The vacation ends, the blogging resumes

A week in Boston and New York, to visit Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium during the Angels' recent road trip, will be chronicled here -- perhaps as early as later this afternoon. Actually got to see Manny Ramirez's second-to-last game with the Red Sox -- the one where he got a round of boos for failing to run out a hard-hit ground ball during John Lackey's near no-hitter -- and Ivan Rodriguez's first game with the Yankees.
The Angels created a lot of East Coast buzz during that roadie -- even with their last two games losses on Fox and TBS national coverage -- and the Dodgers are on definitely the radar as well as New Englanders continue to watch the ManRam saga unfold.

A small preview of the upcoming travelogue blog: Cleaning out some stuff recently I came across a Ted Williams special-edition GI Joe action figure in my stash. It must have been some tribute to his Korean War days.
Anyway, before I tossed it, I had to do the honorable thing and remove his head.
During the trip, I took Ted's Head to many places around Boston for some photographic enhancements. Before leaving Boston, my intent was to toss Ted's Head into the Charles River -- giving him a somewhat proper burial. It was either that or put him in the hotel minibar refrigerator.
I ended up leaving him in the backpack, so it returned home (getting through TSA airport screening, somehow) and I'll have to find another appropriate way to eventually send it off into the great beyond. Maybe a trip down Interstate 15 to the Ted Williams Bridge near San Diego....
Stay tuned.
This is Ted Head (taken with a cell phone camera) atop a bottle of Sam Adams beer in the Bleacher Bar at Fenway Park, in front of a display of Williams' photos. Hard to see, but you get the idea. The Bleacher Bar, by the way, is a former storage closet in the center field section of Fenway that was recently cleaned out and converted into a bar that has full viewing access to the game from the large garage door near the 379 marker. Amazing thing to see and be inside.
Plenty of more photos to come....