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        • Jack Slade
      • The Overland Stage: 5 – Julesburg to Junction Station (aka Ft Morgan)
      • The Overland Stage: 6 – Junction Station to Latham
      • The Overland Stage: 7 – Latham Crossing to Fort Collins
      • The Overland Stage: 8 – LaPorte to Virginia Dale
      • The Overland Stage: 9 – Virginia Dale to Cooper Creek
      • The Overland Stage: 10 – Cooper Creek to Pass Creek
        • Fletcher Family
      • The Overland Stage: 11 – Pass Creek to Bridger Station
      • The Overland Stage: 12 – Bridger Pass to Duck Lake
      • The Overland Stage: 13 – Duck Lake to LaClede
      • The Overland Stage: 14 – LaClede to Almond
      • The Overland Stage: 15 – Almond to Rock Springs
      • The Overland Stage: 16 – Rock Springs to Fort Bridger
      • The Overland Stage: 17 – Fort Bridger to Weber Station

I find I don’t wish to explore new lands, but to explore again those I have already passed through, trying to see what I’d missed in the first hectic rush … Gerard Van der Leun

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Here’s How To Speak “Engineer”

The New American Digest Posted on January 17, 2025 by DTJanuary 17, 2025

SpaceX had another spacecraft recovery with their "claw". While the catch of the heavy booster section was successful, the upper section created quite the light show in the sky when it exploded during re-entry:

Or as SpaceX called it, the event was a "rapid unscheduled disassembly".

I love it!

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State Of Mind

The New American Digest Posted on January 17, 2025 by DTJanuary 17, 2025

I feel I should be writing something informative, something interesting, something most every other blog website in the nation is writing about.

I'm tired of commenting on the "news": Same old thing, day after day - the script doesn't change, just the topic of the day.

Or politics: I'm tired of reading about Joe and Friend's antics. They're despicable, corrupt beyond anyone's willingness to believe - and it's not going to change and nothing's going to be done about it.

Or "climate change". Whoo-boy, I could fill pages on that topic. Was once my profession. So I don't speak much of it. Other than I'm of the 3%.

Or "conspiracy theories": A conspiracy theory seems to be the truth let loose 6 months before it's supposed to be.

Entertainment is subjective. What entertains me may not - probably wouldn't - entertain you.

I do have a couple of things I'm working on for later posting ... but I just can't come up with sparkling wit every day ... yet here I sit, holding this digital door open for friends to talk with each other - and I enjoy doing so.

So pictures it is - for the most part; when I don't have words. Photos to inspire or amuse or just fill space. Or maybe suggest a topic for the day's discussions - just like the last two years of Gerard/Neo's site.
Bless both their souls.

Besides, I have >lots< of photos that I can post ... more than I have words.

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Gerard Van der Leun
12/26/45 - 1/27/23


Gerard's Last Post
(posthumous): Feb 4, 2023
"So Long. See You All a Little Further Down the Road"

When my body won’t hold me anymore
And it finally lets me free
Where will I go?
Will the trade winds take me south through Georgia grain?
Or tropical rain?
Or snow from the heavens?
Will I join with the ocean blue?
Or run into a savior true?
And shake hands laughing
And walk through the night, straight to the light
Holding the love I’ve known in my life
And no hard feelings

Avett Brothers - No Hard Feelings

The following was posted along with the announcement of Gerard's passing.
Leonard Cohen - Going Home

For a 2005 interview with Gerard


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    My sincerest "Thanks".


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Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
I'm not sleepy
and there ain't no place I'm goin' to

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning,
I'll come followin' you

Take me for a trip upon
your magic swirling ship
All my senses have been stripped
And my hands can't feel to grip
And my toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'

I'm ready to go anywhere,
I'm ready for to fade
Unto my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it


Men who saw night coming down about them could somehow act as if they stood at the edge of dawn.


From Gerard's site. The picture always caught my eye.

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