It has been quite a few years since I last toured around mainland Mexico, over fifty in fact, but now retired and living here with plenty of time on my hand’s I decided to do so again. The main reason being that “The Baja Run” (which means to the end of the peninsular and back) has gotten to...
Off the Map: Four Columbians take adventure vacations By ERIN J. BERNARD November 16, 2007 | 3:00 p.m. CST LaVonne Patterson, 77, traveled to New Zealand in 2006 to put up house siding in the rain. Dre Merello, 24, went to Italy last year, studied yoga and saw her future in the swinging pendulum of...
DudeX Crushes a Huge Steelhead Despite Adverse Conditions I just got back from the hardcore fishing trip of a lifetime. We fished 15 hours a day despite rough weather, and explored new species and techniques. I landed a hard fighting fish against all odds, and created a fish story that will not soon...
After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State by the obviously brilliant and very well-schooled scholar Paul Edward Gottfried was a great treat to understand the transition between classical liberalism to modern day liberalism and the subsequent rise of the "Managerial State," and its...
Well, after this weekend, I no longer consider myself a tourist….maybe I’m still a “gringa” but no longer a tourist. This weekend, we traveled like the locals. On Saturday, we took a cab into el centro to catch a bus to Rio Grande village, the nearest town to La Laguna Chacagua, our final...
I know, I know, this blog is meant to be about social media and social networking, but I couldn't resist writing about another piece of new technology that I know well - the Treo 750, one of the newest GSM Windows Mobile phones on the market. On January 5th, Palm, Inc. announced the launch of the...
Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the World, is the mythical birth place of the first Incas. The Inca civilisation rose and fell within five hundred years. They reined over 10 million people and conquered lands as far North as Quito, Ecuador and as far south as Chile. Isolated from the...
It began like any 22 hour trip: long legs in middle seats, lost luggage and missed connections. Welcome to Chile, I hope you weren't expecting any clothes. Or fishing gear. Thank you American Airlines, I wanted to love you, but you made that impossible. But we were finally in Chile, and Chile is...
This is a long one, mainly because I’m at home and have nothing else to do. Enjoy! This past weekend I had the opportunity to spend some time with my parents, my brother, his wife, and their daughter. It was really a great weekend. My brother, Rusty, is a very busy guy and we’re often separated...
How has Malaysia been for the past week? Has Anwar Ibrahim become the PM? Haha, no. From what I read in the UMNO-owned newspapers on the airplane, the price of fuel has gone up. Crap, now it would probably take RM 60 to get a full tank for my car. Nevermind, I'll avoid pointless 'scenic' drives...
Does that rhyme? Well, yesterday was a bit of a long day to be honest, so I completely forgot to even make a post until right before I was going to go to bed, which just doesn't work for me. Saturday started with a 7am house-call by Comcast, or as they're referred to in this house, El Diablo. It...
As I walked along the rough outline of pavement that was supposed to be a road, the soft whoosh of tires slicing through a freshly made puddle came up behind me. I looked to my left as an SUV veered strikingly close to me, piloted by a young woman with a baby on her lap. I watched the SUV rattle...
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Today I met up with a friend for lunch at Pastamania. While I was queuing to order our food, this lady and her daughter practically shoved me aside and squeezed her way through to look at the menu on the counter. It's Pastamania, there's menu everywhere, why do they need to see this one? And they...
Back in Marrakesh! Spent the last week in Casablanca, Rabat (the capital), Fes and Meknes. My tour finished this morning but I am also staying tonight. Back to London tomoirrow and off to New York on Monday! Pretty excited about that, but sad because that means this trip is coming to an end. I have...
I've had my current phone for about one and a half years now. Avis gave me my Samsung D900 as a christmas present back then and made me the happiest girl aounrd. The proudest girl, too, because damn if it wasn't a sweet, slim, sexy phone. (How odd that the description of my phone would fit that of a...
For those of you that dont know me well, Im not an outdoorsy person. Not a risk taker, very lazy indeed. Well, I was invited to come a long on a camping/whitewater rafting trip for this weekend in West Virginia. I was told that it wasnt a big deal, that you dont have to be in shape. When I looked...
For those of you that dont know me well, Im not an outdoorsy person. Not a risk taker, very lazy indeed. Well, I was invited to come a long on a camping/whitewater rafting trip for this weekend in West Virginia. I was told that it wasnt a big deal, that you dont have to be in shape. When I looked...
Goodbye Nepal I’ve spent the first ten days of my trip to India in the hospital. I really got sidetracked in Nepal. I know I've said repeatedly how much I loved it there and after six weeks I still hated to leave the place. I became part of a family. I met a group of river rafting and kayaking...
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