Category: Travel

Synchronicity, Daniel Pinchbeck and SF Signal 1

Synchronicity, Daniel Pinchbeck and SF Signal

From Wikipedia: Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally unrelated. In order to be Synchronous, the events must be related to one...

Rugby World Cup 3rd Weekend 0

Rugby World Cup 3rd Weekend

Quarter final pairings get closer, but five matches next weekend will decide who moves to the knockout round! With five mostly blowout matches and one surprisingly close one with South Africa besting Tonga only...

Rugby World Cup 2nd weekend 1

Rugby World Cup 2nd weekend

See my weekend one post here. New Zealand looked everything the favorite as they beat Portugal 108-13, even with many second tier players playing and some out of position. Neither Jonny Wilkinson nor his...

Libraries at Curious Expeditions 0

Libraries at Curious Expeditions

I will admit again. I love books, rugby, martial arts, beautiful women (one in particular), and books. Call me a geek, but if you are like me and fellow book-a-holic JohnD , you owe...

Rugby World Cup 1st weekend 6

Rugby World Cup 1st weekend

While I, like most Americans, am excited about the NFL season (especially with the hometown Houston Texans looking like a team to cheer for for a change!), I am more enthralled with watching the...

Maps 0

Maps

I’m a guy; I like maps. History books, science fiction with complex worlds or battles, all should (and many do) have excellent detailed maps. I’m the geek who refers back to the maps while...

book signing October 20 at Trinity University Alumni week 2

book signing October 20 at Trinity University Alumni week

Last year I was invited to be a part of the Trinity University Alumni Book Signing that occurs during alumni week. I have been invited back again this year; the event is October 20...

I should be able to run a 5K, shouldn’t I??? 0

I should be able to run a 5K, shouldn’t I???

My industrious wife formed a team to walk in the Komen Race for the Cure in Houston October 6. The team name is “Komen Get It”….catchy, eh? Somehow (as usually happens) I got talked...

Ice Road Truckers – The Final Episode 3

Ice Road Truckers – The Final Episode

I’m not sure what it was about this short (10 episode) series that entertained my family. It could have been any combination of: a locale, the Northwest Territories, that most of us have never...

Bu, thanks for the memories 0

Bu, thanks for the memories

Bu, the 39-year old Rhino at the Houston Zoo, died of old age yesterday. My family and I have seen a lot of Bu over the years, through many trips to the Houston Zoo,...