When you can’t sit for more than a few minutes at a time and you are cruising at 30,000 feet somewhere between Iceland and Greenland, heading for San Francisco, your near-term future is not real rosy. People get tired of your narrow-aisle strolls. You become bored with the cool onboard gadgets within your first five […]
We first noticed them in a dust cloud that swirled along a monstrous alluvial fan. Like Las Vegas illusionists coming through dry-ice mist, they came from within the whirlwind, materializing out of nowhere. Rather than sporting circus suits and magician faces, these two Andean campesinos wore dirty, torn pants, wiped sand from their eyes, and […]
There were 35 of us: nine families with a total of 19 kids, from 20 years old down to nine, living in three vacation homes for a week in Costa Rica. This was our third annual trip with multiple families coming together in an adventurous place. Each year this great group of friends gets a […]