Posted in Adventure, Baja, air travel, personal essay, tagged B-17, Nine-O-Nine, Catch-22, Wings of Freedom, Zohan, Dr. Strangelove on June 8, 2008 | No Comments »
The title is not exactly a Catch-22, but it may answer some questions.
BREAKING NEWS: While our lives may sometimes seem linear, they are probably a lot more circular than we often think.
Or maybe to paraphrase an oft-repeated cliché, “What goes around…goes around some more.”
Call it part of the galactic interconnectedness of cosmic interrelated reality, [...]
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Will someone please stop the ride…I want to get off.
Or at least slow it down so I can read the signs.
On our last trip to southern Baja we really enjoyed getting out on the Sea of Cortez first thing in the morning when the water was like glass and you could make out the fish [...]
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Tequila and I are no longer on speaking terms.
Haven’t been for quite some time now and I don’t see us making up for a long, long time–if ever.
The culmination of my affair with the green-labeled bottle is too many years ago to remember and too few to have forgotten.
What is it about tequila that for [...]
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This is a story about the kindness of strangers.
Don George put together a wonderful compilation of stories from some of the best travel writers on the planet.
The book, aptly titled, The Kindness of Strangers, is about,
“A timely collection of inspiring tales…explores the unexpected human connections that so often transform the experience of travel, and celebrates [...]
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As an official travel writer wannabe and sole author, editor, typesetter, coffee go-getter, and drink mixologist of this blog site, I had a dilemma when it came to creating an original name.
After being summarily rejected for every clever, clichéd, and catchy nom de plume, related to my desired genre that I could come up with–while [...]
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File this one in Sunday cooking tips.
One that might save your life (in where you only wish you could die).
While you are preparing for that great Mexican feast for later today–you do have the cervazas chilling, right?–and you are just about ready to do all your slicing and dicing for that great homemade pico de [...]
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Just when you think things are going swimmingly simple, something will come along and complicate your life.
Recently, I spent three weeks enjoying the East Cape of southern Baja.
Without a doubt the most spectacular single day was the one where I ventured on a dive boat out of Buena Vista in Baja Sur, which is located between Cabo [...]
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I have just returned from Los Barriles, via the airport that services Cabo San Lucas and southern Baja; it is very late–or early, depending on which shift you work–but I feel an urge to get something out on what may be a run on one particular market: silicone (not to be confused with a previous run on [...]
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The last full day of a vacation is typically not much of a vacation.
Packing the bags to go home is often a struggle to find room for the same stuff that you brought with you, which somehow seems to have magically expanded in volume. Part of this apparent proliferation of possessions may be due [...]
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I rarely eat in so-called five star restaurants so I can honestly say that I have no idea what criteria are utilized.
Six of us recently enjoyed dinner at a “restaurant” in the small Baja Sur town of Buena Vista that I would personally rate as a “10″–which I am not sure how relates to the [...]
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