outtripper

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Sports or Recreation
Occupation Retired journalist
Location Walla Walla, Washington, United States
Introduction Now retired, I once spent several hours each week, sometimes several days, traveling with Darlene and Nora the Schnauzer (since Sadie the Dalmatian died) in the outdoors of the Pacific Northwest, often with a fly rod and/or a backpack and always with a camera, to research columns for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin . See photos at www.tripper.smugmug.com.
Interests Outdoors, Sports, Photography, Reading.
Favorite Movies Goodbye Girl, Cool Hand Luke, To Kill a Mocking Bird
Favorite Music Jazz, Show Tunes, Classical
Favorite Books Huckleberry Finn, War and Peace, Last Seen Wearing, The Million-Dollar Tattoo, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (trilogy)and the Rumpole and Agatha Christie books.

You can whistle and steam can whistle, so why do you sing in the shower?

Gene Kelly made singing in the rain appropriate.