June 8, 2016 – A Three Person Tour… A Three Person Tour! It wound up being a three person tour – me and two 20-something sisters from the Midwest. Cheyenne Knox was from Fargo, while her slightly older sister Larissa the librarian was from Minneapolis. Our guide was Rosemary and our stunt driver was Robert. […]
June 3, 2016 – They May Take Our Lives But They’ll Never Take Our Free Day! This afternoon I committed a cardinal sin of a tourist – I forgot to take my camera with me. I went for a short 6 mile run to clear my head and shake off the cobwebs for the marathon […]
June 2, 2016 – Moais and More Moais, Oh, My! Today was the big full day tour of Rapa Nui. And no day starts better than with crème brule at breakfast! Once again boarding our minibus with Gabriel and Christian, we set off on an all-day sightseeing tour that brought us face to face with […]
June 1, 2016 (An Addendum) I’m seeing stars. And everything is blood red. I’ve just conked my head getting into the shuttle van. It feels like I should have amnesia… and that would be preferable to the throbbing pain that shoots from the tips of my hair follicles through my skull and into the very […]
June 1, 2016 The Goo Goo Dolls. Steve Perry. Pearl Jam. Air Supply. The Santiago Airport is jamming to the 70s, 80s and 90s US hits. After a delirious trip through a mood-lit Bogota airport onto my flight to Chile, I’m feeling particularly time warped. The trip started with me miscalculating the tram system at […]
Yogurt: Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made. Spaceballs-the T-shirt, Spaceballs-the Coloring Book, Spaceballs-the Lunch box, Spaceballs-the Breakfast Cereal, Spaceballs-the Flame Thrower. [turns it on, firing flames] Dink, Dink, Dink, Dink, Dink, Dink: Ooooh! Yogurt: [reacts to dinks] The kids love this one. [a dink hands him a doll that looks […]