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Costa Rica Motorcycle Ride Day 2/3/4

With my brown eyes carefully concealed behind dark sunglasses after a red eye flight to Costa Rica from LAX on Delta flight 1974; I now stared out of the airplane window as the pilot finally declared that we have arrived at our destination of San Jose, Costa Rica. We just knocked out 2,878 miles of […]

A Camino Story – Santiago de Compostela and the Old Woman

Suddenly up ahead, I spot this perfect image of what, if only in my mind, constitutes an old grandmotherly peasant woman. She is walking the camino route and holding onto a stick cane for some support. I assume her home is somewhere nearby and she was just visiting a neighbor. And without much fuss or […]

RIP Lucy the Chocolate Lab

…Losing Lucy. As in, “even gruff Papa now feels heartbreaking grief that the twelve year old family dog has died.” Not one but, two handwritten signs are now tacked up on large sycamore trees within a tenth of a mile of each other. I first saw the labs for sale signs on a lonesome country […]

Exploring Solitude and Loneliness

I know nothing with any certainty but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” -Vincent Van Gogh Several of us early risers just witnessed the sun rise, yet again from the 100+ degrees geothermal heated springs water that originated, somewhere deep within the Earth’s interior.… it’s not even anywhere near six a.m. and the […]