, Laugh-In! No, I didn’t volunteer, but I laughed til I cried.



Boston: Faneuil Hall & Market stories





Boston: The Boston Public Gardens down Comm. Ave with some dubiously recalled trivia


Boston: Newbury Street-two of my inspirational stores near each other


Boston: Newbury Street-two of my inspirational stores near each other


Boston’s Newbury Street Experience- treated like royalty by everyone. TYNS! You’re a class act



A must visit. Try the orange chocolate loaf dipped in 70%-ish ganache. A warning:  You’ll faint at the price, but it’s the experience, the ambiance, bakery & coffee aromas wafting in the air. The customer service is the best.





A tribute to one of my favorite movies, Breakfast At Tiffany’s. A very kind driver for The Newbury (fka The Ritz off the Boston Gardens. He said it was the first RC hotel) photographed me. 






Boston: The Gardens musician “Blowin’ in the wind”


Boston: Tour of Arthur Fiedler Bridge and the Hatchshell



Paul Revere

*2/25-27/22 Running/Cold Thermo/Blizzard/Ogunquit Beach

Rockport: Good Harbor Beach run thoughts (more like trotting really)


Rockport: PT 2-Running P.S.


Rockport: Cold Thermo Plunge Safety and Efficacy Thoughts


Boston: 6-8 inches! Sorry about the southbound side of my north face



Boston: Snow Angel



Ogunquit Beach



Ogunquit: Movies that influenced our family (Judy Maxwell!! I remembered)




*2/21-24/22 Misc/Bike Path/Rockport Plunge

2/21/22 Boston: Breaking my rules of no camera holding. Tori Amos’ Spies playing


Boston: Night Tour



2/22/22 Arlington to Bedford Bike Trail: Bedford


Arlington to Bedford Bike Trail: Great Meadows Marsh


Arlington to Bedford Bike Trail: Lexington



2/24/22 Niles beach 5- minute plunge



Rockport: Good Harbor Beach run thoughts (more like trotting really)





Wednesday, March 30, 2022

*2/21/22 President’s Day

Concord: Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House- Outside Only and some inconclusive factoids


Concord: Enjoy! Apologies for the unfocused parts ( I decided not to re-record afterall)


Concord: Center hailing coffee and Good Stuff, architecture, musicians and people!


Concord: Monument and miscellany


Concord: An Inaccurate Telling of Important American History Corrected (PR’s Capture site-Duh!)


Lexington: The Battle Green


Arlington: McClennan Park memories. See description


Arlington: Where I Learned to Ice Skate and a Story


Arlington to Tufts U


Somerville: Davis Square and a Jerry Jeff Walker Story


Boston: Paul Revere House thru tight streets and stories


Boston: U Mass Boston and a surprise for President’s Day


Boston: PT 2 Surprise







*2/20/22 Martha’s Vinyard

PT 1 Ferry To Martha’s Vineyard



Vineyard Haven’s beautiful Episcopal church


PT 2 Ferry To Martha’s Vineyard


Martha’s Vineyard: From the Port at Vineyard Haven Center About Town


Martha’s Vineyard: Ocean View from Vineyard Haven to East Chop Lighthouse outside Oak Bluffs


Martha’s Vineyard: Oak Bluffs Town Center


Martha’s Vineyard: Drive from Oak Bluffs to Edgartown and PT 1 the music that has filled my life


Martha’s Vineyard: Cold Sit at Atlantic Beach while avoiding unpleasant scenes post dunk


