On the road…again!
Afghanistan to Zambia
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek 

 

Musings by E-Mail

One of these days the musings that have been piling up in the email archives of the Footloose Forester may get collected into a single document called Musings by E-Mail.  The collection would not necessarily serve the purpose of remembering the past, or an individualistic view about one country or another; or attempting to preserve the more vivid aspects of favorite adventures.  No, the document will represent an archive of temporal musings that were part of Internet dialogue with family and friends, but with no other purpose than to record the thoughts that went into selective email messages over several years.  As a personal technique to keep the record straight, the assembled record of email messages has been retained both on computer hard disk, and sometimes copied unto floppy disks and then filed away.  The main reason was and still is: to make clear the ideas, and to preserve the words, themselves.

UPDATE:  26 September 2025

This archived but unpublished chronicle from 2011 has finally been transferred to my new computer, while retaining its original masthead, but not visible at this site.  A large number of older files were retained on thumb drives, otherwise known as flash drives.  Finally, the consolidation of documents, photos, and other media can begin.  The transfer of files even results in converting the text into updated word processing protocols.  Tech savvy computer geeks know all that, but to an old geezer called the Footloose Forester, it was an epiphany.