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Travels with Palenque Bob - Tales from the Never-Ending Road Traveled!

Travel has been my life and thankfully my work - my travels have taken me to Central America, Asia and zillions of times to Europe - from a trip in my U-M college days - back when students often took summer sojourns to Europe, rarely done now it seems. But my travels also include very step I have taken - any walk anywhere - including zillions of miles in and around dear old Ann Arbor. Like I say I started traveling abroad when in college and liked it so much I went just about every year for the next four decades - again thankfully because I led tour groups I and friends created and rode incessantly on trains for months on end in conjuction with writing and editing a European travel magazine and business selling Eurailpasses we also created - again when railpasses were a great deal and very popular - we sold thousands via mail and in our Ann Arbor office. In 1975, when teaching high school at Romulus High (MI) I took a leave of absence and traveling literally around the world forn
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FIFTY MIND-BOGGLING YEARS IN ANN ARBOR Well I first moved to Ann Arbor in 1966 to attend The University of Michigan and have lived here ever since! In this blog, I will describe some thing that I've seen and done over the years in this totally awesome place. ONE-ARMED ROACH CLIP ON STEPS OF ANGELL HALL    Back in the days before campus cops, the central campus area was largely police-free unless some major crime happened…. And I loved to sit around smoking weed – one day on a nice sunny day I was sitting on a ledge by the steps of Angell Hall facing State St. And a rough-looking guy with an artificial arm walked by and said ‘can I have a toke on that.’ I replied that the joint was so short I needed a roach clip and before I could make one out of a split match... the man unscrewed his artificial arm and used its mechanical finger as a roach clip and we passed the artificial arm clip back and forth. We both toked and he said thanks – put his arm back on and we
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Location: Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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