One of my goals is to release a message in a bottle that is found at least 1,000 miles from its place of release. Today, I released a stoppered glass salsa bottle that I prepared from home in California and that I had taken with me to Maui, Hawaii. From Quicksilver, the boat we took [...]
We drove the Road to Hana today. One of Maui’s most hyped-up activities is a bit over-hyped. The fact that the road itself is so easily traversed, not the unpaved and potholed wreck it once was, makes the journey much more mundane and not dissimilar to the rest of Maui. Some of the most northern [...]
Word had already spread before we even left the island. I guess it’s OK to talk about it since the cat is already out of the bag — so to speak. I admit it. I participated.
The Travel Channel’s World’s Best program describes Little Beach as “Maui’s unofficial clothing-optional beach” and rates it as Number 10 [...]
The alarm clock on the bedside table woke up, issuing forth soft Hawaiian music, soothing at most hours but not at 1:00 a.m. Surprisingly, we’d chosen to have our tropical sleep interrupted at that early hour; the bus from Mountain Riders was due to arrive 45 minutes later to take us to their base camp [...]
I’m actually a bit nervous about flying out to Maui tonight. Not about the flight itself or the maximum distance of 1,000 miles from any land. It’s the fact that I’ve been hired by a friend to shoot her wedding, and it’s been a loooong time since I’ve done any wedding work, let alone any [...]
As of this Sunday, RR… will have been up and around for two and a half years, a quarter of my goal achieved to keep some form of journal for ten years. This just happens to be an on-line version that everyone with a browser has access to. A lot has transpired since its inception, [...]
But, as Douglas Adams so eloquently put in his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, what precisely is the question?
Here are some possibilities (not in the form of a question):
according to a Princeton University website, the definition of 42 is “being two more than forty” — I kid you not.
wikipedia describes 42 as “the natural [...]
Last night was Back to School Night at Sterling’s school. Everything went as it should, until near the tailend of the night when the teacher asked to speak to Sterling’s parents.
Uh, oh!
Considering all the possibilities that had already been floating around my mind AND knowing what a quiet and shy little boy Sterling is (NOT!), [...]
In the same week that a large six-month-old accounting error finally sneaks up on me and bites me in the ášš, causing me to use overdraft protection on two vital checks — the incredibly tight cash flow problem brought on in the first place by a very slow-paying client who delayed a very important check [...]
Book number six of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series, titled Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince begins:
He looked rather like an old lion. There were streaks of grey in his mane of tawny hair and his bushy eyebrows; he had keen yellowish eyes behind a pair of wire-rimmed spectacles and a certain rangy, loping [...]
