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Friday Night Tennis in Sugar Hill Georgia with An Old Pal

Suwanee Georgia

  My friend Harry has made a wonderful life for himself in Sugar Hill Georgia. He’s at the top of his profession in sales, and he’s surrounded by a loving family in a comfortable home. Harry and I went to prep school together in the ’70s, and it’s been four […]

Everyone Wants to Give a Discount to AARP Members, It Seems

AARP Members at the Life@50+ National event in Atlanta yesterday.

I spent yesterday walking through the convention floor meeting many people who do business with AARP members. It’s an amazing array, from telephones that display text for what someone is saying to Egypt and Panama tourism. Plus a giant booth full of cheerful tourism folks from the great state of […]

Books for Africa Sorts, Packs and Helps Educate Africans

I boarded a bus early this morning after a reviving pep talk from CBS sports guy James JB Brown, quarterback Dan Marino and Pepper Schwartz. The three stood before 700 or so volunteers at the Life@50+ National Event in Atlanta to encourage them on as they undertook many different projects […]

Flying to Atlanta Today to the AARP’s Life@50+ National Event

Books for Africa

Today I’m flying to Atlanta for a three-day conference devoted to those of us who have already reached 50 years of age. It’s the Fall 2o13 Life@50+ National Event of the AARP. You might recognize these people as voting bloc that politicians fear the most–and the people who mail you […]

A New Cafe Will Bring Life to Sleepy South Deerfield Next Week

I am so excited about our town’s newest addition….Mosaic Cafe! Ever since we had to close the GONOMAD Cafe in the center of town, I have been thinking about how much a little village needs a cafe. When Mary began taking a writing workshop at Ruth’s cafe (in the former […]

“Your Horse is Ready”

Juan Carlos leads a ride in farm fields in Ecuador.

I was relaxing after a sumptuous lunch of chicken with walnut sauce at Hosteria Hacienda Pinsaqui.  GM Alex Roman came up to the table. “Your Horse is ready,” he said. With that I walked out to the green lawn near the stables to meet my steed. Maradona is an eight-year […]

Hosteria Caballo Campana Welcomes Horse Lovers in Cuenca

Priscila Saldana d Traverso and Fernando Traverso of Hosteria Caballo Campana in Cuenca.

Our final night in Ecuador brought us out to the country, it was a welcome relief from the crowded streets and noisy bustle of Cuenca. We took a taxi out to Hosteria Caballo Campana  about 15 minutes from the center of Cuenca and were soon patting some friendly horses and […]

Cuenca Has a Trout-filled River Running Through It

Walking the narrow streets of Cuenca.

We spent the day in Cuenca, which is a very pretty city, as so many people in Quito told us. There is a trout-filled river that runs through the city, and lots of churches and houses that go back to colonial times. Along the river, green mowed lawns line the […]

Quito is Building a Subway, It Can’t Come Soon Enough!

Volcano at Mariscal Sucre airport in Quito.

Quito is an exciting city and over the past three days I’ve gotten a chance to talk to a lot of locals about what is coming up and what’s exciting here in Ecuador’s largest city.  I also got to get a feel for the place when I took a long […]

Ecuador Almost Made a Grand Bargain to Save their Rainforest

Hotelier Lazlo Karolyi

Inside Café Cultura, a boutique hotel in Quito three fires crackled in the fireplaces, as we were welcomed warmly by Lazlo Karolyi, a Hungarian immigrant who owns this and five other boutique hotels in Ecuador. He was happy have us, having sent a car to fetch us at our hotel, […]

Quito is Full of Beauty and History, and Has Earned its Distinction

A shave in the Grand Plaza, Quito

We spent the day exploring many of the best attractions of Quito, starting by driving up to the El Panecillo, the park at the top of a mountain that overlooks the historic downtown and its many houses on the hillsides. There is a metal statue of a winged Virgin Mary […]

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