I can remember back in my “staunch conservative” days when they were trying to stop logging in the Pacific Northwest because it was endangering the habitat of a certain owl. I remember thinking how absurd to put the brakes on an important commercial activity just because of this little insignificant creature. These days my thinking […]
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Living in a country where the “mullet” is still “in” I am a little peeved that former governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois has been kicked out of office and personally ruined on account of what some consider bad hair. What happened to the concept of “due process” in the U.S.? Shouldn’t the guy have been […]
The whole concept of global warming and climate change can no longer honesty be called just a scientific argument, it’s settled science. However, it continues to be a political argument and that is a shame. Right now the U.S. economy is in shambles and the best that the brightest minds can come up with for a […]
I don’t know about you, but lately this “economic crisis” is getting on my nerves. I mean selling a Costa Rica vacation these days is like trying to sell ice to an Eskimo. It looks like the only way I am going to get business these days is to pay you guys (that is, all […]
I have been reading the interesting new book by Thomas Friedman entitled, Hot, Flat and Crowded. The premise of the book is that the world is becoming over-heated, over-globalized and over-crowded. He states that what is needed is a green revolution, or what he terms as “Code Green.” Living in Costa Rica I feel that […]
I recently had the opportunity to do a boat tour of the Refugio Caño Negro located not far from the Nicaraguan border near Los Chiles. My agency, Package Costa Rica, has sent many customers on this tour, but I had never before experienced it myself. If you are interested in Costa Rican wildlife, this vast wetlands […]
I grew up in “Smalltown” in the Carolinas. Yes for those of you geography experts I know there are two “Carolinas.” But I grew up in both of them, having spent my early childhood and adolescence in North and my early adulthood in South. There are positives and negatives to living in a small town […]
When Ernesto “Che” Guevara and Alberto Granado set out to conquer the continent of South America one kilometer at a time, what was their chosen instrument of travel…..La Poderosa, man! This incredible journey is documented in Che’s diaries, published in English as The Motorcycle Diaries and immortalized in the movie of the same name. La Poderosa […]
Life seems to remind me more and more these days that I sure ain’t no “spring chicken” anymore. I mean there are those little aches and pains that show up each time I try to do anything my body is not accustomed to. At that point we have a choice. Just give in and don’t […]
The U.S. is a big country, covers a lot of varied territory from the shores of the East, the plains of the Midwest, the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast. One of the greatest freedoms enjoyed by those in the states is the freedom to jump in the car and go anywhere you want within […]
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