For my last blog entry of the year, here’s a bit of a muted sunset shot on Bonaire just a few weeks ago. I’ve posted 191 blog entries since July 2, 2004, over two per day; we’ll see if I can keep that up in 2005! Keep tuning in for more… useless [...]
We made it home from Boston safe and sound yesterday, albeit at various times, because I got bumped off the flight. Yay, $500 coupon for me. When I arrived in Boston, five hours later than Kathy, I stumbled into the American Airlines baggage claim counter hoping to get them to find my bags [...]
I was thoroughly impressed with the variety of plants covering Bonaire. I’d been led to believe it was a dry, sandy, desert island with little or no plant life save scrubby bushes and cactus. But unusually intense rains in the months prior to our visit meant the island was “as green as it [...]
Islanders really seem to enjoy their colors. The building style du jour is concrete block, but they make up for it with paint of all sorts. You can tell the foreign-owned houses in their traditional white or off-white, set off against the neon pinks, pale blues, yellows, greens… pretty much any color [...]
Well, Christmas Day has come and gone, and everyone around here in Boston seems to be well-fed and content as a result. I made the mistake of assuming that the weather forecast I checked four days ago would be accurate through the middle of this week: sunny and mid-30’s until our flight home [...]
A bit of snow fell on Boston the day prior to our arrival. Since then it has gotten warm and rained away most of it, but we had a chance to take the dogs out to play. Here’s Chaco in action.