Bernie Goldbach in Cashel | Photo snapped in Colorado
WE'RE WELL OVERDUE for a truly American Fourth of July because this July Fourth is the 20th one I've spent away from home. I miss the 4th more than I miss any other national holiday.
When our kids get old enough to appreciate a truly American adventure, we'll spend the last week of June and the first week of July in the wide open expanse of North America, some place west of the Mississippi, several thousand metres above the plains. It's in that rarefied air that I truly breathed America. It's in the Rocky Mountains where I literally earned my stripes and before I keel over, I want to try to walk those highlands once again so I'm sending this post back to myself in the year 2023, the year when Mia might be the legal driver of a car we'll rent to recast the great Westward Ho Adventure Drive.
And we'll still have The Boss on the radio (track follows).
Bernie Goldbach curates links to special events and has a photoset of the journey that needs rewinding.
Previously: "Missing the Fourth", Inside View from Ireland, July 4, 2011.
Now: Independence Day on Google Plus.
Bonus Link: My Fourth of July Playlist.
