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“The Antidote to Civilization”
From the Sublime to the……Self-Indulgent? When we last left Stan and Stef, they were taking their leave of the Loire Valley, the epitome of sublime. Currently at Club Med Les Michès, Playa Esmeralda, in the Dominican Republic. This is a Thanksgiving family trip organized by Stef’s daughter and son-in-law (Rachel and Neil). Other attendees are…
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Row your boat
At night the body of clouds advancing higher up the sky smothers the whole quiet gulf below with an impenetrable darkness, in which the sound of the falling showers can be heard beginning and ceasing abruptly—now here, now there. Indeed, these cloudy nights are proverbial with the seamen along the whole west coast of a…
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Gently down the stream
The dawn breaks high behind the towering and serrated wall of the Cordillera, a clear-cut vision of dark peaks rearing their steep slopes on a lofty pedestal of forest rising from the very edge of the shore. Amongst them the white head of Higuerota rises majestically upon the blue. Bare clusters of enormous rocks sprinkle…
Something to Declare 