We read a lot on the road, and here is an audio book report of four volumes I recently finished: Arundel by Kenneth Roberts, Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card, Tricks of the Podcasting Masters by Robert Walch and Mur Lafferty, and Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers by AA World Services.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
70 Waiting for the Tow TruckIn Jackman, Maine, our RV breaks down...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
71 Detour on the Fall Foliage RV RambleA mainly musical treatment of our three-hour tow of the 32-foot motorhome, from Jackman to Bangor, Maine. "Coolage" by Anne Farnsworth, courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
72 How to Say Bangor MaineMarooned at the Whited Ford service center waiting for a fuel pump, we have a chance to explore Stephen King's home town and learn how to pronounce Maine's third-largest city. Also, an interview at Java Joe's.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
74 Fall in Winterville, MaineThirty miles from the Canadian border, we learn the do's and don'ts of moose and bear etiquette.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
75 French LessonsWe finally make it to Quebec in time to sit out a storm in Riviere-du-Loup.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
76 Playing in the Leaves - Part 1On Day 23 of the Fall Foliage RV Ramble, in Levis, Québec, my wife begins a quilt inspired by the brilliant autumn colors.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
77 Playing in the Leaves - Part 2My wife gets help with her new quilt from a muse brought from home, and from our Yorkie Claire's creative disruptions.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
78 Playing in the Leaves - Part 3My wife completes he project, which turned out to be a wall hanging, and turns her attention to her next foliage-inspired quilt on Day 26--the halfway mark--of our Fall Foliage RV Ramble.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
79 Extreme Tourism in Old QuebecMy wife and I take a bus shuttle from the KOA campground to Old Quebec just in time to enjoy a tempest.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
80 Pancakes from HeavenWe visit Polly's Pancake Parlor in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, where the same family has been perfecting how to make pancakes since 1938. These interviews tell how they've pretty much gotten it right and don't plan to change it.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
82 Aboard the Mount WashingtonThis has to be one of the best ways to see the fall foliage in New England--a two-and-a-half-hour cruise on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire aboard historic motorship Mount Washington.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
83 Travels with MaryOur friend Tom from Wyoming and his wife Tish bring Tom's 93-year-old mother on an RV trek to New England, where they join us on our Fall Foliage RV Ramble for a week.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
84 Welcome to Her ForestMy wife and I explore the woods of Wompatuck State Park in Hingham, Massachusetts as our 7-week Fall Foliage RV Ramble enters its final week.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
85 Long Road to OmahaOn the third day of our cross-country drive, we got tired and gnarly, but still made it it Omaha and a day of rest at Rod and Connie's.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
86 On the Practice of ZenMy Zen teacher, Danan Henry Roshi, spiritual director of the Zen
Center of Denver, spoke with me this morning about what Zen practice
means for the upcoming holidays. The Center's web site is www.zencenterofdenver.orgListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
87 My Excellent Colonoscopy - Part 1On the day before my scheduled colonoscopy, the water is out in our building. Not a good development. Does everything come out all right?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
88 My Excellent Colonoscopy - Part 2In which we travel to the surgical center, get prepped for the procedure, visit with the doctor, and receive medication which made me forget everything he did, even though I was awake all the way through it. Weird.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
89 My Excellent Colonscopy - Part 3Groggy blogger wheeled to recovery room for talk with the doc, and a wobbly walk to the car for the ride home. Done!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
90 Joy of Great-GrandparentingMy parents host my grandson James for an Admiration Society session in their kitchen in Cambridge, Mass.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
