Jarachik, one of the restaurants/hotels in town is owned by a father and son team from Holland. This week Hank, the father, died of heart failure. It was a big shock to such a little community, and he will be…
It’s just over one year since I’ve worked full time, and I thought it would be fun to make a bunch of lists of what I’ve done in that year. Distance About 33000 miles by airplane, visiting 14 airports Around…
Apple released the Mighty Mouse today. Leave it to Apple to “innovate” themselves into making a zero button, four button mouse. Yes, they added some space-age alien technology to sense your “clicking” through the shell so that there would BE…
Llegué con securidad en San Pedro ayer por la noche. Mi viaje de San Cristobal a San Pedro era fácil. Me plazco a volver a San Pedro. Es aún más bonito en invierno que verano. No hay mucho lluvio ya,…
Well, it turns out things don’t go like you planned when you travel. Who knew? I was feeling pretty smug in Cancun, with my ticket bought, plenty of time to go around and get dinner, then shop for snacks on…
Well, traveling with AirTech was a breeze, except for the having 12 different backup plans part. I simply showed up at the airport 2 hours early (no big deal for an international flight) and the nice lady behind the counter…
Tomorrow morning, I am going to attempt to board a Suntrips flight to Cancun using AirTech.com’s standby travel system. So, the adventure begins. From Cancun, I will take an overnight bus to San Cristobal de las Casas. There, I’ll find…
MSF has a culture of civil (and not so civil) disagreement among it’s volunteers, executives, sections, field offices, and so on. To me, this shows that it is a vibrant community of passionate people. The only times in my career…
I might have just gone too far in my quest to learn ever more about MSF. I came across this article (107 kb PDF). It has interesting details about the internal struggles in MSF’s history and in it’s current operations.…
There’s a fun virtual hide and go seek game that tests your knowledge of geographic trivia. It’s called GoogleEarthing. I won puzzle #12 by recognizing Tombouctou, Mali. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the picture.…