February 17 , 2023 /

POST FROM SAN CARLOS, SONORA, MX

Remember post cards?  After 1901, postcards typically measured 3.5 x 5.5 inches, although variations in size exist. In the 1960s, some printers began producing 4 x 6 inch postcards.  They had some kind of photo on the front, often of a place being visited or some attraction in that place.  On the back was a

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January 30 , 2023 /

WISDOM

Thousands of years of wisdom literature have used the techniques of oral storytelling that was then disseminated in written form.  The collections include the wisdom literature from Sumeria and Babylonia, among the most ancient in the world, with the Sumerian documents dating back to the third millennium BC and and the Babylonian dating to the

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January 1 , 2023 /

NEW

NEW A new year, a new day and a new week, so why not a new blog?  Having finished the 30-day experiment, it seems a good time for a review and a reboot.  Many of us are glad to say good-bye to 2022 and take this blank canvas for 2023 as a gift and see

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December 14 , 2022 /

DAY FOURTEEN – WEATHER

We see the reports, the data having to do with temperature, wind, barometric pressure, whether or not there is any precipitation in the form of rain, snow or sleet, maybe even other details like sunrise and sunset.   We look ahead at predictions in order to be prepared or to know what to wear. One thing

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August 19 , 2022 /

LAST LEG SUMMER TRIP

AUGUST 12-19, 2022 The CAT FERRY is an amazing craft, a large catamaran with powerful diesel engines and top speed of 44 knots.  The crossing from Yarmouth, NS to Bar Harbor, ME, a distance of 123 nautical miles takes 3.5 hours.  The loading and unloading process, because we’re in a small motorhome, puts us on

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August 12 , 2022 /

LAST DAYS NL & NS

WEEK EIGHT August 5 –  Last night stayed at Gros Morne KOA near Rocky Harbor, NL and Gros Morne National Park.  Another LTV camper across the road, bicycling couple from Quebec and next to them, a Korean couple from Vancouver, BC.  The diversity of campers makes for an interesting mobile community.   We motor on

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