So last Tuesday, after recovering from the bike ride (solid 11 hour sleep) I was ready to resume my destiny with kitesurfing lessons, only it wasn´t very windy in the morning. At noon I met with Natalie and she thought it wasn´t such a great day and we should wait to see if the wind […]

Sorry for the break, I fell off the edge of the internet enabled world for a while and those stories will come later.
Back in Cabarete, I booked a one day mountain bike ride with Iguana Mama, an adventure tour group, that was to traverse the El Choco area, mainly an old dirt road that […]

Cabarete is a two-wheeled motoconch rice burner of a beach town complete with large expat population, intermittent blackouts, and every adventure excursion imaginable. You want to be on the beach to avoid the noxious engine fumes of carretera 5.
Took a walk along the beach after arriving hoping for a precious me moment of surfy-starry silence, […]

Shout outs to the British dude that convinced me to take the gua-gua (and explained how easy it was since everything is on carretera 5) instead of the taxi from Puerta Plata, and the sweet little Senora that told me when to get off. I don’t think anyone else would have. For the uninitiated, the […]

The Zona Colonial tour started out at Parque Colon, where the somewhat “official” hordes of dudes with lamenated “badges” befriend you and then farm you off to who might be the most appropriate underling for the tour. I got Rodolpho, a 40 something dude in a tucked tie-dye, and the choice somewhat dismayed me, since […]

Rusty tin roofed shanties surrounded by lush vegetation, baseball diamonds, bluer than blue ocean on descent into Santa Domingo. Met up with the Batey Relief Alliance folks no problem, even though I realized they didn’t know what I looked like and I didn’t even have a phone number. Duh. We piled in and made it […]

Leaving for the Dominican Republic tomorrow to visit and do photography for The Batey Relief Alliance, and then mountain bike, and lie on a beach somewhere with a coconut, before doing some hurricane wrangling. Yeah, it’s the latest X-treme Adventure sport. Be back in a couple of weeks. The DR is close to […]

Everyone fell in love with Kumar in Bottle Rocket. Here’s the “who was that man?” scene:

He’s got a great spinning plates scene in The Terminal, but there’s so much more to his talent as will be witnessed in the forthcoming KUMAR: MY 88 YEAR OLD BEST FRIEND.

Many mistakenly believe that Wes Anderson and Owen […]

Weeds
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1. Ragweed: 21
2. All identified weed pollen not counted elsewhere: 5
3. Goosefoot, Lamb’s Quarters, Pigweed, Amaranth, Saltbush, Russian Thistle: 3
4. Plantain: 2
5. Nettle family, Pellitory: 1
Arggh, curse you, Pigweed, Lamb’s Quarters, Amaranth! Seriously, are these weeds great Metal band names or what?

Mike Judge has a new movie out, “Idiocracy,” and no one seems to know about it. Apparently it has slipped under the radar due to issues with poor early screening ratings, delays and civil suits. Can’t find a trailer anywhere.
A perfectly cast Luke Wilson stars as a quintessential everyman who hibernates for centuries and […]