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.
PAPI AND THE SKINNY PIGS EPISODE, 1979
My next story comes from somewhere in the deep recesses of my mind. This time, I was just laying in bed contemplating my 74th birthday, when this vision of Peru leapt into my mind. It is a very meaningless and…
OUR CHRISTMAS 2022 – YOU HAD TO BE THERE TO BELIEVE IT!
Each year at this time, I try to post something related to the Christmas Season. I guess, as time passes, I am less fun to have around during this period. It seems like all of my pent up frustrations and…
THE SURPRISE BIRTHDAY THAT WENT HORRIBLY WRONG
Editor’s note: I must apologize for breaking away from our times in Texas, to bring you a story that flickered by my screen, and that I just could not resist writing about. This is just one example of the many…
JIMBORED RACES TO THE GRAND PRIX – 2003/4
I am now remembering a time while we lived in Houston, where I had the opportunity of a lifetime, twice. This occurred in spring 2003 and was repeated one year later in June of 2004. I was invited to accompany…
EASY RIDER CONQUERS TEXAS 2002 – 2004
For my next post about our time in Texas, I am going to write of my memories of Ange (or easy rider). At this point, she was a product of, a girls school in Edinburgh. They had trained her well.…
ONE LITTLE MISTAKE AND MY LIFE IS CHANGED FOREVER – 2002
I lay here in bed at 4 am letting my thoughts wander to times gone past and major events that happened to shape my life. I am pondering our years spent in Texas and trying to focus in on that…
THE TIME THE CATFISH ATE PAPI IN TEXAS 2003
This next piece is a memory of Deysi’s dad (Papi) during a time that he came to visit us in Texas and make sure all was well with us. Papi was born and raised in Peru and for his first…
INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO WITH SOME FOOLS, 2002
After a few days of writing random pieces, I am ready to return to a more or less chronological order to my memories. Where I left off a few months ago, was somewhere in the time, we spent in Texas…
THE OLD MAN AND THE FINCA
I guess some of you may have already noticed, that after a long, long, literary dry spell, my feeble brain has now dribbled out another thought. It ends a period where I could not remember why I was writing these…
TUNNELLING IN THE ANDES, EARLY 1970’s A PHOTO BY DEYSI’s LITTLE BROTHER
Hello JimboRedI tried to find my comment about Majes-Macon. I was not able to find itAnyways, here is picture. By hand, no GPS, no LaserA tunnel by hand, With my uncle Berrios and cousin Jose Aranibar (Bertoledo)My apologies again, worth…
