The only picture from The Strip that caught my interest at all was of the volcano in front of the Mirage. I camped out at this hotel for 35 to 40 minutes, initially waiting for the “eruption” to start, and then to snap pictures during the fairly lengthy eruption. I…
I uploaded the photos I took of the Las Vegas strip today. A bit disappointing. Lesson number one was about timing. I mean, I think pictures of Las Vegas have to be taken at night. Daylight and Las Vegas just don’t fit together in my mind. But I didn’t plan…
The High Rollers scooter rally claims to have the largest scooter ride in the nation: a ride to the Hoover Dam that supposedly involves close to a thousand scooters. I have no idea if that was the case. That ride was all about going as fast as one possibly could…
On my way back to NYC. Is Ellie born yet? I’ll find out when I get home, I guess. I’m sitting next to this American couple, from somewhere in the South, I’ll wager. I can’t believe the inanity of their conversation. I am such a misanthrope.
The drive back from Monteverde was bone jarring. God, that road was awful. All I can say is that I was so unbelievable grateful when I finally hit paved road. I had started grating and grinding my teeth about twenty minutes before out of sheer frustration. [At the airport a…
The cloud forest itself was less photographically interesting to me. Though I was fascinated by the fill-me-ferns and the… shoot… I think it was a kind of bamboo. No. Shoot, I’ve forgotten but it has orange and black fruit the size of cranberries, the orange being unripe, but used to…
I haven’t had a walk home like that in, oh, six, seven years. Not since the West Bank that night I had too much to drink at Nigel’s. It was so black tonight, like nothing I’ve ever experienced. I hated the light, and loved it at the same time. All…
The rain this afternoon was incredible. I imagine this was similar to El Nino in 96-97 before I moved to SF. It must have been an inch an hour, I don’t know exactly. It was torrential. I was trying to send an email to Azeema when I panicked about the…
I’m driving a new car here–a mini-SUV basically. I left the headlights on for, I don’t know, three hours, maybe four, and the battery was completely dead. I mean nothing. The hotel manager–a fellow gringo–suggested we push the damn car down the hill and start it while in motion. Didn’t…
Had a frustrating Manuel Antonio experience. I spent four hours hiking and only saw an agouti. For maybe six seconds. Most interesting thing all morning were the spreading roots of a tree. It was so amazing, the place was totally dead–as compared to yesterday when I was bumping into critters…
