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The days of 2014 are almost gone. As each day concludes, it flies off the calendar like a free bird. What started as a novel is now looking like a memo. Today, I climb a trail that runs in open space in the Albuquerque foothills where we hiked as kids....
Pompano Beach/Florida Working class beach
Fort Lauderdale is to Pompano Beach as Cadillac is to Ford. Fort Lauderdale has location, money, reputation, retirees. The boulevards are a little bigger, the canals a little deeper, the yachts a little bigger, the bling a little brighter, the...
Chocolate Mousse night snacks
According to Ruth, we are in a Mob Bar. Everyone in the place is well dressed and it is questionable whether I should be let inside with Levis, a nice dress shirt, hiking shoes and uncombed hair. South Florida is a place with comfortable weather this...
Florida/ A Fountain of Youth Coral Springs- The Walk
Florida is close to being underwater. It is incredibly flat, incredibly wet, incredibly dense with vegetation, increasingly populated by people coming to paradise to restart lives, escape boredom, find wealth and prosperity, or just escape the...
Back in the U.S.S.A. La Quinta Hotel room, Coral Springs
In a La Quinta hotel room in Coral Springs, Florida I am distracted with television, something I haven't been distracted by in over a month on the road. On TV is a show called "The Basement Tapes," about long lost recordings by Bob Dylan and friends...
Story Hour In the neighborhood /Hotel Aranjuez/ San Jose, Costa Rica
Towards the end of any visit, many travelers sort through high points, low points, things that didn't work out, things that went well. If you keep a journal, write a blog, take photos, or go with someone, you have a way to remember what you saw,did,...
Hemingway Inn/ San Jose, Costa Rica Barrio Amon
In walks, I see other places I might like to stay in San Jose, Costa Rica. This Inn has been passed before and always merits a second glance. From the outside, it appears Hemingway really might have resided in one of the upstairs rooms and composed at a...
Rocking and Rolling The Earth shakes
Tourist season is blooming and booming. Tour companies pack avid nature lovers into Costa Rica's National Parks, visit rain forests, hike deep into volcanic arenas, provide vivid sights for photographers, bird watchers and naturalists. You can do zip...
Rainbow outside Hotel Aranjuez/San Jose No one out except those who got up early
This rainbow is out early. It is Sunday and two tourists with big cameras are walking in the middle of the street ahead of me with lens in the shooting position, talking French. This rainbow is beginning to lose its colors but you can still...
National Museum, San Jose Jail exhibit
The Costa Rican National Museum is not world winning architecture. It is a renovated Spanish fort, and, for that reason, has little frills. Inside you see thick walls, peer through lookout holes in towers, pass through heavy wooden doors with huge...
San Jose, National Theatre Tour Points of interest
Checklist traveling has advantages. You go to guidebooks, visit sites and attractions, book tours with an English speaking guide, get familiar with places deemed newsworthy by those in the know. You see five to seven points of interest, stop and...
Tour Day at Hotel Aranjuez Just waiting for the bus
Half of the world is in winter with temps in the teens, or worse. Here, it is seventies with humidity but the sun shines more often than it hides. Jose, at the front desk, says it is busy in San Jose most of the year and his hotel has more visitors from...
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