Author Archives: George

So it’s almost the end of October and I’m in the middle of teaching Medical Immunology to our first-year medical students.  Our tenants were still in the Flamingo Drive house when we arrived in our temporary quarters in Irvine over … Continue reading →

On Sunday morning we’re off to Symphony Drive in the middle of what is otherwise the “spice” neighborhood of Prescott (Coriander Court, Cayenne Lane, Allspice Way…) to see John and Barbara Gross.  John is my second cousin, his grandmother Ida … Continue reading →

Randy and James’ home is nestled among boulders and  rocky outcroppings.  The day after we arrive they take us for a drive through the nearby mountains along Highway 89A, which offers some beautiful views. Our destination is the old mining … Continue reading →

Jan and I have never visited Bryce Canyon.  We drove through it with Dan and Elizabeth many years ago on our 3,000-mile camping tour of the West, we had spent a couple of nights tenting in Zion but then continued … Continue reading →

We leave Pocatello and head south on I-15, push into Utah past Salt Lake City and the Great Salt Lake then get off the interstate onto State Highway 28, which our trusty Rand & McNally road map shows as a … Continue reading →

We wake up to a beautiful new day, have breakfast and head off to Craters of the Moon National Monument, a couple of hours’ drive, south on Route 75 and east on 20.  This fantastic landscape is of relatively recent … Continue reading →

We’re up bright and early this Friday morning, Danny drives his loaded truck north to deliver his sculptures to their new home, and we take our Subaru south.  At Missoula we turn onto 93 and go through Hamilton and Darby…we’re … Continue reading →

Tuesday morning we’re off to Arlee, Montana, by way of Missoula, to spend a few days with Danny Kraus.  When my father escaped from Germany to Prague in early 1933, with the Nazis on his tail, he was befriended by … Continue reading →

We spend Thursday hanging out with Robin, meet her son Nicholas (I had seen him last as a child) and visit beautiful downtown Louisville.  The three-block area that used to be occupied by dive bars is now mostly cafes and … Continue reading →

After an early start for a long day we head off for a short visit to Mt. Rushmore.  We have our first views of the Presidents well before we actually get into the National Memorial, they’re pretty striking even at … Continue reading →