1. None of my typical day is spent strapped down in a small metal container alternating between abject boredom and fear for my life. 2. At least some of my day is spent zooming on my bike with the wind in my hair noticing the sights, sounds and scents of the world around me. Or [...]
I’m back in North Carolina, after a year and a half in Mexico. Why? It was just time, for reasons that are a little too personal to post here. It was an amazing experience living down there. I plan to visit Tulum before too long. But for now, I’m here in the American South, settling [...]
I recently read up on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (or Pacific Trash Vortex), the giant swirling island made entirely of plastic trash which floats in the northern Pacific ocean – with an estimated size of at least the area of Texas (and some say much larger). I had been aware of it before, but [...]
So today and tonight people all over the world are turning out their lights for an hour, starting at 8:30 PM local time, to show support for protecting the enviroment. I remember so well when it seemed that the only people interested in “ecology”, as we called it in 1970, were children and hippies. I [...]
It’s almost two weeks since I moved from Tulum to Playa del Carmen. Below is a map showing where they are, for anybody who doesn’t have a clear idea, or who just likes maps. A map to show where Tulum and Playa del Carmen are on the Yucatán coast, and how close we are to [...]
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” — Andrew Carnegie “If you are bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things—you don’t have enough goals.” — Lou Holtz I’m thinking about the future, [...]
I just picked up a package at the local post office, books from Amazon.com in the U.S.A. It’s not even all that expensive to ship them here – about $10 for a stack of them – and only took about two weeks. It was a little adventure actually getting my hands on them, though. First, [...]