St Louis, MO January 18, 2018 One day a farmer forgets to latch the barn door and his horse escapes. “That’s bad news,” his neighbors tell him. But the farmer is more circumspect. “Maybe,” he says. The next day, the horse returns… with several other wild horses as well. “Wow, that’s great,” the neighbors say. […]
St Louis, MO January 17, 2018 Our flight to St Louis yesterday was delayed by an Ohio snowstorm and a broken de-icing nozzle that delayed the in-bound aircraft from Columbus. Then, at the gate in Atlanta, fueling equipment needed to be replaced and an intoxicated couple, whose breath would have answered the purpose, needed to […]
St Louis, MOJanuary 16, 2018 Contemplations from 35,000 feet above a world that Allen Funt would envy… Disembarking reluctantly from our cruise last week, we were immediately reminded that the furious shuffling of deck chairs continues on dry land. Upon landing in Atlanta, our first mistake was not having dressed to withstand […]
Ft Lauderdale, Florida January 4, 2018 This is the day the tree came down… …that we woke to find the sink piled with dirty dishes and the carpets stained with red wine and cigarette butts… …that we stumbled down the stairs, spread two fingers into the blinds, and gazed in bewilderment at empty bottles and […]
Between Haiti and Cuba January 2, 2018 I don’t recall the last time I felt so full and so satisfied as last night when we pushed our chairs from the table, thanked our waiter, and walked out of the Pinnacle Grill. Fortunately, this high-end dining option is located near the center of the ship, else […]
A few hundred miles from Jamaica (and that’s close enough) January 1, 2018 Every six years Christmas and New Years land on a Monday. This quirk of the calendar obligates back-to-back Masses on consecutive weekends; the first to recognize the Fourth Sunday of Advent and the Feast of the Nativity, the second to honor the […]
Cartagena, Colombia December 31, 2017 When the Phoenicians ventured from Tyre to found Carthage on the North African coast several centuries before Christ, they cannot have fathomed that among the descendants of that prosperous settlement, and its contemporaneous off-spring at Novo Carthago, in what is now Spain, would be Cartagena, in what is now Colombia. […]
Colon, Panama December 30, 2017 This morning the sun rose over the Pacific. Soon thereafter, we sailed not only upstream, but uphill. Both David AND Alexander were awake at 5a. Did Lewis Carroll script this day? What’s next? Negative interest rates? Five inches of snow in Atlanta before the first flake falls in Boston? George […]
Puntarenas, Costa Rica December 28, 2017 And God said: Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done. The plates beneath the dry land eventually began to separate, creating the contours of our current continents. From the deep, subduction […]
Corinto, Nicaragua December 27, 2017 The benefit of long bus rides is the time they afford to chronicle impressions of the previous day’s bus rides. Today’s, from Corinto to Leon, provided ample opportunity. Arriving in Nicaragua from Guatemala, we found another country with CIA fingerprints (some might say thumbprints) all over it, but also with […]