Allen Saunders: Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
—Publishers Syndicate
An informative story came out of Paris, France yesterday. The staff of the Louvre Museum walked off the job in protest due to the increasing concern for visitor safety at the hands of pickpocket gangs.
I visit my gym every Monday. I tried to go every other Monday but the sheer weight of the flatbed cart almost did me in. I literally could not push it over the speed bump in the parking lot and of course when I finally did get it over, everything on the front of the cart fell off.
So there I was in the parking lot, on a blistering hot day, reloading my cart and cursing up a storm while people drove by with smirky smiles on their faces.
It was then I decided to workout every Monday and have lighter loads to deal with. It’s been a better workout. Workout? Yes, that’s right. My gym is Costco.
I have a paid membership and everything, and what other gym will sell you a giant hot dog and soda for a buck fifty? Although, I almost canceled my membership when the company switched from Coke to Pepsi. Puhleeze… Pepsi?! Ick.
Guest Post ~
Preface
The following is a story I wrote about an interesting experience I had in Flagstaff, Arizona on New Year’s Eve after a 19-day Grand Canyon rafting trip with a group of friends. Most people don’t boat the Colorado in the winter for a number of reasons,
— John Muir
We’re all about Peru right now! In my last post I interviewed Lyle, owner/operator of the GringoWasi B&B in Cusco, Peru. Lyle has generously contributed several recipes to our collection. As he says, he loves to cook and he loves to share.
I met Lyle, where else? online. We connected through Linked In when Lyle contributed his first Peruvian recipe, Lomo Saltado. Since then, Lyle (who lives in Cusco) and I have become great webpals (my made up name for penpals) and he has contributed multiple recipes to our collectioni.
When do you cross the line between being educated and paranoid, when it comes to travel smarts? Is there such a thing as being too cautious?
Just recently I shared with you our discovery of a long-forgotten blink of a town known as Hilt, just a few miles south of the California Oregon border. When I told a friend of mine about our discovery, she asked me, “Did you know there is a Buddhist Temple just beyond Hilt?” Um, no!