UMTravels

So, this morning it was on the road by 8am, after a long night last night. Destino (Destination)? El Valle (The Valley), a town situated in the crater of a dormant volcano, and home to a bunch of super-expensive houses in addition to the more normal rural village life. Though it wasn’t listed on the [...]

I love it when Oneil (our guide whose name isn�t really Oneil, but it�s close enough to the real thing and easier for the white tongue to pronounce) says that we are having a late morning departure� in organized tour speak, that means on the bus n your seat by 9am. Which for me means [...]

For Caravan Tours this is an easy day: No luggage to pack Out the door at 9am Today’s journey is to Gaton, where we wait to board an old (96 years old) rum rummer allegedly owned by Al Capone (for rum running) and Steve McQueen (for partying in the 60′s). I have yet to verify [...]

Or maybe the title of the post should be “Three Buses and a Black Jesus”. Total was a whole lot of time on buses, not something that I like in a holiday. Doesn’t help that I have to share unlike the Copper Canyon trip where I had two seats to myself. Oh well. An early [...]

An easy day today – so why was I up at 6am. Oh, that’s right — the previous guest had the alarm set for 6am. Actually, it was good, I’d gone to bed early, and I used the time to listen to a web conference video and bill some hours, catch up on email, and [...]

Most of day one was spent in the air getting to Panama. No real problems in the air, but a very short layover in Miami so it was basically go from one gate to the next where they were already boarding. Not the way that I like to do it. My seat mate for some [...]

That’s what I’m looking forward to. Packed a sleeping pill just in case for the Seattle-Dallas/Ft.Worth red-eye. Two hours in Dallas in the morning, an hour or so in Miami before arriving at 2pm in Panama City, Panama. Today — went to look at Mark and Kassie’s place (gorgeous) and took Mark for a ride [...]

Here is my list of things I had planned to do today — and didn’t: Faerie Coffee with Stardust from San Francisco Wine Tasting at EVS Tour of Mark and Kassie’s townhouse Things that I did get done: Finished packing for the Panama trip that I leave on tomorrow night Additional rework of a corporate [...]

Wow — no moss under my feet (possibly between my toes)… back for three days (or is it four) and already need to leave town even though I leave for Panama on Sunday night. Olympia is calling — dinner with Curt, Rich, and our young’en Brandon. But before I get to that, just an update [...]

Working out more details of the Birthday Cruise 2010 (while starting to pack for Panama). The hotel/motel where Swanda and I stayed a couple of years ago was… inexpensive… for a reason. Yikes. One night = OK, but I’m going for two nights before and two nights after. My $276.40 round-trip (checked today and it’s [...]