RAMBLING MIND THE GREAT APRIL FOOLS FLOP OF 2020
MY BLOG IS DEAD! After three days of hard blogging, today my Blog is finished. I have been told that my blogging is obsessive, destroying families, leaving those at home without nurture and otherwise disrupting the sanctity of isolation. All…
RAMBLING MIND AM I NOW A GEEK? APRIL 2020 IN MY LAIR
As I mentioned in an earlier post my partner (Bubbaloo) and I have been self isolating for the past 14 days. I did not have any intention of doing that until my Golf Course took away my power cart and…
RANTS THINGS THAT PISS ME OFF HOW MANY CHURCHES
My next biggest Rant will be one that is not going to be very popular with a lot of my readers. However I have been holding it inside for years and I feel I must just let it blossom before…
MEMORY I FEEL FAINT HAVE I CROSSED AN ANGEL JAN. 1978
One very vivid memory of my early times in Peru was at the time of my arrival to our worksite in the Andes Mountains, north and east of the main city of Arequipa, Peru. To arrive at the Canadian encampment,…
IMAGES DEYSI CHRISTENING A TUNNEL IN THE ANDES 1975
This photo taken circa 1975 in the Andes Mountains of Peru and depicts the opening of one of the first tunnels, tunnel 26 near Huambo. Bubbaloo was onsite and pretty much running the show at this time.
MY OPINION MATTERS IS THE CLUTCH FINALLY SLIPPING
The beauty of an aging mind. One man’s opinion. As time goes on, and one realizes that the old clutch might be going and the bands may be slipping, some benefits become apparent. It is as if a new life…
INTO THE YONDER A GYPSY’S DISCOVERY OF PERU
The second story of this journey, is from early January 1978 and tracks my transition from Canada to Peru. I was armed with a brief indoctrination about Peru, the job and what to expect. This from people in the Toronto…
MEMORY DEPARTING INTO THE UNKNOWN CALGARY 1977
This section is a little harder to define than the others. I was trying to find a place where I could add observations, feelings at the time of an event, sights, sounds, smells and concerns. The first one I can…
RANTS OR THINGS THAT PISS ME OFF – THE MEDIA 2020
My first rant of this new blog is about something that has become one of my biggest pet peeves and disappointments in the past few years. That being the MEDIA. For many years I was basically a “sheep” being herded…
IMAGES THE SIGHTS & COLORS OF VENICE ITALY OCT 2018
Throughout the course of the life of this “blog” I will post pictures that I feel are representative and descriptive of some of our travels around this world. If there are any you like please feel free to use them…