Day 3 Trailers for sale or rent. Rooms to let fifty cents. No phone. No pool. No pets. Ain’t got no cigarettes. Two hours of pushing broom Buys an eight by ten four-bit room. I’m a man of means, by no means, King of the Road. King of the Road by Roger Miller The initial […]

May 2001 Detour Version 1.0 Day 2 “Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello.” business oral greetings upon a customer entering “Hallelujah, all y’all, Hallelujah.” my response upon entry Ah, the melodious voices which welcome patrons as they open the front door to a 24/7 Waffle House restaurant — home of the Pecan Waffle, juke boxes with some […]

Editor’s Note: Marlow’s Road Trip, 22 years ago, resumes this morning with the experience of meeting America and it’s roads up close and personal! – Vic May 2001 Detour Version 1.0 Day 1 I hoped to slip out of Alexandria to pick up Steve in suburban Fairfax county to avoid any more public displays. Out […]

Editor’s Note: One of those “future news” stories floated by in the stream yesterday that made us shake our heads. Apparently the Harley-Davidson Management has released a press note indicating they are going to go “all electric” to power their magnificent fossil-fueled two-wheeled rockets. We are with Marlow on the Fatboy of yesterday, powered the […]

Editor’s Note: Marlow is on a roll. He is releasing some of the components of a legendary ride to the Four Corners of the United States. On Two wheels. – Vic Genesis July, 2008 Coastal Empire Author’s Note: Writers normally have a moral in mind when penning a story. Not so for most who are […]

May 2001 Detour Version 1.0 Part 1 Why a Motorsickle Roadtrip & Preparations I had been feeling out of sorts for some time — long before the Y2K hair-on-fire nightly broadcast and cable news stories started in earnest.  It was an itchy-scratchy uncomfortable feeling about being in my own skin.  I was tired of waiting for something […]

Editor’s Note: The Writer’s Section at Socotra House is attempting to clean house by actually opening the closet/garage/cellar doors to see what is contained within. This afternoon, we share Marlow’s version of something those of you of a “certain age” will recall: Getting Ready to Get Up and Go. His requires two wheels. And a […]

Editor’s Note: This essay from Marlow is about an epic trip around the four corners of the Continental United States. That complete account of life on two wheels is a work still in progress, and still takes our collective breath away. –      Vic Author’s Note: This new life frontier situation caused me to dig up and rewrite this 20+ year-old, […]

Editor’s Note: The arrival of Marlow’s thoughts- the unfinished ones- was timely this morning. They are bracing and add context to this morning’s attempt to understand what happened in the Opera Buffe on The Hill, the mess in Ukraine and two other regional conflicts in motion now. It is a time of great and fundamental change. […]

The Socotra House Legal Department sent around what they called a “views expressed” disclaimer and insisted we publish the same. An opinion disclaimer being defined by a billing hour’s generation of a formal written statement attributing specific information to a certain individual’s personal opinion. Like other disclaimers, an opinion disclaimer is designed to limit (or totally […]