That last post may have seemed very random. Well, life is like that. It’s not neatly wrapped up in a simplistic series of causes and effects. However, my mind requires that life is like that, so when I gather my thoughts to tell a story, the pieces must be there no matter how spurious they … Read more
Imagine this: You still use an RSS reader. Maybe it’s been set up for a decade or more, and today, in some small, disused corner, there is this post, from Lone Locust Productions. I’m not kidding myself. The chances there are more than 5 people on the entire planet are slim, and those people have … Read more
What’s this? A blog post? After all this time? It is indeed. For want of a better word, I have retired. My former employer, the State of Arizona had (before they ruined it for newer employees) a fairly liberal retirement annuity program. To be fully vested for retirement you simply needed a combination of 80 … Read more
On June 26, 2016 at about 11 PM I was working in my dining room and I heard what could only be described as an explosion. It came from my office and upon checking it, I discovered an automobile sticking into my home. Outside the car sat with two people in it: a driver and … Read more
Friends and long-time acquaintances will know that I’ve clocked up more hours camping than most can hope to in a lifetime, and I’ve done so in most every conceivable configuration: From sleeping with nothing but a sleeping bag under the stars or even a primitive lean-to to staying in a self-contained truck camper with everything … Read more
Today was effectively our last day in Mexico. Tomorrow we’re up before 5:00AM to catch the shuttle for our flight home. This morning’s trip to Tolum wasn’t particularly early, so we had the opportunity to grab breakfast before we left. It’s a pity they don’t serve the spaghetti with meat sauce for breakfast. Our plan … Read more
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
