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.
HARVEST TIME AT THE FINCA – WE FINALLY START THE REAPING – AUGUST 2024
What follows here, is a small collection of gardening memories, which although trivial, finally lead us to the first harvests. As I have said before, a great deal of what we sowed, came from seedlings, planted and nurtured in Ron’s…
AN OLD MAN STARTS A NEW CAREER ON THE FINCA – 2024
I am not quite sure if anyone noticed, but I have not been writing for a while. Also, I am not quite sure why this literary “dry spell”, has occurred. In some ways, perhaps, I just got tired of my…
RON SHOWS US THE DANGERS OF COSTA RICA CHRISTMAS – 2010
I am now writing of the early years of our retirement, and, in some ways, I am finding it harder to remember events worth putting on paper. Could it be that we had become boring in our retirement. Or, was…
JIMBORED GOES OFF-ROAD AND DISAPPEARS INTO THE WILDERNESS – 2007
My vision of retirement, had for many years, included some time, set aside, for old JimboRed to get back into the bush and relive some of the days of my youth. In my younger days, my friends and I spent…
JIMBORED HAS VISIONS OF GLADIATORS, CHARIOTS AND GLORY – ROME 1999
With my last story just finished, I have been reminded of another lapse in my memory. It seemed that I “breezed” through my memories of our times in Scotland, and “breezed” right past our trip to Rome. Only, a fool…
SURVIVAL IN THE TEETH OF HURRICANE IKE – HOUSTON 2008
My next little story is sure to draw howls of protest from Ron. But, trust me on this, I believe it to be true, just as the voices, in my mind, recited it to me. I can just hear her…
AND ALL THE WILD TIMES I OVERLOOKED WHEN WRITING THIS BLOG
Here I sit at the start of year 2024, staring into my screen, wondering what I will write about next. I am not having any great “AHHA” moments. So, I start to read thru a list I had made before…
FAREWELL AREQUIPA, OUR FIRST RETIREMENT TRIP IS HISTORY – 2007 IN PICTURES
We have now come to the end of my memories from our first retirement trip to Peru in 2007. We had made trips to the beach at Mollendo, went to explore the south of Peru, with a sneak peak of…
WHEN WATER FROM THE ANDES TOUCHED THE DRIEST PLACE ON EARTH – PERU 2007 PART THREE
Fresh from our trip to Tacna and side trip to Chile, we were once again back in Arequipa. Like every trip we ever made back to Deysi’s homeland, we packed as much activity into it as possible. We had returned…
WATCH OUT CHILE, HERE COMES BUBBALOO AND IS SHE PISSED – 2007 – PART TWO
This next piece is difficult to write. Mostly because it is difficult for me to describe exactly, the feelings and emotions that went into making this excursion. Bubbaloo, the invariable leader of our touring team, was not jumping up and…
