I drove the S&M Motel through the narrow, often challenging streets of Europe for 9 months without a single traffic incident, so perhaps I was overdue. In Alamogordo, New Mexico, after spending the morning at the New Mexico Museum of Space History, it was my time. Here is the statement Continue Reading
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I let my guard down for just a second…
I was looking forward to seeing Athens again. I was here for 1 day only when I was 17 years old, a stop on a whirlwind educational trip to the Mediterranean that I took with my school in Grade 11. Diane and I got up early and drove from Delphi, Continue Reading
Vignette Regret
Today, you get a $60 blog posting. Others may give you a $20 posting, or perhaps even a $30 posting, but I give you a full $60 posting. I’m willing to suffer for my art. How can I be sure what it’s worth? Read on. We were camped at the Continue Reading
G-20 Summit in Cannes
We arrived in Cannes 2 days before the 2011 G-20 Cannes Summit was scheduled to begin. The G-20 is a group of finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 major economies (currently 19 countries plus the European Union) which has been in existence since 1999. The G-20 was proposed Continue Reading
The Meter Man
One of the challenges with traveling in India is getting the taxi drivers to use their meters. Like in most major cities of the world, meters are installed in all taxis to fairly calculate the fare, including factors like distance, wait time, time of day, etc. The rates are set Continue Reading