Category Archives: Family
Útila revisited
As I write this, we are in Santa Ana, El Salvador, waiting while yet another mechanic diagnoses yet another problem with Rocinante. I’m thinking we should, perhaps, have dubbed the car “Man-o’-War” or “Bucephalos” – a name that would have … Continue reading
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Please Pass the Lotus
Ed. note: Although post topics have been accumulating, and are waiting in the queue for human attention, this post concerns today, right now. We’ll get back to the others presently. Elizabeth’s folks have a place in the Upper Peninsula. Cross … Continue reading
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Rocinante’s Repairs or Restoring the Timeline
We seem to have gotten a little out of synch here. My description of Joe’s Mud Bath concerned events that actually preceded by a good week those described in Elizabeth’s comments on Christmas in Ciudád Guatemala. So in the interest … Continue reading
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Further on down the road
When we last left our heroes, they were coasting into Salamá, after a prolonged hot and dusty drive through the mountains. The next morning, we rose at our usual leisurely hour, and began an easy drive into Cobán, the stepping-off … Continue reading
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Volcán Pacaya
While still in Antigua, we celebrated the end of our first week of school by getting up at 5:00 a.m to climb a volcano. It was the third time in the past month that we found ourselves up, dressed, and … Continue reading
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One of those moments
In December 1972 I took a train trip from Windsor to Montreal. A couple friends were just finishing up their first semester at McGill University, and the whole gang was descending upon them for an end-of-the-year party. The train trip … Continue reading
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Our Sidecar
Here’s our junior associate. Read his account of our travels at Sidecar.
Elizabeth
Henry