tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58534982011-04-21T15:20:44.304-07:00[Go2]it's about going places - may arrive eventuallyrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comBlogger371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1137747070476851212006-01-20T00:51:00.000-08:002006-01-20T00:57:24.016-08:00test postThis is a test. I emailed this post to blogger to see if that feature works. I deactivated this blog in March 2005 due to blogger bugs. Maybe I'll use it again, but don't get excited now. Relax. This is only a test.richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1111017097180836382005-03-16T15:49:00.001-08:002005-03-16T15:51:37.426-08:00================= SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIAPAS (1)These are transcribed journal notes, undoubtedly full of typos and errors and ommisions._ _ _ _ _Friday 11 March 2005, San ConstantinoSan Cristobal de Las Casas (SCLC) - morning.Yesterday was a down day. We rested, walked around, rested. Early afternoon we walked into the huge, ancient Templo y Ex-Convento de Santo Domingo and the equally richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1111017094315638492005-03-16T15:49:00.000-08:002005-03-16T15:51:34.326-08:00================= SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIAPAS (1)These are transcribed journal notes, undoubtedly full of typos and errors and ommisions._ _ _ _ _Friday 11 March 2005, San ConstantinoSan Cristobal de Las Casas (SCLC) - morning.Yesterday was a down day. We rested, walked around, rested. Early afternoon we walked into the huge, ancient Templo y Ex-Convento de Santo Domingo and the equally richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1111016739769270832005-03-16T15:43:00.001-08:002005-03-16T15:45:39.776-08:00================= SAN CRISTOBAL DE Las Casas, CHIAPAS (1)These are transcribed journal notes, undoubtedly full of typos and errors and ommisions._ _ _ _ _Friday 11 March 2005, San ConstantinoSan Cristobal de Las Casas (SCLC) - morning.Yesterday was a down day. We rested, walked around, rested. Early afternoon we walked into the huge, ancient Templo y Ex-Convento de Santo Domingo and the equally richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1111016737231178772005-03-16T15:43:00.000-08:002005-03-16T15:45:37.246-08:00================= SAN CRISTOBAL DE Las Casas, CHIAPAS (1)These are transcribed journal notes, undoubtedly full of typos and errors and ommisions._ _ _ _ _Friday 11 March 2005, San ConstantinoSan Cristobal de Las Casas (SCLC) - morning.Yesterday was a down day. We rested, walked around, rested. Early afternoon we walked into the huge, ancient Templo y Ex-Convento de Santo Domingo and the equally richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1110473904448159122005-03-10T08:57:00.000-08:002005-03-10T14:26:50.283-08:00PALENQUE to SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIAPASThese are transcribed journal notes, undoubtedly full of typos and errors and ommisions._ _ _ _ _Tuesday 8 March 2005, St Juan de DiosSan Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas - evening.A fine day except for the holdup and death threat. We drove south from Palenque in uncomfortable sultry morning heat, and quickly rose into a higher, lusher, wilder, richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1110472487758886522005-03-10T08:33:00.000-08:002005-03-10T08:34:47.770-08:00HOPELCHEN, CAMPECHE to PALENQUE, CHIAPASThese are transcribed journal notes, undoubtedly full of typos and errors and ommisions._ _ _ _ _Sunday 6 March 2005, San BasilioUxmal, Yucatan - night.We crawled across from the Hopelchen bus-stop hotel to the same comedar, breakfasted well and cheap, strolled around the zocalo area for a Sunday morning look-see. Last night the voices sang, the church richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1110472340693199772005-03-10T08:26:00.000-08:002005-03-10T08:32:20.726-08:00PALENQUE, CHIAPAS to HOPELCHEN, CAMPECHEThese are transcribed journal notes, undoubtedly full of typos and errors and ommisions._ _ _ _ _Friday 4 March 2005Campeche, Campeche - nightAfter taking ironic photos of the Howard Johnson and Best Western hotels, we bid farewell to Palenque. We drove northeast through a thinning Mayan mist, retracing part of Monday's route, seeing the lush agricultural richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1109951106481978382005-03-04T07:39:00.000-08:002005-03-04T07:45:06.490-08:00In PALENQUE, CHIAPASThese are