Category: Travel
bookrev: Big Red Tequila by Rick Riordan
Big Red Tequila is the first in a series of Tres Navarre novels, a semi-private investigator set in my home town of San Antonio. I’ve always enjoyed novels set in locations where I’ve been,...
More Vegas: Bellagio Dancing Waters
Below, a video of the entire Bellagio Hotel Dancing Waters sequence in the daylight, with a rainbow no less, from our last trip. Not as good as the Elton John concert, but a classic...
tunerev: The Red Piano by Elton John
Last year, it was a trip with our friends Monte and Margaret (from Munich) to Oxford, England to see Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds…and a fantastic trip it was. This year, it was Vegas...
the other “me” was on the USS William M Wood
I have a very unique name. I thought I was the only one in the world. But I found out I assumed incorrectly in a very interesting way. About two years ago, I started getting...
book notes: American Shaolin by Matthew Polly
Almost every martial artist has some wayward fantasy or frequent daydream about dropping out of life and dropping into the Shaolin Temple, to emerge some undetermined time later as a well-tuned, philosophy spouting fighting...
bookrev: 2012 The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck
A research paper and personal journal covering the possibility of a world consciousness and psyche evolution on-going, and building up to the near future. Daniel Pinchbeck covers a lot of ground in this sometimes...
Supressed college memories
It really is Louis’ fault…he brought it up. He took me back to the scene of many crimes and many bar exams, the Bombay Bicycle Club (near the corner of Mulberry and St. Marys,...
bookrev: The Human, The Orchid and The Octopus by Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schiefelbein
My son is a well-read, well-informed world traveler at sixteen years old. His blank look when I told him I was reading an advanced copy of a new book by Jacques Cousteau and Susan...
Rugby World Cup – on to the Quarters
Quarterfinals are set with three excellent matches and one potential road kill; and, yes Gordon, pic of Jason White from Scotland! With some outstanding matches and a few blowouts, the pairings are set for...