EL COHETE SE RECUPERA – PART I
El Cohete is Recovering – Part I After a long month, El Cohete is recovering. It was a month of great turmoil and agitation, It was a time of emotional stress and confusion. It had such an innocent start. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A GOOD DEED GO ASKEW? It was a good day, a […]
Romance On the Ride: When El Cohete Meets La Margarita
Sometimes on The Ride of our lives, Something happens. It may begin with a feeling – an awakening of attraction. Then the attraction leads to curiosity. And that curiosity is all about another. And so that curiosity in another expands. It expands into wonder, fixation, and eventually to affection. It is that affection for another […]
MOROCCAN MEMORIES, PART 4 – Onward to Marrakech
We arrived in Marrakech and checked into our accommodations at The Art Place Hotel and Riad, located just at the entrance to the old city’s medina. This is the original walled part of a city and was like those in other cities we visited. When we were in Fez, we walked to the medina and […]
Moroccan Memories, Part 2 – Being There
What is it like to explore Morocco? The omnipresent geometry, the Riads, and the meals soon became familiar. As we traveled our route in a small bus from Rabat to Fez, and later over the Atlas Mountains into the Sahara Desert, and on to Marrakesh, we were able to do more than simply observe our […]
Memories of a trip to another world – Morocco
Turn Right at the Pyramid
Travel: don’t do it Don’t go; stay home where your feet know the way along the street, where you speak and your words are understood, where you easily find Hostess Twinkies at the supermarket. Don’t let your feet wander through remote villages without roads. Don’t feel the panic when your words are not understood. […]
El Cohete Libre
The Rocket lived a comfortable lifestyle. Well, as comfortable as it can be for a Rocket that had to be confined to life in an urban home, in an urban neighborhood full of other people and pets. He was limited to long walks mostly on sidewalks (!) led on a leash (!) and then pulled […]
A Roman Coffee Break
A cup of coffee with a lesson I love to travel; I love the adventure of it, all that is unknown and soon to become known. In that spirit I once impulsively booked a trip to Rome. This was at a time when both our workloads were intense but there was a brief break of […]
An Enduring Gift
Part I: That is what happened to me. Several years ago, at a social event, we met a man who lived nearby. In casual conversation he mentioned his garden and invited us to visit – and we did. His home sat on a large lot, and he described how he had cleared the entire lot […]
COHETE VE UNA PELÍCULA
After his terrifying incident with the bad guy, el mal tipo, Cohete settled into a comfortable lifestyle as a member of his adopted family. To him, it was the only family he knew – where he received lots of attention from the dad, the mom, and the boy. On daily walks he became well-known in […]