by admin | Feb 24, 2012 |
I said I’d never do it but I did. I watched another episode of the long running political comedy called The GOP Primary Debates-2012. I can’t explain why I did it. There were some perfectly good basketball games on as well as some reruns of NCIS that I had only seen three or four times. I guess it must have been the Icarus effect. I won’t insult your intelligence by retelling the story of hubris and arrogance that led Icarus….suffice it to say, I couldn’t help myself. I knew I was going to have a problem with this one though because the field is now reduced to four, which means that each of them would have more time to talk. I don’t mind listening...
by admin | Jan 22, 2012 |
Our cruise on the Amazon in Peru from which we recently returned (see Los Ribiernos 12 Mar 2012) falls generally in the category of adventure/eco-travel. There are many sub-categories as well, but suffice it to say that we tend to opt for the segment which is long on luxury and somewhat shorter on adventure with a nod to the ecological wonders of the world. We’ve done Antarctica, and our only real adventure was when I had level five seasickness while we were navigating the Drake Passage, and our time on the Yangtze river was punctuated only by our choice of whether to have one or two cocktails before dinner. We’ve done the safari thing in South...