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Make Your Coach Flight Easier: Ten Things To Bring
Putting on fresh knickers when you are between flights is also a nice comfort, and if you are... Read more…Sea Turtle Rescue at the Casa Magna
His window is very narrow, just three hours, so the first thing he does is sweep the beach looking for signs of the wavy flat tracks the turtle flippers make as they move away from the surf and towards their urgent business. Once the turtles dig their pits and lay, which can take an hour or more, they sweep sand across the hole until their eggs are buried in a foot of fine blond sand, then lumber back towards to ocean to hope their progeny survives. The biologist, clock ticking, is just Read more…
Spiritual Foodie: Touring Madrid On My Stomach
It calls to you from every coffee shop, from every cervecería, from every restaurant—and there are hundreds. Most of them feature... Read more…
Finding Spirituality Everywhere
About every quarter, we pack an overnight bag, leave the dogs with a housesitter, and drive the two-and-a-half hours from LA to San Diego to visit my favorite cousin, Randy, and his long-time girlfriend, Lisa. Wonderful people, warm, hospitable and friendly, Lisa is a Catholic who attends mass, well, religiously, and Randy is a bit of an atheist. In fact, he seems to have embraced food as his religion, and Greg and I inevitably come home with a "meat hangover" by Sunday evening. Read more…A visit to the Holy Springs of Tirta Empul
A visit to the holy springs of Tirta Empul is a glimpse inside Bali's spiritual heart. Almost devoid of tourists but brimming with locals come to take the holy waters,… Read more…