My last overseas adventure took me to London, England, then south to Cornwall, then finally a short hop across the channel to Amsterdam before returning home. While I did indeed see and experience many lovely and interesting things, one of the most amusing was this sign:

It seems to warn unwary passers by of a mysterious [...]

Whenever I travel, whether to different states or entirely different countries, one of my favorite things to do is look at road signs. Public service signage in general is sort of fascinating to me, as it’s meant to be universally understandable, a true “lowest common denominator” form of communication. Also, it can often be quite [...]

The following is a bit of stuff that I started to write about my most recent trip to Nicaragua to see my brother, well over a year ago. After returning from that trip, I ended up getting extremely busy and never made it past my recap of the first day. Oh, well. Enjoy!
The idea for [...]

The trip back home was pretty smooth. No troubles at the border, and it was nice to pretty much know what was going on. While we were waiting for the passports on the Nica side, a nice woman sat down next to me asking if I’d like to help her out with a “sorbet” which [...]

Well, some of you may have noticed that there hasn’t been as many stories this time around. One reason for that is that there really hasn’t been all that much going on around here on account of all the rain and the crappy wind that’s made it so there hasn’t been any surf available anywhere. [...]