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Casa Iguana GuesthouseCorn Islands, Nicaragua 06/25/08
Big Corn HarborCorn Islands, Nicaragua 06/25/08
Big Corn HarborCorn Islands, Nicaragua 06/25/08
Big Corn HarborCorn Islands, Nicaragua 06/25/08
Big Corn HarborCorn Islands, Nicaragua 06/25/08
Big Corn HarborCorn Islands, Nicaragua 06/25/08
Quick Thought: 06/24/08
Got married, back in Nicaragua for the honeymoon…
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Corrinne and I were married last Saturday, June 21. Our wedding was pretty informal — the ceremony and after-party were in our backyard — and while we may have skipped on some conventional wedding things, hopefully everyone had as much …
Quick Thought: 06/19/08
Note to self: You just can’t mix beer and wine like you could when you were twenty-five.
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Quick Thought: 06/18/08
Dinner with the soon-to-be inlaws and my parents went surprisingly well.
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This is about the thinnest thread I’ve ever heard of, but World Hum recently printed a piece called 10 Wanderlust-Inducing Summer Concerts. The idea being that the music is supposed to transport you somehow… like you hear the songs and …
Topics: Music, Travel
Steven Colbert has a hilarious take on one way the airline industry could deal with increased fuel costs, charge passengers by the pound — “just like ground round.” As Colbert puts it, “you know, who better to dish out the …
Topics: Humor, Travel
That’s the title of a list over on ForeignPolicy.com. I know, sounds like a thrilling site doesn’t it? Don’t worry, I made the trip over to Foreign Policy and here’s the list (which is almost entirely wrong): Mount Kumgang North …
Topics: Politics, Travel
The answer is of course, yes and no. There was an interesting article, and subsequent discussion in the comments, over at the Times Online this weekend, in which a number of prominent British travel writers lamented the internet’s influence on …
Topics: Technology, Travel
Quick Thought: 06/08/08
Holy crap. 102 degrees in June? It’s gonna be an ugly summer. Good thing we’re headed down to the equator where it’s cooler.
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In Love With a View: Vagabonds,
R…
06/07/08
Tim Patterson, editor of MatadorTrips.com, recently published an article entitled How To Travel The World For Free (Seriously). There are some good tips in the article, even for the seasoned travel vet. But what’s far more fascinating is the response …
CloverhurstAthens, Georgia • Topics: Politics, Travel
Quick Thought: 06/05/08
@howards- Yeah RSS feeds on Webmonkey and the blog are a bit shaky right now. The techs say a fix is coming though so hopefully…
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Recent Writings
  • Thursday
    July 3, 2008

    Tiny Cities Made of Ash The bells are a constant cacophony, not the rhythmic ringing out of the hours or tolling from mass that the human mind seems …
  • Monday
    June 30, 2008

    You Can't Go Home Again The wind became constant on the second day, changing from the occasional gust that would precede an hour or two of torrential rains, …
  • Thursday
    June 26, 2008

    Returning Again — Back on Little Corn Island This is a first — going back to somewhere I’ve already been. Generally speaking, the world seems so huge and so full of …
  • Saturday
    June 7, 2008

    In Love With a View: Vagabonds,
    Responsibilty and Living Well
    Tim Patterson, editor of MatadorTrips.com, recently published an article entitled How To Travel The World For Free (Seriously). There are some good tips …
Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers -- it sounds like something McSweeney's would print, but no, it's The New Yorker. And unlike most New Yorker pieces this one ...
"Those who have ever received a case of Orchidaceæ from the Tropics, know full well that the opening of it is attended with the most ...
Nice Javascript library to cross fade any series of elements in a container element. This one uses JQuery and has by far the best browser ...
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
cover image for Ficciones My first hands on with Borges... Absolutely amazing. So far beyond what I've been reading lately (mainly non-fiction and some late 20th century authors). As with Faulkner, I find it shocking that I was given an undergraduate degree in English without having read Borges. That simply should not be allowed. Everything I was expecting and so much more. If, like me, you know Borges through his myth rather than his words, this is a fine place to start. And rest assured, the myths are nothing next to the real thing. more »