Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that as a photo-artist, Phyllis works at performing visual miracles with her photos, as well as with those of the keeper, who operates with the photo philosophy that if he takes enough shots of the same subject, one of them may turn out …
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Category:Travel
Kickass and Fruit Fly Travel
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s Covid timeout has enhanced his efforts to see his recent mountains/glacier travels with Phyllis in a more natural context, perhaps like that of a couple of fruit flies emerging from nowhere to seek some of life’s vague sweetness. If there …
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Kickass and Covid Quarantine
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the Covid isolation for the keeper and Phyllis is going as well as that sort of thing can go: the keeper defines it as waiting for “green” at one of life’s arbitrary traffic lights; Phyllis fills the waiting time with soup-making and …
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Kickass and Travel Escapades
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, apologizes for tardiness in reporting the latest in the travel escapades of the keeper and Phyllis, but there were unforeseen developments that threw everything off kilter: They are finally back home after a harrowing escape from Canada during which border officials confiscated yet one …
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Kickass and Canadian Friends
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports a pause in the mountain-glacier chase of the Keeper and Phyllis to visit Phyllis’s friend Sheila and her husband Patrick, and brother Albert, who is in Calgary for a wedding. That Canadian-born Phyllis has friends and family here is not surprising of course, nor …
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Kickass and Lake Louise Redo
Wilson Hui from Calgary, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that there is no doubt that the genius of the Keeper and Phyllis’ mountain and glacier chase has been reached as they settle into a luxurious room at Chateau Lake Louise overlooking the spectacular lake nestled in …
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Kickass and the Glacier
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass the doorstop dog, notes the serious nature of the Keeper and Phyllis’s hunt for glaciers and mountains as they end up on top of 800 foot thick Athabasca glacier in Alberta’s Jasper National Park after a ride in a monstrous vehicle especially designed to traverse glaciers. Standing …
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Kickass and Jasper
Photo by Martina Vitáková on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the Doorstop dog, reports the Keeper and Phyllis were greeted to Jasper,  BC by a junior sized grizzly bear as they left the railroad cars and boarded a tour bus to continue their glacier mountain quest. Jasper is surrounded by the snow covered Canadian Rockies …
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Kickass Onboard the Rocky Mountaineer
Photo by Adam Patterson on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass the doorstop dog, picks up his report on the Keeper and Phyllis’ traveling travails on the mountainous banks of the Fraser overlooking Lytton, BC, a town totally burned up in a forest fire last summer. A flaw in the tracks ahead dictates the delay, and …
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Kickass in the Wild
A Note from the Editor Because Kickass and the keeper–our Mr. Stokes–have traveled far beyond the reach of modern technology, we will be without the pithy humor and all-encompassing wisdom of his daily pieces for a short time. He will be returning to The Pen in Hand soon.
Kickass and Fourth Day
Weixi Zeng, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the fourth day report of the keeper and Phyllis’ mountain /glacier quest for travel happiness, with the information that transitioning from a vibrating upper – bunk closet on Amtrak to a luxurious downtown Vancouver Hotel greatly improved their sleep …
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Kickass and Day #3
Photo by Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the door stop dog, refrains from passing judgment on day three of the keeper and Phyllis’s excursion to mountains and glaciers, except to know that the keeper managed the upper bunk of the Empire Builder roommette, but it was not pretty. What was pretty, …
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