On Mexico’s Pacific coast, a banquet of sounds wafts forth all day and all night. At bedtime, it was a few booms, as loud as  a cannon but we assume instead, leftover New Years fireworks blasting from an unseen beach detonation location. In the earliest part of the morning, before […]

How are you getting across?   Whenever we look out across the river Horcones that’s the decision that has to be made. There are several choices: we could wade across, (but we’re not sure yet how deep it is!) or we could sit in a little dingy and have a […]

We are flying tomorrow at an insanely ridiculous hour…let’s just say that by the time you reach for a cup of coffee, we will have already been in the air a few hours bearing down on Dallas. Then we will fly to Puerto Vallarta and by 1:30 pm we should […]

Japanese food, like things in Japan,  is usually a bit more expensive than other lunch choices.   Yesterday we parked ourselves in downtown Amherst and discovered what you get for this slightly higher price. It turned out to be a good value at Arigato Sushi and Hibachi, at the top […]

  January is coming at us, like a comet that we can’t stop. I already feel that familiar dread that I once felt as a young salesman, worried about how we will all make it through the year’s toughest, bleakest month. But we always did.  I worked in the late ’70s at […]