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.

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,

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

— 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!

The following guest post is shared with us by Meg Pier.  I met Meg online, which is where I meet most of the people I introduce you to, and through our online conversations we have discovered we follow some of the same paths in our lives.