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Mar. 26, 2024

During my journeys through South America I have visited 36 towns/cities in Ecuador. In Perú, I visited 48; in Chile, only five; and in Argentina, I visited 16. In Uruguay, I visited five, and in Brazil, three. And in Paraguay I have visited 26. In Colombia I've visited 85. That's 224 towns/cities in South America.

I'm in Barranca, Perú.



Happy New Year and why are you feeling sad?

Jan. 1, 2020

New Year's Celebration in Cartagena, Colombia

New Year's Eve - why do people "feel kind of sad"? That is what I hear from people, even right now on CNN the talking heads are saying that. I don't understand it. I don't feel sad. I've never felt sad at the changing of the year. I don't understand why people would feel sad for the year changing. Why don't you feel happy that you have another year to look forward to? Another year to maybe make changes in your life.

Happy New Year

Dec. 31, 2019

The Aduana (customs) building in Barranquilla, built in 1919.

Another year is behind us,
We made mistakes, you and I,
What will we do about them?
Dwell on them until we are bitter and sad?
Or put them away and move forward?
Move forward to where? A new year,
A new opportunity, to write a new chapter,
in the story of our lives.
I, for one, am looking forward
to what might be in store for me.
I wish everyone a great and fantastic 2020!

Merry Christmas

Dec 25, 2019

Christmas display in one of the city parks.
Merry Christmas to everybody! I hope everyone has a great day.

Bodyweight Exerice Routine

Dec. 18, 2019

Me at the Bocas de Ceniza in 2015

Many people dismiss bodyweight exercises as too easy or too boring. Usually those people think only of pushups and lunges and leave it at that. Well, that’s just not the case. The number of bodyweight exercises is just about countless, and you can probably think of variations of your own.

One of the nice things about bodyweight exercises is you are not limited to the gym. You can do them anywhere – at home, at your workplace, in a hotel room, at the beach, in a park.

Found some really old blogs

Aug. 23, 2003

Cheryl with Crater Lake in the background

Recently I was browsing the website The Wayback Machine (check it out if you haven't seen it) and I found they had a few of my oldest blogs archived. Those date back to 2002, and possibly are not complete, but they are more than I had from those early years. There are five of them, not many, but better than none at all. If interested you can read them, they're all quite short, by clicking on the Old Blogs button at the top of the page, then going to the last pages of the list. The picture above is Cheryl standing near the edge of Crater Lake, in Oregon, when we were on vacation in 2003.