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Not only is the Hotel Sunflower not sunflower yellow, it's also not even a hotel anymore. I just googled it and learned the place is now an apartment building.
1 week agoLoving your wild trip already!
1 week agoQuite a trophy, well worth the trip down.
1 week agoIt's not just a Hootenanny, the background says it's a MAMMOTH Hootenanny! This is gonna be great trip, "Wild Greg Garceau, Future Pulitzer Prize Winner!"
1 week agoI purposely posted the cheesiest (my word would be corniest) YouTube version of the song I could find, but I had no idea Hootenanny Hoot was a series. It looks like a country-western version of an Annette Funicello beach movie, with a little bit of "A Mighty Wind" thrown in. And yeah, what the heck is Johnny Cash doing on there?
1 week agoWhy isn’t “Hotel Sunflower” sunflower yellow?
1 week agoOn my recent drive from Tucson to Colorado, I stopped in Blanding, UT for fuel. A father/teenage son duo entered the convenience store, wearing spurs. Which made me wonder if it were possible to drive with spurs. It would see so? I do like the jangle of spurs, but like to think it's better to control your horse with less painful methods.
1 week agoSo after the glamor of Abilene I had to rabbit hole the internet looking for where that song originated, and bingo: "Hootenany Hoot" (1963) which has one of the cheesiest, most fun trailers I've ever seen. Johnny Cash!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlAzgS2iOos
Thank you so much Kathleen, but nobody could place me on a higher pedestal than the pedestal I already imagine myself standing upon. (That might have been one of the worst sentences I've ever written.)
1 week agoDon’t worry, we all have you on a pedestal.
1 week agoThank you Grampies. The tour may not be amazin' to everybody, but I'm excited.
1 week agoGood start to an amazin' tour.
1 week agoDAMN! Garden City sounded like such a pleasant place to spend a night. I envisioned the smell of gardenias and roses, not cow manure.
2 weeks agoBack in the day, I didn't even have a weather radio. I was oblivious to what was coming. Luckily, I never had to endure anything truly serious such as the derecho you experienced. That kind of thing could turn me away from my love of thunderstorms in a tent.
2 weeks ago
Indeed, it was!
1 week ago