Manuelita Villas
Travel Blogs from Port of Spain
Its an adventure !!
Swami Ronnie says, "Its not an adventure until **** hits the fan".
I started driving early morning at around 6 AM today because I had a 12 hour long drive ahead of me to reach Charlotte, NC to meet Vivek. He's a friend that I have known from Seattle and he now lives in Charlotte with his wife, Laxmi.
90 minutes or so into driving and I got busted for speeding ...
Austin to San Jose
... plane. The conversations get more interesting as we go. We're off to a great trip!
Safely in the ground in Costa Rica. And the adventure begins. I should have spent a little more time sharpening up on my Spanish growing up in Texas. So far the lyrics to La Bamba aren't getting me far but getting lots of smiles from the ...
In and around ‘The Queen’
... the Uptown building housing Arts & Crafts and the section housed in the old Mint Building. So what did we see.
Uptown.
This one was primarily for Malc him being a ‘woodworker’ Against the Grain no pun intended – well maybe there is :)
I suppose some of these exhibits went against my grain as they weren’t constructed ...
Dinner & Lunch
... spend time in a normal setting!! Their son Jon had been injured in Iraq during the war (in a car accident) and had lost his speech, use of his left arm and could not walk (he could ride a tricycle though). He spoke by one finger typing into a small pc which then spoke the sentences. Wayne spent some time chatting about cycling - he has a friend who has cycled across America a number of times....makes cycling to ...
Heading North to get South
Saturday morning, Kerrin and Wayne headed for what we thought was the nearest grocery store. We had passed some on the way in the previous evening, so we back tracked to a store on The Carolina Commons called Harris Teater. This turned out to be a very nice fairly upmarket large grocery store with very friendly people - most of the Kentucky twang was gone from their accents so we could actually understand what people ...