Well…I promised pictures of Basil at Halloween (and I do have some) but the night didn’t go as smoothly as I would have liked. It all started when my son decided he didn’t want to wear his costume. My wife was working late so it was up to me to entertain him for the night.
I […]

Starbucker was the first to welcome Basil, inviting him to stay in lovely Stamford, Connecticut.
A couple days ago, Starbucker emailed me the picture below:

Starbucker’s email said, “I was downloading a track from iTunes and saw this album cover. Looks like Basil and his stretch limo have struck again! I wonder how he finds time to […]

Basil’s arrived in Washington, DC awaiting his connection to Savannah, Georgia. While waiting he called me to update me on the flight.
After our little chat earlier in the day, where I asked Basil to cool his jets just a touch, he decide to buy some books at the Chicago airport. Great news! He mumbled something […]

I told Basil I’d be on vacation in Vancouver and flying back over the weekend, but did he listen? Of course not! And so upon my return there were about 500 phone messages that all started something like, “Hey Ben, where are you?”
It seems as time passed the messages got a bit more desperate…“Um, […]

So Basil hops a train to go from Stamford, Connecticut to Chicago, Illinois…
I don’t think he realized it was going to take 2 days!
Basil left yesterday morning and then arrived in Washington, DC in the early afternoon. That was a 4 hour train ride. He then waited a couple hours in Washington before hopping on […]