Getting Around
End of the Road Heading back to the U.S.S.A.
Every journey has an end. The Mazatlan aeropuerto is small. U.S. Airways charges twice as much for a ticket as they should and the fact the airplane is only half full going down and three quarter full returning tells volumes about the state of tourism in...
Coconuts and Beach/Stone Island Taking a tour break
Our tour boat docks, by a grouping of mangroves,and we disembark into a thatched eating area where a local family will serve us lunch in a few hours. While they prepare our tour's meal, we are taken for a look at this island's coconut farm, watch Polo...
Polo and Juanito Friends
As our tour boat moves slowly through the water, paralleling Stone Island, we see mangroves form a wall to our east. We leave the marina and head north past large shrimp boats, tuna ships with miles of net piled on their decks, one of the largest fish...
Jungle Tour Mazatlan Off on an expedition
Back in the day, after school, our tribe would gather around the new black and white television in the family room and watch TV serials. There was Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, the Little Rascals, Gene Autry, the Three Stooges, and Tarzan. One of the...
Night Dolphins/On the Malecon Sunday night in Mazatlan
On a tip from Pat, at seven thirty this evening, Alan and I pile into a pulmonia and tell the driver - "Dolphina's por favor ..." We are taken, for fifty pesos, to distant communication towers rising into the sky to the south of us. During the daytime...
Jack Kerouac in Mazatlan On the road
Back in the 1950's, after WW2, most people headed home to raise families. Men were tired of shooting bullets and women were tired of making them. Instead of killing humanity the focus became re-populating humanity. An era of big bands was...
Surprise Arizona at Sunset Dusk
At dusk, clouds congregate on the horizon and cars exit Highway 303 at Bell Rd. to go to Surprise, Arizona. It is quitting time for those who still have a job to go too. In Surprise, brother Alan and I are staying at the Happy Trails Resort but it could...
In the Air to Mexico Bright and early
Interstate 10 from Surprise to the Phoenix airport is slowed to six miles per hour at seven in the morning. Our clock is ticking and our plane departure time is absolute. Alan and I exit the freeway and head south to Buckhorn Avenue at 51st street, then...
L.A. Car Repairs Check maintenance light blues
Your chariot has to be tuned up to keep you in the Los Angeles race. You aren't going to get anywhere in this L.A. burg without a good set of wheels, a team of rested and well fed horses, and enough time to get where you are going through a maze of...
Tour Day at Hotel Aranjuez Just waiting for the bus
Half of the world is in winter with temps in the teens, or worse. Here, it is seventies with humidity but the sun shines more often than it hides. Jose, at the front desk, says it is busy in San Jose most of the year and his hotel has more visitors from...
In Transit Flying over the Andes
Being in transition is being a traveler. You have one suitcase with clothes and an extra pair of walking shoes in the cargo hold. You have a carry on bag in the overhead with computer stuff, headphones, extra pens and paper, schedules, an umbrella,...
Bus Home from the Termas The team is two
City buses in Uruguay feature a team. There is a driver who keeps the bus on the road, makes stops, stays out of accidents, and gets people on and off the transport safely. There is a conductor who collects fares, checks passes, smooths feelings, answers...
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