Notes From Beyond The Planet of the Apps 2028: Road Revisit (summer 2016) Coastal Empire California Route 46 in Paso Robles region W, her son and I rode motorcycles through Silicon Valley and Monterey today en route the boy’s 33rd birthday celebration in Vegas. The valley is where, almost forty years earlier while at a […]

Notes from Beyond the Planet of the Apps 2028: End of My Journal Days and Early Outland Christmases Journal Page If readers have been able to follow in some recognizable chronological order my essays based on my long ago journals, God bless ’em, since I have been long dead and unavailable to assist them putting […]

Notes from Beyond the Planet of the Apps 2028: App Trap App-World’s key insight was that to ensnare humans and deaden their minds was the absence of suffering. The pain from which the Golden Western Valley freed us was that the world is not as we want it to be. Their new world led humans […]

Author’s Note: If I could time travel just once, I’d go back in time and offer some advice to my 40 year old self…. Marlow Editor’s note: I would hit that cocky young fool with my cane. – Vic It was a very good year. I turned 40, pinned on Commander, my alma mater won […]

Famous sci-fi movie time machines Every now and then during this post-truth era, I wonder if time travel would settle our current arguments over what is factual and what is fake news. Then I awake from this reverie and remember that it wouldn’t matter, since the instances of disagreement would multiply at a greater rate […]

I motorcycled many tens of thousands of miles of blue highway country that took me through, over and by mountains, fields, forests, prairies,lake shores, river valleys and ocean beaches. Fences of all types now and then marked these landscapes. During the early years we would stop infrequently if not haphazardly to contemplate the unexpected beauty […]

Notes from Beyond the Planet of the Apps 2028: Down-low on the Daily Upload We had not yet left the Hostess City. From the surrounding stuff in which the sources notes for this piece were sandwiched, I penned them in 2019. I was sitting in a comfy worn brown leather chair with my feet propped […]

I was enjoying some quality coffee time at one of the sidewalk tables at the Sentient Bean. I had a fabulous view of the southern end of Forsyth Park with its azaleas in full bloom, It was the first true day of a much delayed spring here in the Hostess City. The early morning commuters […]

Postcard: Early Morning Mist in the Great Smoky Mountains I rode my Honda 175 from the upper Midwest to my new home in North Carolina. This was day two of the longest motorcycle journey I have attempted. It might be over 800 miles when I total up the legs. The 10.5 cubic inch powered motorcycle […]

Road Small Town Talk (summer 2005) We had come to the place on this motorcycle trip where we were used to our presence in little towns calling idle attention to ourselves with our strange dress and roadtrip adventures that we shared with the home-bound during our encounters. To a certain extent we were knights of […]