Point… Click… Done.
Booking a trip that requires deciding on accommodations is never as easy as they make it look on television. Just click and go is make-believe. As a traveller you need…
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A Great Truth
Uncle Jeremiah recently told me that the one thing he had realized about getting older is that the future gets shorter until there is no future. He said you reach…
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Wendy employees a restaurant staff of three that usually rotate in one person shifts. The first starts promptly at 7. It’s is usually Nero or Bonnie. They serve breakfast and…
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The other day I started to write about the current state of affairs at the Playa Paraiso en Magante. Since there have been no detailed records kept by any of…
READ MOREDestination Wedding
“I will.” These words were spoken Sunday by a young couple on the beach of the Playa Magante. Well I assume that is what they said since I was…
READ MOREThompson Goes On Vacation
I did say that I wasn’t through with the travelling bear. Once again this is a work of fiction based very loosely on actual events. It is another long piece…
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As is the case for the last few years the first thing on this year’s agenda is preparing to travel. Packing my bags and getting as far away…
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Welcome to 2018. For those of you that are alive reading this, raise your hand if you never thought you would reach this day. Don’t bother raising your hand Uncle…
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Thirty years ago, Honey and I put up our first ever Family Christmas tree. We had been together for six years. We had always had decorations in our house (Honey…
READ MOREI Don’t Have To Be There To Be There
I only go to the Playa Paraiso en Magante once a year. I think about the place year round but I only put my toes in the sand for 14…
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