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      • The Holladay Overland Stage: 1 – The Central Route
      • The Overland Stage – 2 Company Operations
      • The Overland Stage – 3 Exploring The Route – An Overview
      • The Overland Stage: 4 – South Platte/Julesburg/Ft Sedgwick
        • 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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Daily Archives: January 7, 2026

On A Roll Today

The New American Digest Posted on January 7, 2026 by DTJanuary 7, 2026

lots of posts ...

Check out this article at "American Thinker" (americanthinker dot com)

"What are you prepared to do to save our country?" by Bob Weir

If the refrain ‘no one is above the law’ is to mean anything, we should see more politicians being perp-walked from their government offices.

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How Can Anyone Not Like Bagpipes?

The New American Digest Posted on January 7, 2026 by DTJanuary 7, 2026

Stolen from the Tube (Utube dot com/shorts/_0er0m0G53E)

I've made that call to the porcelain god many times in my youth after a night of excess drinking.

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The Empire Comes Alive

The New American Digest Posted on January 7, 2026 by DTJanuary 7, 2026

Venezuela, Russian tankers, Hilton hotels, Greenland, ex-Capt Senator Kelly ...

Hold on to your hats people, the 2026 ride is just beginning.

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Textures

The New American Digest Posted on January 7, 2026 by DTJanuary 6, 2026

Seems one of my common photo subjects is "textures" - a photo of nothing in particular but of surface variations.

There is rarely a "tale"; rarely any deep meaning. Nothing more than a surface pattern that catches my attention.
Make of the image what you will - there will be others.

In this case, the side of a barn; east of and not far from Lake Huron, still standing, exposed to the west, never painted ... the barn was built in 1902, the photo taken in 2013.

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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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