On a lighter note…
I’d been meaning to write about Matt Harding’s new book. I mean, what can you write about traveling around the world (multiple times), for the purpose of picking an archetypical […]
I’d been meaning to write about Matt Harding’s new book. I mean, what can you write about traveling around the world (multiple times), for the purpose of picking an archetypical […]
I learned this morning that an old friend of mine, apparently in the heat of the moment, took his own life last night. He leaves behind a wife, infant twins, […]
Face pressed to the glassOut of fresh blue painted steelClattering on polished rails through fields untouched by time Sunbaked straw bricks, packed with clay drawn from the tumbling muddy morning riverStand in […]
Okay, I’m not sure if I’ve got it right, but I’ll do my best. You see, I can’t quite understand Rosa’s English all the time, so I had to ask […]
Brief exposure to Lima through the bus window lookingglass on the way to our Cusco flight. I like it. Folks on brightly painted city buses smile and wave and the […]
Our friends Ruben and Lauren – I’ve written about them, right? Wonderful, fascinating people. We’d move in with them if we could, or failing that, would pretend to have died […]
It’s 11:30 p.m. at the Lima airport, and at the moment, we’re not impressed with Yvonne. The first hint of trouble came as we were doing our international transfer. Third […]
Eastbound, airborne out San Cristobal. Billy dropped us at the airport, handed us our boarding passes and sent us on our way. Now the Bailar/Hong-Dixon-West-Cohn clans are enroute to Guayaquil, […]
Last week, as we approached the solstice in Quito, just south of the equator, I mused to the kids how we were going to be missing winter – in the […]
Overnight, Captain Diego motored us 40 miles west, to Punta Cormorant on Floreana Island, where we were going to look for sea turtles, flamingos and stingrays. Cormorants? Not so much. […]