August 2026

  • They Call It Arid-zona

    Mosquito Abatement, Volunteer Watermelons and Monsoon It’s September 1st tomorrow, thank God, because August seemed to crawl by at a snail’s pace. I thought it would never end. Finally it’s ending. August was too humid and rainy and then too hot and miserable. The mosquitoes were out in force, and the little buggers are so…

  • A Cemetery in Wales

    In 1983 I took a trip to France, England and Wales with some friends. We went to Paris and met up with an acquaintance of mine who lived in Rueil Malmaison outside of Paris. We stayed on the Ile de La Cité for a couple of nights in a very old hotel and then we…

  • No Chicken No Pizza, Chichen Itsa – Part 2: My Trip to Belize

    This is where things literally and figuratively go really south. On the border between Mexico and Belize at the Hondo River we stop because we have to and the border crossing guard says welcome, checks everything, and then asks do you have car insurance? Oh yes, we say. We got it in Cancun, and the…

  • The Unending Tunnel of Jungle

    My Horror Journey to Belize Part 1 The year must have been 1975 plus or minus. Here’s what I was thinking: Belize is a good vacation destination because it’s an English speaking country and it’s exotic. Don’t forget it used to be British Honduras. Belize also has the largest barrier reef in Western Hemisphere and…

  • Verdizona

    We arrived in Southeast Arizona back in April of 2021. We didn’t know it yet but along about July it was going to start raining. A lot. I didn’t have a rain gauge that summer, so I don’t know exactly how much rain we got that year. I also didn’t know that it doesn’t take…