If not for Hurricane Katrina in 2005, I am pretty sure there would be no such thing as the Roaming Parkers. I don’t believe in coincidences. I do believe in a woman’s intuition, and wholeheartedly believe in miracles. This is… Read More ›
Month: August 2017
Review – Kelty Tioga external frame backpack
Like perhaps many of us, the Roaming Parkers got their first backpacking gear as hand-me-downs. When our oldest son first got into Scouts a retired Scoutmaster gave him a backpack, saying it’d seen a lot of use when he and… Read More ›
Small fall 2016 adventures
A few days ago I published a sampling of just a few of the craziest, grand adventures that the Roaming Parkers want to do eventually, but it can’t be all moon shots all the time! There have to be some… Read More ›
10 Essentials – pocket knife
When I was a kid my dad asked me, if I were stuck on a tropical island with only one piece of equipment, what would it be? I don’t remember what I said, but it was probably something like a… Read More ›
What you missed at the Judo Jamboree last weekend
Since 2006, we’ve been having seminars at Mokuren Dojo that we call Aiki Buddies Gatherings (ABGs) or Judo Buddies Gatherings (JBGs). Some years we had one ABG and some years we’ve had 2 or 3, so I haven’t been able… Read More ›
The old swimmin’-hole
Oh! the old swimmin’-hole! whare the crick so still and deep Looked like a baby-river that was laying half asleep, And the gurgle of the worter round the drift jest below Sounded like the laugh of something we onc’t ust… Read More ›
Tokio Hirano, the judo master
There was this judo master named Tokio Hirano that some folks say was the greatest judo technician in history. When he moved from Japan to Europe in the early 1950s he developed the habit of challenging all the black belts… Read More ›
