On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek 3 Rattlesnakes, 1 Eyelash Viper, and a King Cobra At times it takes the threads of eidetic fragments of memory to stitch together a chronicle that is worth putting on paper. The dream...
On the road, again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Flipping the Bird It took an Internet newsfeed story to spark this attempt at a chronicle based on a similar gesture, both acted out some decades ago. The Internet story in early 2025 was short, a text...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Taking The Ferry The wanderlust is real. The people, the places, and the descriptions have since been painted into memory, starting with the wanderlust of an adolescent and continuing through years of daydreams. In last night’s dream,...
On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Generosity of Poor Farmers Mental images of generous people often appear in the dreams of the Footloose Forester. As it happens, they were all poor farmers or shopkeepers who were framed in the sunlight and...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Bengal Tiger - Dive Buddy The legacy of the Bengal Tiger, that fearless lady who put up her dukes to stare down a surly marine in Senegal and a coterie of young thieves in Madagascar who thought that she...
On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Follow the Trail of Breadcrumbs As movie fans and tv viewers know all too well, there are certain lines in the scripts that become classics that develop a life of their own. We subconsciously get...
On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Let Me Take You On A Little Tour (in Google Earth) Those with wanderlust in their blood often can be found in far-flung places, living out their dreams. So it is that a restless forester, who chose a...
On the road… again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Petty Scams Being on the road…again and again…is to invite some scam artists who see every stranger as a possible mark. You don’t have to go out of your way; they most often make it their business to...
On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Gorée Island, Senegal During a 2-month extension of the Environmental Impact Statement phase of the Senegal River Basin Project, wife Thu joined with Footloose Forester and packed her things for a new adventure. We were lucky enough to get...