Angaston, South Australia: What’s that? You haven’t been reading JimandJamie.com for the last two years? Here’s what you missed.

Most JimandJamie.com readers stopped reading the blog when we finally returned to Texas after covid stranded us in Australia for a couple extra months. They reasonably concluded that a travel blog would end when our travels ended. But unlike most years, I continued writing. Some were advertising stories, some were family stories, some even covered our travels within Texas and the other United States.

If you’d like to go back and read some of the stories you missed, you can click on the story summaries or just keep scrolling down the page and click on “Next Page” at the bottom of the page to keep going.

Here are some of my personal favorites from the last two years:

Hollywood, circa 1983: The biggest star I ever worked with

McKinney, Texas: One degree of separation from The King of Pop, Part One

McKinney, Texas: One degree of separation from the King of Pop, Part Two

McKinney, Texas: A passion for fashion

Fiji, circa 1993: One man’s fish is another man’s poison, Part One

Fiji, circa 1993: One man’s fish is another man’s poison, Part Two

Fiji, circa 1993: One man’s fish is another man’s poison, Part Three

Buena Park, California, circa 1993: Doing what I can to help America’s impressionable youth

Los Angeles, California, circa 1999: A tale of double doppelgängers

McKinney, Texas: A double dose of doppelgängers

McKinney, Texas: Twenty-two years and counting

McKinney, Texas: The cat who loves TV

McKinney, Texas: Another one degree of separation from Bill Gates story

Lakewood, California, circa 1971: The most beautiful little girl in the world

Phoenix, Arizona, circa 1975: Run the risk of being noticed

Irvine, California, circa 1977: How my farmer father became a supermodel

Colton, California, circa 1941: The most shocking incident in deYong family history

McKinney, Texas: My Whoopi Goldberg story

Ashgabad, Turkmenistan: Closing The Gates of Hell

Kalispell, Montana, circa 1974: The tale of Playboy bunny

Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 1991: Pucker up, buttercup

Somewhere in Alaska, circa 1936: Working on the railroad all the live long day

San Luis Obispo, California, 2005: The woman with the giant head

McKinney, Texas: How to make sure you have a happy Thanksgiving

San Francisco, California, 1983: More Larrys than a Chinese phonebook

Loma Linda, California: California in the rear view mirror

McKinney, Texas: “Ronnie, honey, baby, sweetie, I’m gonna make you a star.”

McKinney, Texas: Tawny Kitaen, my longtime girlfriend, passes away

McKinney, Texas: The time I kissed Bill Gates’ girlfriend

McKinney, Texas: Big as a Louisville Slugger

McKinney, Texas: Huckleberry Chuck signs off

Amarillo, Texas: American Stonehenge

Tensed, Idaho: The town named after my typical condition

Athens, Texas: The tour of European Texas towns continues

Paris, Texas: Bonjour, y’all

McKinney, Texas: Beautiful downtown McKinney

McKinney, Texas: The face of an angel, a delicate porcelain doll