{"id":5755,"date":"2015-09-20T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dennygibson.com\/blog\/?p=5755"},"modified":"2015-09-20T09:47:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T13:47:40","slug":"on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mbp_01\"<\/a>In addition to a film festival, visiting ships, a new mile marker, and the country’s biggest Octoberfest (which I’ve yet to attend this year), this week included a parade in the nearby city of Mason as part of its bicentennial celebration<\/a>. I managed to see the entire parade but it wasn’t all that easy. There is a long walk as well as a long story behind the picture at right.<\/p>\n

By the time I started for Mason following the pancake breakfast at the condo clubhouse, the parade route had long been blocked off. I thought I might be able to drive closer to the parade start than to its end so that’s where I headed. My thinking was correct and I parked within half a mile of the point of beginning. It was almost close enough. The parade started promptly at 10:00 when I was still a couple of blocks away. I immediately went into high-speed pursuit mode (i.e., a brisk walk with a few cut corners) but only started closing in on the lead entry as the parade neared its point of ending.<\/p>\n

\"mbp_02\"<\/a>Of course that lead entry carried the parade’s Grand Marshal to whose identity I had not a clue and neither, as far as I can tell, does the internet. The distance from my parked car to the parade end point was about a mile with the “high-speed” parade route portion accounting for about two-thirds of that. A nice, though unplanned, workout.<\/p>\n

\"mbp_04\"<\/a>\"mbp_03\"<\/a>The Mason High School Marching Band was not far behind. They quite reasonably had a two song repertoire for the parade and it had cycled several times during my pursuit and overtaking. One song I can’t remember and one song I can’t forget. For the second consecutive Saturday<\/a>, I got to hear Hang on Sloopy<\/em> live.<\/p>\n

\"mbp_07\"<\/a>\"mbp_08\"<\/a>\"mbp_09\"<\/a>\"mbp_10\"<\/a>In the interest of time, I’m going to forego any pretense of posting a representative set of photos. Instead, here, without explanation or justification, are a few I just like.<\/p>\n

\"mbp_11\"<\/a>When your city is ten or twenty times your age, you can jump — repeatedly — for joy at the birthday party. I’m sure they could have caught up with the Grand Marshal before the second verse of Sloopy<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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