Random Past Posts
Guatemala: Sleeping in the Jungle? Technically, I did sleep in the jungle. Admittedly, I was in a couple of pretty nice 'bungalow' hotels. The Tikal Inn (above) was a fun, convenient place to stay and to start other excursions – it’s literally inside Tikal National More...
Cross-Country Colombia: Coffee Farmers, Mountains & Medellin As usual for me, the further I got from the main cities and main highways, the more interesting my visit to Colombia became. * * * My Hertz reservation for a small pickup truck got fouled up, leaving my More...
Italy: Cinque Terre On Italy’s western Mediterranean coast -- way up north on the front and top of the “boot” – is an area called the Cinque Terre (“five lands”). It’s a series of five colorful little villages that have been hanging on More...
Bigtime Ragtime with Olivia Reasoner Back from Cuba and seeing something much closer to home and heart. If you're looking for Olivia's more-recent performance, as Dorothy in Oz, click here. I can remember being in a play or two in grade school and high school, More...
Paris 2012: A History Lesson Here's the last of three posts from a great trip to Paris with my niece Caitlin and sister Jana. I had to brush up on some superficial French history just to grasp some of what I was seeing in Paris last week, and More...