Back in Dallas, I was into my “all hotels are the same in the dark when you are asleep” rant. This has never had any effect on my wife. To me, it’s better to sleep cheap. The hotels she picks are disgustingly over-priced restaurants where…
As usual, the trains run late in Italy, so we had about an hour and a half to wait in the railway station. My moment of peace came when my wife and eldest daughter brought me a doppio and went off in search of breakfast….
Being cheap has backfired on me a couple of times when my family has left me to deal with all of their luggage. The worst experience came after a fateful night in the Children’s Hospital in Florence, Italy. I wasn’t the one that was ill, but rather it was my youngest daughter who, in spite of my suggestions to drink more water, became dehydrated from the Mediterranean heat and sun. The heat had a disastrous effect on her digestive system, which at the time was swollen with cheap tourist pizza. The more she ate, the less she digested. The situation came to a head the evening before we were scheduled to catch a train to Rome.
We were on our way out of Cabos. After a week of fast-food abstinence, the airport is the first outpost of food-court civilization. The airport in is full of the normal, strip mall fare: Cinnabun, Burger King, Filet-O-Chicken, and Pizza Hut: calories, carbs, fat and…
There she blows!!! We spent the first couple of hours moving up and down the coast snacking on guacamole and chips. We hadn’t seen a single whale and things didn’t look good. “We probably won’t see any whales today,” my daughter said. A minute later…
Back on the Boat, again Around ten o’clock we packed ourselves up and headed down to the marina in Cabo San Lucas. If San José is peaceful, calm and relaxing, Cabo San Lucas is its evil twin. The place is a haven to tax-dodging rock-n-rollers…
“I don’t want to bother you much with what happened to me personally,” he began, showing in his remark the weakness of many tellers of tales who seem so often unaware of what the audience would best like to hear…” Where did that come from?…
I felt an episode coming on.
After a night of tossing and turning, we woke up to the sound of birds chirping on the verandah. It was too early and they were too damn loud. The lights off the Pacific shined brightly, lighting up the entire room. I tried several times…
My vacation goal was to forget what day it was: live outside the calendar and off the clock. It’s marvelous if I can pull it off. However, it entails a whole new level of letting go, of not caring or worrying about what has happened…
Ladies and Gentleman, we apologize for that lenghty digression on the sexual proclivities of Osama Bin Laden and West Texas farmhands. The author, upon reading that a fatwa by fifteen mullahs throughout the Islamic world, and a lynch mob has been assembled in Denton, has…
The Last Temptation of Osama Bin Laden Day V This is the final installment of the special report from the Intercontinental Radio News. At 10:49 am, an un-named official in Washington confirmed that terrorist Osama Bin Laden had finally cracked under interrogation. Despite the flagrant…
Day IV This is a continuing special report from the Intercontinental Radio News. At forty-one minutes before eleven o’clock, central time, an un-named official in Washington confirmed that terrorist Osama Bin Laden was entering his fourth day of interrogation at the Supermax facility in Colorado….