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…
ABANDONED IN JAPAN WITHOUT A CENT 1983
This next post is a “flashback in time” to Japan in the summer of 1983. Although, completely innocent of all wrong doing, I was subjected to a large ration of abuse for a long time. I will tell this story…
HUNTING TEXAN STYLE – JIMBO RED JOINS ROYALTY AND FITS RIGHT IN – PART ONE.
I will preface this next story, by saying, that, as I am remembering it, and preparing it for writing, I am struck by how unbelievable it sounds. It is understood, that, many of you will read a few sentences and…
AND YET ANOTHER READER STEPS UP AND “HITS ONE OUT OF HERE” – SCOTLAND 2008
EDITOR’S NOTE: Apparently, one of my loyal readers, found something in my babbling about Scotland. That stirred memories of his, and his leader’s, rambling around, in the Highlands. He has now, put those memories to paper. And as always, my…
CHASED BY CHINESE HOARDS INTO THE SCANDANAVIAN ARCTIC – 2001
In a previous article, about my travels to Norway, I touched on our dependence on iron ore. One of our biggest, most profitable business lines, was applying cement and iron ore to offshore pipeline pipe. The weight created by the…
AND LIKE QUETZALCOATL JIMBO RED FINISHES AND LEAVES, WITH A PROMISE TO RETURN ONE DAY, PART III
With land and labor contract’s in place, it was now time to get on with building a plant. I returned from Mexico City, after a contract was signed, and prepared to return to my office in Canada. “Not so fast”,…
COATZACOALCOS MEXICO, WORKING IN THE LAND OF THE AZTEC 1997 – PART II
My mind has wandered back to the year 1997, in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. It is now winter, January, and I am back, after a Christmas break. The biggest task left, is to negotiate a contract for the land, (read swamp). This…
COATZACOALCOS 1997 – JIMBORED LANDS 1000 YEARS AFTER QUETZALCOATL LEAVES
Once again, I find I must break away from our time in Scotland, to fill in a long dormant memory. This time my mind wanders to Mexico and memories of our time there. I must say, that my memory seems…
