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What’s a movie or book that inspired you to travel?

The HBO series DEADWOOD. I was mesmerized by it. And when I discovered that our local bus tour agency, Cyr Bus Lines was offering a South Dakota tour with a specie stop-over in the actual town of Deadwood, I was all in!

So we had a few hours to mosey around in that little settlement. And to see the actual storefronts with the proprietors’ names (right out of the tv series and historically correct) well, to me it felt like an amusement park. But yeah, it is touristy. You know, every afternoon Wild Bill Hickok gets gunned down at the poker table. For me the stopover was much too short, and we didn’t have enough time to go up on Boot Hill to view Wild Bill’s and Calamity Jane’s side-by-side graves. It was a wonderful trip, especially getting to walk around in the lunar-like landscape of The Badlands. I’d never gotten the travel-bug before Deadwood, but after that: look out World! 🤠

Which outdated technology do you miss the most, and why?

I honestly have to say that I miss the old RadioShack stores. I used to be a ham radio operator. And I think I was one of RadioShack‘s best customers. I used to love to make different kinds of antennas. Because it was interesting how if you had a certain kind of antenna, or if you moved it on a given day. You would find yourself getting all kinds of contacts from a different direction around the world. I was a ham radio operator for decades, and that meant that I was one of the best customers ever for radio Shack. I had my little soldering iron and solder. You know I once seriously hitched up a screen door and used IT as an antenna and was able to get contacts from various places. To do that I had to have an expensive little box that would fine tune JUST ABOUT ANYTHING lol. And I’m not so sure I didn’t probably knock out people’s televisions around the Neighbourhood doing it. But I really miss RadioShack. It had everything I wanted.