Before I begin today’s tale, just wanted to acknowledge that just a couple weeks ago is the three year anniversary of my first post on this blog, which now totals nearly 300 posts. This post is the 150th tagged ‘thrift store’ so just to do some very, very rough math at 25 records each, that […]
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US-1 is the Maine Line
I’ve visited New Hampshire before and did a good job working through Manchester and also some of Portsmouth. I found myself back in Portsmouth but I knew there was little to nothing left there so I turned my eyes north to Maine. Unbelievably, I found an array of thrift stores on the main road out […]
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the space between
the space between records and their receptacles the travelers often depart the bin sees all bold and proud omnipresent always watching but off in the distance on the horizon orphaned vinyl long to make their way back home ‘pots & pans’ herb & mantovani piled high waiting for the phone to ring back at the […]
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Eyes on Iowa
Had to take a brutal 8 hour drive to the Kansas City area. I already have Kansas and Missouri checked off the list but determined (even though it may have been slightly longer) I could take I-80 straight west to Des Moines, where it becomes I-35 and took me right to my destination. So I […]
If there was ever a better example of ‘no rest for the wicked’, it was that I got called to go to Buffalo while I was on vacation in Orlando. I rushed back having booked my trip before I even got home and made my way back out east for ‘fall guy’ type of political […]
Proud to check yet another state off my list! Had an awesome opportunity to head out to Seattle for 5 nights. The work of course was tough, bad hours as well. But lots of down time and I knew in advance I’d be doing everything I could to take advantage. I was there from Thursday-Tuesday […]
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Meddling in Maryland
Well – and I guess I can say this about many places I’ve been – I never thought I’d find myself in Maryland. And not only did I go, but the whole thing came together with just a few days notice. Worked for maybe 4 hours. Can’t beat that, right? Usually a plane ticket to […]
Got a call out of the blue to head down to Wilmington Illinois. Where is that? I had no idea either – I seriously figured it had to be down in central Illinois or beyond. Turns out, it’s just a little south of Joilet so only about an hour for me. So I drove down […]
Probably the final St. V’s anywhere in the Chicagoland area (or beyond) that I have left, not counting out of state locations (though I’ve seen more than a few of them!). I never get out this way so when I had the opportunity, I wasn’t about to let it pass. Nice stash of vinyl, albeit […]
This Savers has eluded me for a few years, it is just too far out of the way to force me to get up there and I don’t get that way for work often enough. Finally made time on a lazy Sunday in my mom’s borrowed car as I housesit for them while they […]