Current features, travel adventures, and whatever interesting stuff I find on the net or in life.
Listed are the posts for December 2007.
Good-bye 2007 (does anyone else notice that could read Good-bye to 007 [double oh seven]? Is this a sign of James Bond’s future?) and hello 2008. It was a good year – I spent more than half of it in Costa Rica. But this year will be even better, as I’ll spend the majority of [...]
Well, I did it – after reading dozens of reviews (both good and bad), and thinking about how convenient it would be to have 200 books hidden in a portable device, I bit the bullet and bought Amazon Kindle. Unfortunately, it’s on backorder with no delivery estimate, so I don’t even know if I’ll get [...]
I lived in Casablanca, Morocco for exactly 2½ years, from September 2000 to March 2003. My long-time fiancé was teaching English, and I was already a full-time freelancer. After a year, we went up to Gibraltar to get married, in large part because I had to keep leaving the country to renew my visa every [...]
This is a really interesting essay about how vegans are often viewed as extremists, when in fact it’s meat that is obtained via extreme methods. If you’re a vegetarian-phobe, this article will just annoy you, but it’s interesting reading for anyone with vegetarian tendencies: Veganism Is Not Extreme
We’ve been living on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica for 7 months now – enough to experience both the rainy (or green) season and the dry season. We arrived in mid-May, and from then until mid-August the weather was perfect: 75-80 degrees, with a few hours of rain at least 3 or 4 times [...]
I guess this is old news, but somehow it completely passed me by. 40% of the world’s oceans is covered in garbage – primarily plastic – concentrated in 5 enormous gyres, or vortexes. I can’t even wrap my head around the staggering amount of garbage this represents. There’s a stretch of land between Casablanca and [...]
This book was published in 2006, but I only just got around to reading it, and the only reason I bought it in the first place was that I noticed it on a friend’s bookshelf and liked the cover. I’m amazed that I never heard anyone talking about it, and no one ever recommended it [...]
