June 6, 2016 – D-Day, as in Departure Day One last crème brulee before I go. Rodrigo caught me at breakfast to say that the flight out of Easter Island might be delayed… he wasn’t sure. It might be cancelled. He wasn’t sure. Some websites were saying it was delayed, some were saying it was […]
One hundred six. Or one hundred two. My iPhone’s weather app says it’s mid-90s outside but that it feels like 106 degrees in Lake Buena Vista or only 102 degrees in Orlando proper. Yet, I needed a break from curating the Easter Island / Machu Picchu photos… and I needed to get some mileage in. […]
June 5, 2016 – Rapa Nui Marathon Last night the course overview and pasta dinner was a disaster. It was scheduled to start at 7 pm and we thought we would therefore have plenty of time to eat and head to the show for 8:30. We were told it was a fifteen minute walk but […]
June 4, 2016 – Forget it, Kevin. It’s Rapa Nui. Still no word from Skywalker or Solo. It’s an ominous phrase in The Empire Strikes Back, a featured extra line that resonates through the opening scenes of Hoth; her friends and our heroes are lost and Princess Leia feels the cold in so many ways. […]
June 3, 2016 – They May Take Our Lives But They’ll Never Take Our Free Day! This afternoon I committed a cardinal sin of a tourist – I forgot to take my camera with me. I went for a short 6 mile run to clear my head and shake off the cobwebs for the marathon […]
June 2, 2016 – Moais and More Moais, Oh, My! Today was the big full day tour of Rapa Nui. And no day starts better than with crème brule at breakfast! Once again boarding our minibus with Gabriel and Christian, we set off on an all-day sightseeing tour that brought us face to face with […]
June 1, 2016 (An Addendum) I’m seeing stars. And everything is blood red. I’ve just conked my head getting into the shuttle van. It feels like I should have amnesia… and that would be preferable to the throbbing pain that shoots from the tips of my hair follicles through my skull and into the very […]
June 1, 2016 The Goo Goo Dolls. Steve Perry. Pearl Jam. Air Supply. The Santiago Airport is jamming to the 70s, 80s and 90s US hits. After a delirious trip through a mood-lit Bogota airport onto my flight to Chile, I’m feeling particularly time warped. The trip started with me miscalculating the tram system at […]
I’m back in Orlando after a two-fer bucket list trip. As I write this, I’ve already contemporaneously drafted most of the “missing days” posts that didn’t get posted on the day due to wonky internet issues. The other reasons being I still need to fact check a few names and places and I didn’t have […]
Today’s the day me and my big giant head set off for Easter Island, or as I prefer to call it, Rapa Nui. Or at least, I THOUGHT that’s what I should call it. Googling the Wikipedia entry on Easter Island provides background on the name for this island, one of the most remote inhabited […]