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You Can't Go Home Again 06/30/08: The wind became constant on the second day, changing from the occasional gust that would precede an hour or two of torrential rains, to a steady 20-25 knot blow as if Zephuros himself were paying a visit to the island. …; Casa Iguana Guesthouse – Little Corn Island, Nicaragua • Topics: Goodbyes, Islands, Weather
Returning Again — Back on Little Corn Island 06/26/08: This is a first — going back to somewhere I’ve already been. Generally speaking, the world seems so huge and so full of amazing destinations that repeating one never struck me as a judicious use of my short allotment of …; Casa Iguana Guesthouse – Little Corn Island, Nicaragua • Topics: Humor, Strikes, Weather
In Love With a View: Vagabonds,<br /> Responsibilty and Living Well 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 …; Cloverhurst – Athens, Georgia • Topics: Politics, Travel
Failure is My Friend 05/20/08: Okay, let’s face it. The Photo of Day project has fallen apart. I have failed. Oh well. It was fun while it was fun and then it was no longer fun so I stopped doing it. I have a bunch …; Cloverhurst – Athens, Georgia • Topics: Failure 5 comments on Failure is My Friend
Little Island in the Sun 04/05/08: From San Juan Del Sur we caught a cab back to Rivas (much faster driver this time), then a bus to Managua, switched to another bus out to the airport, then hopped a plane to Bluefields and then on to …; Carlito's Sunrise Paradise Guesthouse – Little Corn Island, Nicaragua • Topics: Beach, Nicaragua
Return to the Sea 04/02/08: Rivas was hot, dusty and filled with touts clamoring to shove you a cab bound for just about anywhere but Rivas itself. Not being the sort of tourists that like to disappoint a determined tout, we ended up in one …; San Juan Del Sur – San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua • Topics: Beach, Nicaragua, Sunsets
Ring The Bells 03/30/08: We landed in Managua about eight in the evening, walked outside the airport and smoked a cigarette (I know, terrible, I started smoking again), surveying the taxi drivers all clamoring for jacked up fares from the new arrivals. Eventually we …; Parque Colon – Granada, Nicaragua • Topics: Architecture, Church, Granada, Nicaragua
Once Upon a School 03/18/08: Dave Eggers gave a fantastic talk at this year’s TED conference about his 826 Valencia project, an after-school reading/writing program, which, as you may recall, my friend Lee volunteers at. But the real point of Eggers’ talk was to show …; Cloverhurst – Athens, Georgia • Topics: Charity, Children
A Lost Theory 01/31/08: Since tonight is the season premiere of Lost I’d like offer a small theory I haven’t seen elsewhere. As fans of the show know, Lost is full of mysteries and one of the mysteries is who is on the boat …; Cloverhurst – Athens, Georgia • Topics: Lost, Television, Theories
New Year's Day 01/01/08: I have at various times been accused of harboring a certain amount of cynicism (or realism, depending on the point of view of the person leveling such accusations), something I continue to deny. However, there are a few notable moments …; Cloverhurst – Athens, Georgia • Topics: Holidays, Photos 129 comments on New Year's Day
Merry Christmas 12/25/07: Merry Christmas my internet friends and a happy holiday season to those that celebrate other holidays. I’m spending my Christmas in a place where people string lights around Saguaro cacti, which somehow doesn’t put me in much of a Christmas …; foothills condo – Tucson, Arizona • Topics: Holidays 2 comments on Merry Christmas
Fall 11/14/07: The trees are in full technicolor swing. The land is slowly dying, and not just because it’s Fall [1], we’re also in the middle of a prolonged drought — this year being one of the worst — but this year …; Cloverhurst – Athens, Georgia • Topics: Autumn, Fall, Nature
On The Other Ocean 07/23/07: Consider for a moment if your house were tilted 30 degrees to the left. Imagine how this would complicate seemingly ordinary activities — like say walking. Now throw in a bouncing motion that lifts the floor five or six feet …; White's Cove – Catalina Island, California • Topics: Nature, Sailing
Being There 06/17/07: Myrtle Beach does not exist. Myrtle Beach is in fact a copy of a place that does not exist. Nearly everything in Myrtle Beach is a paltry derivative of some original form. For instance, most of the country has golf …; Heather's House – Brooklyn, New York • Topics: Airports, Americans, Beach, Philosophy, Tourism, Travel
Sailing Through 06/14/07: It was the middle of the afternoon, we having settled in to watch a bit of the Blues Brothers — afternoon films being my favorite form of procrastination — when, just after Belushi remarks that the modern American mall “has …; Corrinne's Apartment – Charleston, South Carolina • Topics: Beach, Charleston, Clouds, Sailing, Storms 2 comments on Sailing Through
Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove 03/01/07: Earlier today I was driving up Santa Monica Blvd, stuck in traffic actually, more like parked on Santa Monica Blvd, staring up a very strange cloud that had been hanging over the west side all afternoon looking a bit like …; Dover Drive – Newport Beach, California • Topics: Clouds, Friends, Goodbyes 1 comment on Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove
Everything All The Time 02/03/07: “We’ll collect the moments one by oneI guess that’s how the future’s done” — Leslie Fiest A while back a friend of mine who I hadn’t spoken to in quite a while rang me up. At some point we got …; Dover Drive – Newport Beach, California • Topics: Beauty, Culture, Friends, Memory, Reflecting 4 comments on Everything All The Time
Catologue Raisonne 01/31/07: Jeffrey Toobin, a legal columnist over at the New Yorker, has written a piece about Google’s book scanning project and the legal challenges it faces. In a nutshell, two lawsuits are threatening the Google Book Search project, one is from …; Dover Drive – Newport Beach, California • Topics: Books, Copyright, Writing
Terminal part two 01/13/07: The desert is a hot wind at the gas station, something passing through and to be passed through, or a sunny retreat from cold wind billowing off northern lakes or an endless playground of sunshine, golf and hotel pools. Some …; Dover Drive – Newport Beach, California • Topics: Deserts, Motion, Mountains, River, Sand, Sunsets
The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions 01/11/07: “And so it is that we, as men, do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall …; Dover Drive – Newport Beach, California • Topics: Authors, Beauty, Culture, Eulogy, Mysticism, Philosophy