How to surprise javelinas
byThe destructive javelina vandals returned—but we were ready for them!
The destructive javelina vandals returned—but we were ready for them!
Javelina vandals caught on camera.
I still feel my choice to become an American many years ago was the correct one.
So, I’m expecting a couple of packages. The FedEx tracking site says they’re “on vehicle for delivery.” Yippee! When your box falls off a…
You may want to know how to kill scorpions if you find them in your house, as I do. Or maybe not. I am…
Salvador Dali knew about lurking lobby luggage thieves.
A hotel I stayed in was unabashed enough to provide shampoo in a water glass! Obviously they’d simply run out of amenity bottles. But…
Intruder on the loose. In the midst of all the excitement of the premiere of our National Geographic documentary, and all the television promotion…
Hamburg, Germany—Undercover pickpocket cop Michael-G is the first person we’ve met who exceeds our own nutcase-level of fascination with pickpocketry. The day we spent…
> Even more! See edit at the bottom. 10,000 shipping containers are lost at sea each year! From my naive perspective, I’m shocked by…
Despite the focus on negative experiences compiled on this site, it is possible to travel without being ripped off. It bothers Bob and me…
Violent sex in hotel rooms may or may not excite you, but it’s happening more and more often these days. “Traumatic insemination” is the…
These are the Mac laptops I never sold or gave away. Three are in current use. One is a backup. The others have occasionally…
Anyone remember this old relic? We were so thrilled with it. We’d spent a year in Africa and needed a laptop. Apple didn’t make…
Adult: “Nice dog. What’s his name?” “Thermidore.” “Hi Sermidore! Good dog!” “THERmidore,” child enunciates. “Oh, SIR Midore,” adult says. “An honorable dog.” “No, Ther-mi-dore.”…
Traumatic insemination is worth mentioning as a follow up to my post on bed bugs in hotels. Male bed bugs, ScienceNews reports, “ignore the…
“Hand Picked Golden Dragon” RAM wrapped in gold silk brocade! Cleaning the garage, I found these gorgeous packages perfectly preserved in an airtight box….
Papua New Guinea Would a slathering of Dijon tempt the formerly (?) (supposedly) cannibalistic highland villagers? I couldn’t get myself to attempt the experiment….
I came across some calceteiros in the process of creating the gorgeous Portuguese mosaic sidewalks. In time, shoes polish the mosaics to a slippery…
I’m sure it sounds obsessive to mention the necessity of onboard watchfulness when you fly. The likelihood of theft while on an aircraft is…
While in Africa with cousin Ty, he showed me a jury-rigged lizard catcher he made from a long, pliable twig and a piece of…
Is it humorous, or just pathetic? I got a letter in the mail this week from a literary agent. His letter was dated and…
1. Traipsing through another airport—where were we, passing through Chicago, maybe?—we mounted a mile-high escalator, going up. (Which is the only way escalators should…
Mala Mala and Kruger National Park, South Africa— Spiders were an everpresant danger to a number of our safari group, to the extent that…
t was a mesquite, 35 or so feet tall, graceful in an awkward way. Craving light, the poor thing crooked its trunk this way…
An entertainer friend of mine practiced magic as a kid. One day he went to Busch Gardens amusement park with his family. There he…
My Swedish brother-in-law came to visit us in Las Vegas. While Bob and I were off on a trip, he decided to upgrade our…
Who’s looking at you when you buy a coffee? It’s creepy, when you know all they can see. At the World Game Protection Conference…
I did not intend to dwell on random negativity here, but when I came across this sign a few days ago, I took it…
I’ve been listening to essays by George Orwell. Terry, a voracious reader, devoured Orwell after Proust and Vidal, and he’s now working on Paul…