In Session Six we come to the end of our first season of The Road to Somewhere. We hit Mitchell, Illinois and the Luna Café, one of Al Capone’s regular stops in the 1930s. Today it is a bar and restaurant. Then it also had an illegal gambling casino in the basement and a brothel upstairs. Mitchell… Continue reading Say it again, “Sam”
Month: November 2023
Wandering
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, Gandalf the wizard quotes from a poem titled “The Riddle of Strider” the famous words, “All who wander are not lost.” These words do not apply to the nation of Israel in the book of Numbers. You might change the words to “All who wander are sometimes lost.” In… Continue reading Wandering
Put the Top Up!
Leaving Funks Grove and heading to Springfield, John and Joy put the top up on the Vette and head for the land of Lincoln. Episode Four takes them to their first night’s stop. With separate rooms, the two stay at the President Lincoln Hotel. After checking in, they head to the Lincoln memorial where Abraham Lincoln and many… Continue reading Put the Top Up!