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    Night Train: From the “Tales of the Imaginary Traveller”

    April 7, 2023 / 3 Comments

    Night Train From the “Chronicles of the Imaginary Traveller” by Wayne A. Melvin At that distant point on the far horizon…. Where the train tracks converge At the far edge of this vast universe What becomes of the Night Train then?…

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    TUMBLING STONES ON THE NIGHT TRAIN TO HINTON

    April 2, 2023 / 1 Comment

    Riding the train in Canada – means built in romance and adventure, pretty much guaranteed with every ticket. The CNR and CPR once stopped almost everywhere along their respective lines from one end of the country to the other. What might…

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    LET YOUR FREAK FLAG FLY – PARTS FOUR & FIVE

    March 19, 2023 / No Comments

    THE FREAKING FREAK FLAG FINALLY FLIES “Summary: Herein is the big reveal of how the Freak Flag was created and hoisted aloft, launching the notorious Hinton Hippie Revolution of 1968. Also included is how Mrs. Litke smelled a rat, a patchouli-smelling…

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    LET YOUR FREAK FLAG FLY – Episode 3 (of 5)

    March 14, 2023 / No Comments

    Vexatious Vexillology and Vexillography Revolution was in the air! Time for change! Down with War Mongers and Bubblegummers!!! Rise Up!!!! And now, this very night, it was all up to us!!! Just Lloyd and me to save the world. We were so…

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    “Let Your Freak Flag Fly” – Episode Two

    March 11, 2023 / No Comments

    Music, Music, Music & The Power of Flowers (Part 2 of 5) A big part of saving the planet revolved around the revolutionary music of our times. “They” had Don Messer’s Jubilee, Sgt. Barry Sadler, and his Viet Nam War anthem,…

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    LET YOUR FREAK FLAG FLY – Episode One

    March 8, 2023 / No Comments

    The One About the Infamous Hinton Hippie Revolution of Spring 1968 A Circumbendibus* Historical Comic Book Rather Loosely Based on a True-Life Adventure (What King Arthur, King James I, Betsy Ross, Jacques St-Cyr, the Litkes & Me All Have in Common.)…

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    Hot, Hot Springs on a Cold, Cold Night

    June 18, 2022 / 1 Comment

    It was winter, a long, long time ago, when the earth and I were both still young. In the days when wizards, draft dodgers, hobos and hobbits still walked freely among us. When people still listened to the Kingston Trio and…

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    Quest for a Long-Lost Friend

    May 12, 2022 / No Comments

    Verily, Verily I Solemnly Declare this to be a Faithful and Mostly Truthsome Chronicle of the Quest for a Long-Lost Friend Who Vanished Somewhere Along the Enchanted Shores of the Salish Sea and the Blessed Isles of Pender, Mayne, Holy Ganges…

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I live for stories. Yours, mine, ours. History, legends, myths, tall tales and oral traditions are what I love to explore.  Some are factual history, others are stretchers, some are total BS. This blog is where we get to explore all of these stories together. Welcome to my world. Welcome to my wanderings…

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