Yeesh. My phone says it’s 67% humidity. That’s gotta be a lie. Unless it’s gone down markedly from this morning I refuse to believe that. It was Tarzan Movie hot plus 4. I felt more like I was swimming than trying to run. Some days you hit the pavement and some days the pavement hits […]
I’ve collated the blog posts related to the Madagascar Marathon Tour package. You can find it in the TOURS section or by clicking my in-house created logo below: I’m holding out hope that Jeff and the Marathon Tours team will send along the photos they snapped along the course route on race day. If so, […]
There’s more than one way to see a lemur… Despondent and heartbroken at failing to get Mom a lemur sighting in Africa, I found a place not too far from us here in Florida that offered animal encounters. I surprised Mom with one final road trip for our Marathon Tours adventure… Madagascar by way of […]
There will be probably still two more Madagascar Marathon posts before I finalize the “Tour” page for it. But before I do that, I wanted to put out into the universe a quick thank you to some of my fellow Marathon Tours travelers who made the trip more fun. So thank you to: Brent and […]
Hopped up on antibiotics and popping pills like a 1980s supermodel, I’m working my way back from the razor’s edge of illness. I went out for a short, slow run this morning to try and sweat out the toxins (the humidity percentage here has to be high 90s and the temperatures are roughly the same […]
I wanted to take a moment today though and talk about the concept of taboo. The word itself derives from the Tonga term “tabu,” and was first introduced to the English language by Captain James Cook. According to Wikipedia (which ye gods I’m relying on far too much for my knowledge of the world these […]
June 20, 2017 – Long Day’s Journey Into Night Into Day June 21, 2017 It’s gonna be one of those days. The shuttle to the airport is picking us up at 11 am so we can catch our flight at 3 pm Tana time on the 20th and arrive at the home airport at 11 […]
June 19, 2017 – Long Day’s Journey Into Night This day has sucked. I’ve got a close to 2000 word piece on today but a lot of it I’ve chosen to hold back and use as contemporaneous notes for a followup discussion with Marathon Tours. It’s enough to post here that I am very disappointed […]
June 18, 2017 – The Madagascar Marathon I spent the night with a clammy, nasty undiagnosed fever. I was cold, with blankets pulled tightly around me; then I was hot and would kick off the layers. I thought it was dehydration or a low-grade dysentery or malaria or food poisoning. I almost typed “mild” instead […]
June 17, 2017 – Mine, Mine, Mine! It was supposed to be a tour of one of the largest sapphire mines in the world with a Swiss geologist providing insight into the history of sapphire mining in Madagascar along with the qualities and grading of the stones themselves. What it turned out to be was […]