Nostalgic Wanderer Gifts

'I've been taking memory-enhancing drugs, and now I can remember all the drugs I took in the 60s and 70s.'

Mr. Punch cycling

An Appreciation

Once Cute, once handsome, once tall and lithe, once given to optimism

"He's gone from the most-wanted list to someone the authorities would like to talk to."

"Alright you guys, be on the lookout. We're heading into one of the roughest neighborhoods from when daddy was growing up."

Country Inn Yard.

'In my day we would turn on, tune in, drop out!'

"I forgot to misspend my youth."

"The nice thing about school is it makes you appreciate summer more."

"Don't be embarrassed. Most heroic archetypes your age have lost the ability to swashbuckle."

Those Were The Days

'Well, the good news is; You won't need to tax and insure it.'

"Someday, Sweetheart, you’ll look back on this day and think to yourself, ‘Covid ruined my college experience.’"

"Clive used to be an astronaut."

'Somehow an electronic fish finder just isn't as exciting as a 'Ben fish finder'.'

"Frankly, Jackie Paper, I’ve done all I can with strings and sealing wax."

"We've waited twenty-five years to make this trip, and we're certainly not interested in getting there in any six and a half hours."

"Old timers are quick to tell me that the drive to Abilene was different in their day."

Ballon escapee

Youth Hostel, Elder Hostel

"The computer's messed up? How time flies! Seems only yesterday you couldn't program the VCR!"

A bit of Newlyn.

'...makes a change from the zimmer frames!'

The end of innocence

"I'll bet a lot of people wish they had a royal palace to return to."

Beachcomber sees that smartphone displays 'message in a bottle.'

Gene Tierney caricature

'When I grow up, Grandpa, I want to be just like you...retired!'

"I never got the chance to be homesick. You tweeted about me 20 times a day."

A. A. Milne

"Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes..."

Lawrence of Suburbia

'Daddy says, 'Better drowned than duffers if not duffers won't drown'. Well, let's just hope social services don't hear about this.'

'Mr Benett says that he's left his heart in San Fransisco.'