Living in Vegas for a number of years, I always had a hard time understanding demolition of great buildings just to make room for new ostentatious ones. (i.e. implosion of the Hacienda which I witnessed from the Tropicana, where I worked, on NYE 1996; later…
Category: Transportation
The modes used to get to and get around by air, on land or on the sea
Cruising the Atlantic
Phew! Fourteen days of very little internet! Frustrating at times, exhilarating at others, but we survived this crossing at sea and gave ourselves a true break from reality. Enjoy these tidbits I have compiled about the beginning of this Spring Fling 2018 and continue to…
Northern Food Finale Plus Bangkok Dining and Exit
Arriving late after being “Shang-haied in Shang Hai” we decided to wait a little later to eat on the first night of my friends arrival to Chiang Mai. We wondered the blocks between and around our condo and her hotel. Finally, we decided it was…
Gastronomy 2
Food is sustenance and therefore necessity. Happily we have enjoyed dining out about one meal a day. It’s hard to food shop without waste and get the same result you can ordering food from a street vendor or in most restaurants here. This post is…
Seaside Stay
Visa requirements for visits longer than 30 days in Thailand, with their associated costs and time investment for meeting the requirements led us to a getaway from our getaway. For about the same expenditure as the extended stay visa, we escaped Chiang Mai and our…
Holiday Season Ends and a New Year Begins!
Being home for the holiday season is a goal for us in this current lifestyle of part time on the mountain/part time Nomad. We have enjoyed time with family and friends. People have been saying to me, “So, where are you vacationing this year?”. Vacationing…
Long time; no blog
No travels and attending to my work season has me longing for a blogging opportunity! So here we go! Summer was filled with taking care of business at BoCo Sluice Box as well as our home and rental properties. Preparations for the celebration of our…
Family Spring Fling
Our introduction to Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico started at Barcelona Tucancun, an Occidental Resort and Hotel. Our daughter arrived later than we had anticipated due to flight delays. We settled into our room and enjoyed dinner at the Seafood Restaurant Claraboya followed by cocktails in the main lounge…
Sports Extravaganza
Grabbing our truck from my son’s friends in Long Beach and settling in for a long nap to reacclimate to the Pacific Time Zone was our goal on landing back at LAX. We grabbed an Uber after making our way through customs and were headed to Long Beach in no…
Nice to meet you, Malaysia!
We landed safely (even survived the fumigation 😉 as the sun was setting across the tarmac in Kuala Lumpur. We lost an hour in this flight. We were now in a new time zone. As our descent brought land into our sight lines, I was amazed…
