Eugene Glover We had some decisions to make for Days Five and Six, and we really needed to make them before it got late on Day Four, which we didn’t, so we were stuck with the results of our procrastination. I wanted to go see both Tolum and Coba. Tulum being the beautiful Mayan city by the … Read more
Wifi access here is awful! The hotel charges outrageous rates for it, and, although AT&T includes free wifi access at AT&T hotspots around the world when one has international data roaming on their phone (which I do, or I’d be completely cut off) there are no such hotspots anywhere to be found in the hotel … Read more
In 1978, my father and I took a road/camping excursion down the Baja Peninsula in Mexico. Apart from an earlier border excursion, this was my only trip into Mexico. In those days, Cabo San Lucas as a tourist destination was still just a gleam in the eye of the Mexican Federal Government, and the whole … Read more
I need wonder no more, the day played out in… unsatisfactory terms. I did some research (too little, too late) about the timeshare that we got roped into viewing – having said that, it was too late to back out, but now I knew it was going to be the highest pressure type sales pitch. … Read more
We started our trip at 6:00AM, for our direct flight to Cancun at 8:30AM. Even though ASU just ended their Spring Break, there were still obvious college kids on their way to get drunk. Although they only represented about 20 people on the entire flight, somehow we managed to sit amongst them. At first, they … Read more
A while back I posted my video about my dad’s final request – to have his ashes scattered at one of his favorite viewpoints in the mountains. My dad was never interested in geocaching, but my wife, kids and I are and we placed a new geocache – the only one we’ve ever placed – … Read more
Windows 8 seems to be the most illogical, counter-intuitive bag of hurt I’ve encountered in a long, long time.
It’s only taken 24 hours and I’ve already realized that my promise to write a blog post every day was a foolish, empty promise at best.
Twitter was killing it. My random thoughts, gripes and moments of my life were being siphoned away into little 140 character nuggets. By the time I felt like writing about something, I felt it was “old news” over on Twitter. If nothing else than an exercise for myself, I am going to force myself to blog something every day for a while. I have lost the art of writing “long form” I think.
Yesterday, after an accident with a dead pine tree, my father, concerned that his life had deteriorated to the point where he’d be either mentally or physically impaired and a permanent burden to his family, committed suicide. That we, his family – that I, his only child – would have accepted that burden without complaint … Read more