Category Archives: Travels

Dining with the Ghosts of Sarah Bernhardt and Alfons Mucha

By jlcollinsnh | Published: May 15, 2013

The lobby of Hotel Pariz, Prague For the jlcollinsnh family, so far 2013 has been a very good year. The house is finally sold, freeing up some capital. The stock market has been on a tear. Our daughter had her milestone 21st birthday April 1st. Unfortunately, for that last, she’s in Rennes, France and we [...]

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Greetings from Prague & a computer question

By jlcollinsnh | Published: April 26, 2013

A Cool, if a bit creepy, Prague street sculpture* Welcome to my first “on the road” post ever! Those of you who are regular readers know that, when I travel, I leave the electronics behind. In fact, even if you just read the last post you know this. The reasons are many. Mostly, I like to [...]

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Swimming with Tigers, a 2nd chance on the Chautauqua, a financial article gets it wrong and I’m off to Prague

By jlcollinsnh | Published: April 18, 2013

One of 36 seriously cool animal photos While we won’t be swimming with tigers, we also have a seriously cool Chautauqua coming together this September, including our new mountain location: Hacienda Cusin. What might make this interesting to you is this note I just got from Cheryl: “Hey guys, We had a couple drop out [...]

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Meet Mr. Money Mustache, JD Roth, Cheryl Reed & me for a Chautauqua in Ecuador

By jlcollinsnh | Published: February 24, 2013

Mi Lindo Ecuador Chautauqua – “…an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer.” Robert M. Pirsig That’s the definition Pirsig used in “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” a book I read in the 1970s [...]

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Cafes

By jlcollinsnh | Published: February 13, 2013

Un Cafe du Paris Parisians love their cafes. Over this past Christmas we were there. It was December. It was cold. It was damp. It was sometimes raining. And there were the Parisians sitting in their cafes. Outside. We chose the inside seats. But the last time, some 23 years ago, it was Spring and [...]

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Meet me in Ecuador?

By jlcollinsnh | Published: October 14, 2012

Later this month I’ll be returning to Ecuador for several weeks.  I decided to do this to amuse myself and, well, because being retired I can. Once I decided to go my attention turned to what might be interesting to explore while I’m there.  Mostly I’ll be following my own advice  avoiding the sights, lingering in [...]

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Travels in South America: It was the best of times….

By jlcollinsnh | Published: September 2, 2012

This is where we went If you find Lima on the map, that’s where our journey began.  From there we flew to Cusco for the excursion to Machu Picchu.  Travel by bus then took us to Puno on Lake Titicaca and the Altiplano; Copacabana, La Paz and Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia; San Pedro de Atacama [...]

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Yellow Fever, closing up shop for the summer and heading to Peru y Bolivia

By jlcollinsnh | Published: June 22, 2012

For over a week now I’ve been afflicted with Yellow Fever.  I blame the Bolivians. Reasonable people might suggest I also bear some personal responsibility.  It was I, after all, who made the appointment at the clinic, drove over and said to the nice lady, “Say, why don’t you load up a syringe with a [...]

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Where in the world are you?

By jlcollinsnh | Published: April 3, 2012

jlcollinsnh around the world I don’t know too much about this whole blogging process.  Since starting last June, I’ve only barely figured out how to write the posts and put them up.  But measuring readership and other metrics is still mostly a mystery to me.  (I also just got an email from a reader asking [...]

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Muk Finds Success in Tahiti

By jlcollinsnh | Published: February 1, 2012

Let’s run away together One day, many years ago, I was having an especially bad day at work.  Late in the afternoon I called my not-yet-then-but-soon-to-be wife and said: “I’m sick of this crap.  Let’s quit our jobs and run away to Tahiti.”  I’m not entirely sure I knew where Tahiti was at the time. [...]

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