transcribed journal notes, undoubtedly full of typos and errors and ommisions._ _ _ _ _Tuesday 1 March 2005, Malaria TuesdayPalenque, Chiapas - evening.A down day, a lay-around-the-room morning, a wander-around-town afternoon, an early evening. Somewhere noonish we negotiated with the landlord a good rate for four nights, then went to town for orientation and lunch richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1109713370449329212005-03-01T13:40:00.000-08:002005-03-01T13:42:50.456-08:00The TUXTLAS, VERACRUZ to PALENQUE, CHIAPASThese are transcribed journal notes, undoubtedly full of typos and errors and ommisions, and occasional intemperate language_ _ _ _ _Sunday 27 Feb 2005Comalcalco, Tobasco - evening.In San Andres Tuxtla, the first rooms we were shown at the Hotel Figueroa had neither fan nor toilet seat. Perhaps this was a ploy to lure us into the 'best' (costliest) room richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1109713209189019742005-03-01T13:38:00.000-08:002005-03-01T13:40:09.193-08:00CHACHALACAS to the TUXTLAS, VERACRUZThese are transcribed journal notes, undoubtedly full of typos and errors and ommisions, and occasional intemperate language_ _ _ _ _Friday 25 Feb 2005Chachalacas, Zempoala/Cempoala, Veracruz - evening.This morning we sped west up the mountain to Xalapa, 1/2 million people in the state capital of Veracruz. Elevation there is at least several thousand feet -- richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1109713077295898642005-03-01T13:36:00.000-08:002005-03-01T13:37:57.303-08:00PAPLANTLA to CHACHALACAS, VERACRUZThese are transcribed journal notes, undoubtedly full of typos and errors and ommisions._ _ _ _ _Thursday 24 Feb 2005 - Flag Day (national holiday)Chachalacas, Zempoala/Cempoala, Veracruz - morning.Yesterday we escaped Papantla after a bit of thrashing about (different highways with the same number run in various directions) and found our way to the El Tajin richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1109712951316238362005-03-01T13:33:00.000-08:002005-03-01T13:35:51.323-08:00MATEHUELA, SAN LUIS POTOSI to CHACHALACAS, VERACRUZThese are transcribed journal notes, undoubtedly full of typos and errors and ommisions._ _ _ _ _Monday 21 Feb 2005Xilitla, San Luis Potosi - evening.We dragged ourselves from our hard but adequate beds in Matehuela, showered and packed, and stepped outside to find a flat tire. Luckily the Hotel Capri is next to a Pemex station (national richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1109712699580685172005-03-01T13:29:00.000-08:002005-03-01T13:31:39.586-08:00CIUDAD JIMINEZ to MATEHUELA, SAN LUIS POTOSIThese are transcribed journal notes, undoubtedly full of typos and errors and ommisions._ _ _ _ _Saturday 19 Feb 2005Parras de la Fuente, Coahuila - evening.We escaped Ciudad Jiminez early, tired and grouchy, and rolled south across the nearly featureless plain towards the tri-cities of Gomez Palacio-Lerdo-Torreon. Many routes provide alternate cuota (richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1109712568457594972005-03-01T13:25:00.000-08:002005-03-01T13:29:28.463-08:00BISBEE, ARIZONA to CIUDAD JIMINEZ, CHIHUAHUAThese are transcribed journal notes, undoubtedly full of typos and errors and ommisions._ _ _ _ _Wednesday 16 Feb 2005, St. OnesimoBisbee, Arizona.We wanted to leave today, but didn't. As we worked the funky laundromat, an Old Mexico Hand advised us to cross at Naco, not Douglas -- much less hassle and delay, she insisted. Packing is almost finished.richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1108469351515889322005-02-15T08:05:00.000-08:002005-02-15T04:09:11.520-08:00Greetings from Bisbee, AZ:This is another day-before-we-leave update. Yup, the current fantasy this Tuesday morning is that we'll wake up tomorrow, throw the last few things into the car, and head for the border. OK, so today we must pack, and throw out perishibles, and buy insurance, and tend to various crap. Tomorrow it's a roll to Douglas-Agua Prieta, do the border paperwork (tourist cards, richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1107842562006802172005-02-07T21:59:00.000-08:002005-02-07T22:02:42.006-08:00WHAT-HO:
Monday 7 Feb 2004. We're about to embark on a rather longish driving tour from Arizona across Mexico and into Central America and back, thense to California. The basic parameters of the journey are:
* After staying in Bisbee (far-southern Arizona) for some months, we'll depart expectantly southward in mid-February 2005.
