Category - California

Group 9

To Jack, Jimmy, Tommy, Trains, and Gus…. Ha! You thought that once the California trip was over you were DONE with me. Wrong. No such luck. See, I like a good wrap-up. A photo album of a great...

Part 10: Group 9 – Epilogue

We’ve been back in Pennsylvania for a week. It was 8º this morning. Eight. Degrees. That’s the way things go, though, isn’t it? You come back to the place you’ve made your...

Part 9: We Actually Go To California – Sunday

Sunday We’re all up early. Such wimps, thrown off by a dinky three-hour time difference. Guy does a little demo of his 3D printer, we have coffee and bagels, watch part of a Naked Gun movie...

Part 8: We Actually Go To California – Saturday

Saturday Saturday morning David joins Jack and Tommy in the hot tub. It’s 6AM. It’s true because there’s embarrassing photographic evidence. Breakfast arrives out of nowhere. Guy...

Part 7: We Actually Go To California – Friday

Friday HUGE Breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, fruit, biscuits, OJ, coffee … it goes on and on. Then we walk down to the ocean. Tommy Gilbert quickly finds a stick. He has a knack for finding...

Part 6: We Actually Go To California

Yes, we actually go to California. Here are the photos to prove it. Thursday It’s 5:30AM – Jimmy picks up David and Tommy in Whitehall, Jack in Bethlehem, and Trains in Easton. Nobody is...

Part 5: Single Digits

2018 Arrives David: Single digits. Good thing we’re all relaxed, mellow, and totally in control. Guy: Send me your incoming flight # and arrival time for Thurs Jan 11. That way the limo will be there...

Part 4: Once in a Lifetime

David: Okay you knuckleheads, let’s shoot to meet somewhere … anywhere … and talk about our once-in-a-lifetime trip to California. (And don’t get on my case about my usage of the phrase, “once...

Part 3: The point of no return

Last week of September 2017 David: Hello, David Beedle, travel agent, here … your trusted partner in travel arrangements from the Lehigh Valley to points west. I’m starting this as a new email...

Part 2: Things get serious

Mid August 2017 David (email): No more goofing around. No more loose change and keys in the beer. No more breaking parking barriers in the parking lot behind Mickey Kelly’s. No more shots off of...

Part 1: Just pick a day already

It took me thirty years to visit Guy Ackerman out in California. I finally made it out there back in May, 2017—part of a three week long road trip with Laura and Max—and it was a major highlight for...