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      • The Holladay Overland Stage: 1 – The Central Route
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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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Muzzies Again

The New American Digest Posted on December 15, 2025 by DTDecember 15, 2025

Headline: "Hanukkah Security Ramped Up Across West After Sydney Terror Attack Shocks World"

Lot of media hatred against Jews lately - someone's up to something ... but regardless, it's time to get serious about the Muslim hordes - serious in a way that judicious heavy metal injections are becoming necessary - but why not the same outcry when it's Christians attacked? Do I see the same concern about Christmas markets and events being attacked or shut down?

I find it telling these "refugees" don't head to - or are wanted by - other Muslim countries.

For a long time, I thought the US and USSR should join together, put a blockade around the Middle East, and tell those two sides to go at it. Let's see who comes out when it's over.

A short tale. I was in college (again) when the Shah was over thrown. There were a fair number of Iranian students there of both flavors. One of them - pro-Shah - was talking to me and told me how much he hated this country and being here. I asked why he didn't go back - he told me he'd be killed if he did. I suggested maybe he shouldn't hate the people that essentially were saving his life. He didn't like that suggestion and left the conversation.

Iranians - Persians - are Caucasian. Is it racist to dislike and distrust them? Had to work with several, never met a trustworthy one.

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On The Road Again

The New American Digest Posted on December 15, 2025 by DTDecember 14, 2025

One thing about living in a wet climate is the preponderance of wet climate animals. This box turtle was on a stretch of asphalt on Jamestown Island trying to get from one pond to another.

He (she?) made it.

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Rules

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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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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