Martha’s Vineyard: Gay Head Lighthouse and Cliffs



Martha’s Vineyard: PT 1 The Music That Meant So Much to Me


Martha’s Vineyard: PT 2 The Music That Meant So Much to Me


Martha’s Vineyard: PT 1 Airport


Martha’s Vineyard: PT 2 Airport


Martha’s Vineyard: Vineyard Haven by Night



Gay Head Lighthouse Lookout




The Famous Black Dog Café



Tuesday, March 29, 2022

*2/19/22 Newport, RI

Downtown Newport, RI


Newport: Tennis Hall of Fame, Finding The Breakers, The largest Mansion


PT 1 Newport Mansions


PT 2 Newport Mansions


Newport Shops by the Sea


Newport Ocean City Bridge


Miscellany involving Squalls, Gales and Tripods



*2/18/22-2/19/22 Boston/Childhood Memories/Niles Beach

2/18/22 Boston’s Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market


Boston: John Adams Statue at Faneuil Hall and Government Center


PT 1 Menories of Our First House in Brazil on Guaraiuva Street



PT 2 Menories of Our First House in Brazil on Guaraiuva Street



2/19/22 Gloucester’s Niles Beach Dunk

*2/15-17/22 Harvard/Big Dig/Plymouth/Rockport

2/15/2022 Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government park




Harvard Square to Alewife Brook Parkway stories


2/16/2022 Boston’s Big Dig, Yes I was here for it after all



2/17/2022 Plymouth Plunge


Plymouth Rock and Town Center


A Funny Road Sign


What I know and don’t know about Cold Thermogenesis and bunny trails


Rockport: Upping My Plunge Time at Beautiful Good Harbor Beach


Rockport: Rundown After The Four-Minute Plunge at Good Harbor Beach



*2/10-14/22 Rockport/Worchester/Stories

2/10/2022 Rockport: Pre-Dip Warm-up At Good Harbor Beach


Rockport: The Three-minute test and a friendly passer by at Good Harbor Beach


Rockport: Running Laps post dip at Good Harbor / Running Laps in HS Track



Enjoy my last car tour, for safety reasons. Future ones will be onsite



2/12/2022 Rockport: Full Body Dip At Good Harbor Beach? Watch and See



2/13/2022 PT 1 Snow and Ice Stories



PT 2 Snow and Ice Stories



PT 3 Snow and Ice Stories



Worcester, MA: Mechancs Hall



Worcester: Performance at Mechanics Hall by the Boston Conservatory/Berklee School of Music




Boston: Enjoying the Cold and Music



The street behind Mechanics Hall



Mechanics Hall



Wow!



2/14/2022 Winchester Center





Just off Winchester Center, if I’m not mistaken, sits Barry Newman’s home. He played Petrocelli, a 1970’s detective series. My paternal Grandfather and I watched it together a lot. I babysat for a family who lived here. In case you missed the video, as I was leaving, I complimented the lady of the house on the house. She then told me Barry Newman once lived here.



*2/8/22 Boston Memories

Boston: Pier 4



Boston: Looking for Fenway Park



Boston: Fenway Found!



Snow Ballet (seriously underestimated the partial heavy snow) Felt great - Note: This was the first snow storm after I arrived. It was around 12-18” depending on location. I’ve been training in the cold since last October, and wanted to have a little fun. I wouldn’t refunded it unless you’ve trained, but I hardly felt it and was refreshed afterwards. I also need to take more baa a let classes 



Misc Stories



PE (fka EG&G) A former job in a new location

Monday, March 28, 2022

*2/6/22 Boston Experiences

Shoveling…sorry about my south side view of my northbound self. FYI, used my knees



Boston: The Church of the Advent Anglican Church








Skating on Frog Pond at the Boston Common 🍁Mind the spinach in the teeth! How embarrassing 😳



Boston: Frog Pond at The Common-It took me 45 minutes from not able to skate to a slow cruise



Boston: Frog Pond on The Common after the skating



Boston: View from Mass Ave bridge over the Charles with the Prudential (Second from right), new Hancock (tallest to the left)



A Boston Historical Society tour of a grand home




Norm



Boston: The Common at Sunset



The Bridge


*2/4/22 Harvard/Rockport/Gloucester

Running by the Harvard Boat House and writing letters to family


Rockport: Polar Bear Training At Good Harbor Beach/Director’s Censored Cut


Rockport: Warmed Up after another dip at Good Harbor


Rockport: Tour of Bearskin Neck


Downtown Gloucester (pron. GLOS-ter, or as New Englanders say, GLÓS-tah)


Gloucester: Memorial to Those Lost At Sea


Essex: PT 1 Woodman’s on the Rough Good Eats & Great Background Music


Essex: PT 2 The Woodman’s Combo plate before eating (Westminster Cathedral playing)


Essex: PT 3 Woodman’s after eating…Great background music! Green Onions playing ironically


Horse Stories


My Love For Classical Music



Good Harbor Beach favorite house by the sea



Good Harbor - Island off the coast you can walk to at low tide







A horse farm / Horses stabled and warm on this frosty day


Thoughts on Spanking

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