* Our next appointment is near Sacramento, California in richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1107801152677724562005-02-07T10:22:00.000-08:002005-02-07T10:32:32.676-08:00Hi:
We're almost ready to leave for another grand journey -- 5 1/2 months of car-touring across Mexico and Central America. We'll post our notes to this newsletter. I'm adding-correcting some email addresses but I may be sloppy, so if you get an invitatation email following this message, just ignore it. If you're not interested, it's easy to quit the list. But we hope you'll STAY TUNED for ourrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1089014896185234622004-07-05T01:05:00.000-07:002004-07-05T01:12:16.936-07:00WE'RE BACK, BRIEFLY
Gentle Readers:
We returned from our journey a couple weeks ago. We've been catching up since then. And in a couple more weeks we'll leave for Bisbee (and points beyond) for half a year. And then we'll maybe drive to Central America. Busy busy busy...
We haven't solved the remote / online quandry yet, which is why this update is delayed until now. But I finally got therichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1084052248373806152004-05-08T14:37:00.000-07:002004-05-08T14:43:12.530-07:00Greetings: Here are the complete journals, including the latest updates before he head for Silver City, Big Bend, Roswell etc. You can click on these links (from the index) for more journal notes than you can bear:
In which we plan the journey 15.Jan-9.Mar
In which we think we started 16-19.March
Wherein we finally Hit Da Road 30.Mar-2.Apr
Rolling from PegLeg to Prescott 3-10.April
From richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1083888298951879492004-05-06T17:04:00.000-07:002004-05-06T17:10:20.013-07:00Gentle Readers:
So sorry for the delay, we've had connexion problems but all is well. So far: we rolled to Borrego Springs, I entered the PegLeg Smith Liar's Contest and came in dead last, so you can believe everything I say. We hung around Prescott (pronounced Preskit) AZ a few days - it was WalMart's fault. We wandered around central Arizona, were nauseated by Phoenix and vastly richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1080653603567385142004-03-30T05:33:00.000-08:002004-03-30T05:36:59.076-08:00The current fantasy: we'll FINALLY leave this afternoon, drive over the Sierras and down their eastern flank, across the Mohave Desert and thru Cajon Pass, then out to the Salton Sea and Anza-Borrego State Park - because, next weekend, is the Pegleg Smith Liar's Contest at Borrego Springs, and that seems like a worthwhile goal. Not to mention the wildflowers blooming there in profusion (it is richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1079947863696361982004-03-22T01:31:00.000-08:002004-03-22T01:38:57.593-08:00We left. On the 4th day, we returned. Click here for details of the short jaunt. An email from sister Marsha awaited us, asking where we were. Here's my reply:
> I assume you have left home and are on your travels,
> wherebouts would you be?
We left early Tuesday afternoon; drove to Kaiser/Folsom for more medical stuff, then headed south. Campered near Manteca. Wednesday we cruised down to richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1078762081508336752004-03-08T08:08:00.000-08:002004-03-08T08:24:46.310-08:00Gentle readers:
After several further infuriating but necessary delays, departure is imminant. I write this the morning of Monday 8 March 2004; our current fantasy, er I mean our intended take-off is mid-day tomorrow. Our expected return is around 12 June. That gives us (lemmee check the calendar) 13.5 weeks of small RV living. Survivors will be celebrated.
Meanwhile, the forecast for richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1076742789485022972004-02-13T23:13:00.000-08:002004-02-14T12:03:41.560-08:00As promised/threatened, the first journal entry for this journey (which hasn't started yet). Read and enjoy, or unsubscribe, or whatever.
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WHAT-HO? WHITHER? (mid Jan 2004)
Being a spring journey from our new Sierra Mountain home to warmer, sunnier climes. For three or four months. Slowly.
After our Spring 2003 Guatemala journey we planned to richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1076729797044862862004-02-13T19:36:00.000-08:002004-02-13T19:39:10.186-08:00Hello again:
Please bear with me - just this one more test message. Unsubscribe if you wish, or stay tuned for more.
--Ricrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1076723481663970962004-02-13T17:51:00.000-08:002004-02-13T19:32:11.326-08:00Gentle Readers: This is a test message. We'll embark on a 3-4 month journey in a week or so, and I'm testing a method to post journal entries to a blog which will automagically email the contents to YOU. If this works, a longer explanatory note will follow before long. If you don't wish to receive these journal notes, just reply to this message (or send an email to me at ric@sonic.net with therichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1076721248973956612004-02-13T17:14:00.000-08:002004-02-13T17:17:59.153-08:00OK, this will from now on be an actual travel log, with entries from my GoinGoinGone newsletter copied here whenever I get around to it. Enjoy.richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1074225234328269672004-01-15T19:53:00.000-08:002004-01-15T19:55:47.373-08:00Sorry for my long absense from this nacent site. The hiatus is somewhat explained over in my journal but also I'm just getting tired [again] of making political statements that are ignored. This will stop being a political blog. Democracy is already dead in the US. Continued political discourse is just so much mental masturbation, given the fascist takeover.richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1066022377308889302003-10-12T22:19:00.000-07:002003-10-12T22:19:37.216-07:00Where is this page going? I've considered various subjects over the last week+ like how putting Condaleeza Rice in charge of the gang running Iraq insures that when the oil tanker named after her arrives in port, workers will know to load it first. Or how Ahnold's campaign was backed by Enron and friends to keep the energy cartels from having to pay back the billions of bucks they ripped off fromrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1065180821796503722003-10-03T04:33:00.000-07:002003-10-03T04:38:35.853-07:00The latest about Ahnold - the sexual assaults (1070-2000), the admiration for Hitler, etc - reinforces his image as a despicable lout, but also smells strongly of a Gray Davis slash-and-burn campaign. Gray (described as "a Mr. Rogers double, lacking the charm") didn't take power in the world's 6th-largest economy by being a nice guy. Which leads to the question: Is Ahnold VICIOUS enough to richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1065180468344653372003-10-02T03:25:00.000-07:002003-10-03T04:27:48.176-07:00Paul Krugman is rattled. To quote a state department official who put it pungently to a reporter earlier this year, describing the dominance of the Pentagon hawks: "I just wake up in the morning and tell myself, 'There's been a military coup'. And then it all makes sense."richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1064997840907606212003-10-01T01:44:00.000-07:002003-10-01T01:58:11.643-07:00Where is America going? Totally nucking futz, of course. The inmates ARE running the asylum. But this isn't really new, and we can't just blame it on the overcrowded rats syndrome. Even back in a less dense, more bucolic America, Ambrose Bierce defined the Presidency as "the greased pig in the field game of American politics." Power is slimy, and so are the players. But now they're serious.richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1064975468215771972003-09-30T19:31:00.000-07:002003-09-30T23:20:42.716-07:00Where are the US and the world going? We'll see. Where is California going? Possibly to Ahnold, if one credits some polls. Go Ahnold! Despite the confessions of doping and orgying, the full-frontal nude photos. Or maybe BECAUSE of them! Maybe national Demos should use Ahnold as a role model. Ain't NONE of the prez candidates anything like a party animal - they're all so boring. Demos need richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1064859416154292892003-09-29T11:16:00.000-07:002003-09-29T11:16:56.060-07:00Made it there, made it back, details in my raw notes. Where we go this week (therapy, mail, shop, etc.) is pre-ordained. Where the nation and world go may also be pre-determined, by forces beyond our control. Bother.richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1064393955958604412003-09-24T02:01:00.000-07:002003-10-01T01:58:56.706-07:00But wait, there's more! Weaving around the Sierra crest, dodging UFOs and MIBs and XMLs and AQIs, avoiding Hypoxia! Capturing images and/or being captured by images! Avoiding the prevailing winds! Such a challenge!richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5853498.post-1064392627774374942003-09-24T01:33:00.000-07:002003-09-24T01:39:31.063-07:00A new journey, this blog. Might carry-over from previous efforts. To initiate this, we'll go away and won't post anything immediately. Off to a smoke- and smog-filled Yosemite Valley for as long as we can take it, or three days max.richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640417265798756247noreply@blogger.com