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On the road...again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   An Old Photo From Home Ask who? what? where? when? why? and how? ...and a story starts to develop   The photo above was put into the hands of the Footloose Forester only a couple of hours before it...

  On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Whiskey Creek Brush Camp: Getting Around Idaho   Part III   Weekends were always different.  As a practicing Catholic, the Footloose Forester tried to keep his obligation to attend Mass on Sunday.  In order to make it to...

  On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Whiskey Creek Brush Camp and Charlie Kidder Idaho   Part II The memory of Charlie Kidder has been in the back of his mind for these many decades; and now it the time to tell a few tales....

On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Whiskey Creek Brush Camp Idaho   Part I Footloose Forester considered it a privilege and an opportunity to explore as a hitch-hiker. So, there was little hesitation as he turned his eyes north and began his first hitch west of...

On the road…again!Afghanistan to Zambia       Chronicles of a Footloose Forester        By Dick Pellek    C is Cape Verde A three-year sojourn to the windblown islands of Cape Verde came shortly after a 20-word telegram of a job offer was accepted by telephone, and the subsequent packing...

On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Teak is Still Exotic in Central America   As a graduate student at the University of Florida, the Footloose Forester chose to declare a major in tropical forestry. To be a credible tropical forester, that...

  Hints About How Google Earth Brings The World To Your Computer (E-Mail Notes To A Friend) By DikDik Pellek Dear John,  On the stimulus of a single beer, I am entering into an ethereal high.  So, let me proceed....  Google Earth is so powerful that I have been able to revisit...

The Call      The call came to me in a beauty salon. I was getting prettied up to go out that night to a concert with my husband, Clay Felker, a magazine editor and publisher and founder of New York Magazine "It's not benign", said the caller. "Not benign?" I...

  On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Z is for Zambia   The Footloose Forester spent too much time in offices and not enough time in the field to have Zambia stand out in his reverie of African adventures. The large and rural country has...

On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek    Ancient history meant too many things about too many places when Footloose Forester was a child.  He only knew that it was complicated and that people who studied such things didn’t know the complete story.  So it was always...

On the road …again!!!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   California A Memorable Survey in the Sierra Nevadas   When he worked for Cal-Pacific Forest Consultants in the early 1960s, the Footloose Forester held a position that might be described as a Junior Forester, a graduate forester, or...

On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   The Hitchhiker Years before he would call himself the Footloose Forester, a restless boy who liked to be on the road, again…and again…and again, often saw places near home by hitchhiking there. His parents did not discourage him, although...

  On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek    The Peace Corps Jocks Nobody would believe it if you told them that a rag-tag crew of a mere handful of Peace Corps Volunteers would whip the Pakistanis in both basketball and volley ball on their home court...

On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Santo Antão, Cape Verde   There were so many adventures packed into the memory of Santo Antão that Footloose Forester sometimes forgets that he was a paid employee on various work assignments there.  Perhaps the most haunting memory was...

  On the road… again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     Burundi is Rwanda's Neighbor and Shared the Same Genocide   In the first couple of years that the Footloose Forester visited the United Nations-funded government building at Rhuengheri on a regular basis, it was satisfying to...

  On the road …again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   The Rhine Freezes Over   There are times when you and those around you are not truly appreciative of the things and events in your midst.  As a soldier in Germany during the early 1960s, the Footloose...

  On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   I for Iran Some of the nastiest tasting tea in the world can be sipped on the shores of the Caspian Sea, right where the tea bushes grow. Of course, the Iranians are proud of their tea and...

  On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   A Practical Lesson in Compass Reading   Being around the action in Viet Nam for almost three years led to plenty of predictable moments of violence.  But some of the earlier and later encounters were not expected.  Take,...

On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Remembering Elk City, Idaho   Remembering Elk City as it was does not serve any purpose in the present context.  First of all, there now is a paved road (Idaho State Road #14) leading from the outskirts of Grangeville...

    Memoir Monday - Called to Do a Work   Rescue a story about an event or action you felt called to do. This story will be a valuable addition to your legacy stories collection. I would say that one of the greatest things that I have been called to...