Jimbo Red
Retired on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada after spending 30 years overseas in Engineering, Procurement and Construction. involved in Oil and Gas, Pulp and Paper, Civil, Pipeline, Protective Coatings, Refinery and Chemical as well as participation "onsite" during the firefighting efforts in Kuwait after the war with Iraq. Married 5 children, 4 grandchildren and a boat.
PLEASE STOP THE EXCITEMENT – JIMBORED CANNOT TAKE ANYMORE FUN – PERU 2012 PART VII
When I finished writing about the highlights of our 2012 trip to Peru, I suddenly realized, pieces were overlooked. Therefore as a final chapter to this adventure, I will sweep up everything, that was missed, and dump it into this…
THEY LEAVE JIMBORED BEHIND AND INVADE HOLLAND – 2011
I suppose you may have determined from the title, that this story will not be about JimboRed. Rather it is about a time when the girls took a break from me and ventured off to Europe. They left me and…
A RAGING TORRENT, A BAPTISM AND ANOTHER TOUR OF AREQUIPA – 2012 PART VI
I will write now about our time in Arequipa now. We passed thru Arequipa on three different occasions, in early 2012. We were there before, during and after the holiday at the beach. Also for a couple of days during…
WE ESCAPE TO THE SOUTH AND THE BEACH – PERU 2012, PART V
I start this post, having just fled from an earthquake in Ica. We had to interrupt our planned continuation to Bubbaloo’s home town of Arequipa. 100% because of the uncertainty of the situation in Ica after the earthquake. We had…
AN EARTHQUAKE IN ICA, PERU, SENDS JIMBORED FLEEING – JANUARY 2012 – PART IV
As I promised, we are now back in Ica and ready for the next part of our 2012 Peruvian Adventure. My incessant writing about Peru must have everyone tired by now. However, it seems my fondest memories always take me…
WE TRACK DOWN DEYSI’s PEOPLE DEEP IN THE ANDES OF PERU – 2012 PART III
As promised, we have finally arrived at the village of Deysi’s ancestors, deep in the Andes mountains of Peru. This is the culmination of a trip that I had yearned for, for 33 years. It finally ties the whole family…
JIMBORED FINDS ADVENTURE DEEP IN THE PERUVIAN ANDES – 2012 – PARTII
This next adventure has been waiting it’s turn for years. It might be the greatest of all our treks into the Peruvian Andes. It starts in Lima where we had just had a whirlwind two days looking around the city…
2012 AND MY IDYLLIC DAYS COME CRASHING DOWN- GUESS WHY? PERU 2012 PART I
The early years of our retirement seem to spin away as whirlwinds into a storm. In many ways, there is still a lot to write about in those years 2006 to 2012. It’s just that Ol’ JimboRed’s brain is having…
JIMBORED IS PISSED, WHAT AN EM”BARE ASS” MENT – NOV. 2024
I am not sure that any of my readers have noticed, but for the past couple of years, Ol’ JimboRed has refrained from going on a real rant. I’m talking about a good ol’ fashioned screaming, spitting, cursing, meltdown. The…
JIMBORED HAS DREAMS OF THE OPEN ROAD AND THEN WAKES UP- 2010
I am sitting here in front of my typewriter, trying to come up with something interesting to fill in the early years of our retirement. The problem is, that I cannot even find anything of note, to, vaguely, interest even…
