Yesterday Ed and I started our search for a church community in Eugene, a town we recently moved to. Based on a web search, we had a list of five spiritual groups that looked potentially interesting. Picking the first one on the list, we headed for their 10:30 Sunday service….
Our dear tai chi master, Dr. Paul Lam, and his partner Hazel invited us to join them as part of a small group on a two-week tai chi workshop/tour of China. Dr. Lam said he designed the trip to be “fun and serious, leisurely and exciting, like the yin and…
How do you define a ‘gentleman’? We recently returned from our one-month cruise up the coast of Brazil and into the Amazon. I wrote and published a daily travel blog, which often described the triumphs and foibles we observed in our fellow passengers and ourselves. I failed to write about…
Travel Blog #5 March 13 – 17 March 13 Today we cruised along the Amazon, our main reason for embarking on this remarkable journey. Amazonia, the world’s largest tropical rain forest, covers an area of 5.5 million square kilometers. It generates more than 20 percent of the globe’s oxygen, which…
TRAVEL BLOG 4 March 8 – 12 March 8: Natal Natal, which in Portuguese means Christmas, is the capital and largest city of the state of Río Grande do Norte, very close to the eastern-most tip of Brazil. I’m attaching a photo of our itinerary to illustrate Natal’s position on…
TRAVEL BLOG 3 March 4 – 8 Armaçao dos Búzios & Salvador da Bahia Armaçao dos Búzios At 7:00 a.m., the ship sailed into Búzios, a vacation destination nestled into the hills of a peninsula just northeast of Rio de Janeiro. From our ship, it resembled an upscale resort town…