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I was once asked to contribute some memories for a book on hitch-hiking, and spent the better part of one night recalling stories of bygone years. It was the start of a tradition that grew into this book, which continues to grow with every new experience. 

It's a rather lengthy piece for on-line browsing, but it is broken down into a great many very short stories, that are all essentially unrelated and can be read in more or less any order, making on-line browsing more realistic. I've included a rough word count of each piece in the table of contents to help in navigating, as some are decidedly longer than others, influencing the commitment involved in following a link and deciding to read. This is the sort of navigation aid that too many web sites lack in my mind. Note however, that each chapter is on one page, and it is the chapter's whole word count that reflects the load time of the page, if anything.  Few, large pages facilitate a dowload for local reading and/or printing as well.

As time goes by, and the book grows, the style is evolving as well. You'll find that first chapter is purely anecdotal representing memories of years long passed. The later chapters were written progressively nearer the events they describe, and could attract a little more precision. In particular while I've stuck to an anecdotal presentation, trying to present only the meat not the fat so to speak, the snippets of stories in the later chapters have more material tying one story to the next, so that they could conceivably be read as a flowing chapter as well as a pile of individual anecdotes. Indeed the later chapters are in fact better read as a whole I think, there is a certain romance that shines through the web of stories they present. The whole is more than the sum of the parts ... 

Your average paperback novel has between 100,000 and 150,000 words and this currently stands at around 70,000 which should provide some clue as to its total size. 

I welcome and encourage feedback. In particular I would appreciate any effort to report typographical errors, but I'd be grateful for any feedback on content as well.