Here is my 2005 PT Dream Cruiser.  My Grand Am was on its last leg, so I searched and found this one on Cars.com.  It was located at a dealer close to my office.   It’s a five-speed convertible, and the Dream Cruiser line was a limited edition.  The color is officially “lava red” which is a cross between purple and dark red.  It was three years old, but it only had 3000 miles on it, and both the interior and exterior were in perfect condition (they still are).  I can’t …

For the entire first week of February 2010, Joyce and I were treated to a cruise of several Caribbean islands aboard the Wind Surf sailing ship, starting and ending from Barbados. This trip was given to us as a complete surprise by owner/president Dean Schreiner at the company Christmas party in honor of my 20th anniversary at Coastal Computer Corporation, now dESCO, LLC.  Tim Brooks and I were hired at the same time by Dean, so he and Kim, Dean and Janie, and Joyce and I made the trip together.  …