Icewind's Ramblings

A friend of mine had sent me a couple of CD’s of music and video’s from a concert reunion of some old friends I used to hang out with almost every night when I lived in Atlanta Georgia . They played in many clubs all over the south east and I flew them up to Louisville Kentucky during Derby week for concerts there. The group was called ‘Cullowhee’ named from a small town in the mountains of western North Carolina where most of the members went to college. The guys played together for over 10 years and sadly for many of their friends and fans finally decided to give it up as a full time endeavor in 1985. Friendship lasts forever and from time to time since the group went their different ways the guys have gotten together for several reunion concerts in Atlanta and in North Carolina . The last concert was during the fall at Western Carolina University on September 27, 2008. They have posted some of the songs on YouTube which is great since they ...

The things we do for our family can be a mixture of joy or an enduring painfully drawn out experience. Recently I had the seemingly never ending pains of a long road trip with my family. It was supposed to be a series of joyous occasions traveling with two of my grand kids, my youngest daughter (the one who has been sick this past year and a half) and my wife to make our way out of the frozen north land of Alaska to the sunny south and the warmer weather of Florida. We were going to make this a combination trip to visit with my mama who lives with my brother’s family in Jacksonville Beach and also travel across the northern stretches of Florida to attend my daughter’s wedding in Ft. Walton Beach in the panhandle region. The logistics of this is complicated by the fact that Alaska Airlines only travels to two cities in Florida , Miami and Orlando . We left Alaska early in the morning (4 am) with the knowledge that we would not arrive until almost ...

Life Observation # 102 Never travel with young kids for extended periods of time over long distances. Long airplane flights plus long car drives do not make for happy people. More to follow. Ice