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Transitioning Egypt to Ethiopia:

From Addis Ababa – Jan. 20, 2022 I made it here WITHOUT the extra $100 fine for overstaying my 45-day Upon Arrival Visa in Egypt. Makes up for the EXTRA $94 I spent on the Ethiopian eVisa. I asked the Immigration Officer how much it would’ve been had I done it the more drawn-out andContinue reading “Transitioning Egypt to Ethiopia:”

Egyptian Perspectives: PsOV

Dec. 29, 20:43 Takeaway #1 Luxor – West Bank Hamadi’s Voice on President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi “He says he’ll do all these things for us, like he does for those in the north, particularly in Cairo, Alexandria. But here, in Upper Egypt, he thinks we are ignorant and we don’t understand and so he doesContinue reading “Egyptian Perspectives: PsOV”

Head Check # 2 – Purified by Water

Of my 10 days in Montenegro, I located Lidija’s Buba Ruba Bike Rentals. These next nine photos are from Nov. 1 – Nov 2., 2021, biking around the Bay of Kotor, when I wasn’t hiking or tripping to the Northern Mountain ranges. For four days I visited Plitvice Lakes, Croatia; mountain biking and hiking –Continue reading “Head Check # 2 – Purified by Water”

Head Checks – Souls on Fire

B̲e̲astie B̲oys – Check Your Head (Full Album) The very first title of a WordPress blog [started perhaps in 2019, but blogging had become REAL WORK and therefore abandoned] was/is micaphonechex, stolen from the Beastie Boys’ 1992 alum Check Your Head, and it’s something mi naño and great friend, Enrique Lavin and I named ourContinue reading “Head Checks – Souls on Fire”

SS Thistlegorm – Best Dives Ever

Dive Buddy’s, Ebihardt Niemes’, brilliant camerawork, capturing train car, left above divers’ bubbles, which was blown clear of Hold #4 in October 1941. Other shots of our Dive Master, Peter Bruce, and I tripping through the 4th – 3rd Holds. Check out at Oonas Dive Club and Hotel when you’re in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Don’tContinue reading “SS Thistlegorm – Best Dives Ever”

Best Made Plans – Tectonic Shifts [cont.]

Dubrovnik, Croatia Oct. 20, 2021It was exactly 10 years ago today that I boarded a plane from LAX to head to New Zealand as part of yet another of my Grand 10-Year Plans. Snickering from the Heavens Yes, anyone who knows me, knows I have been preaching and living my Plans For the Living [P4L]Continue reading “Best Made Plans – Tectonic Shifts [cont.]”

Tectonic Shifts – 10th Anniversary Oct. 20, 2021

Bus to Dubronik from Split, Croatia Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021 09:54 Travel like all well-planned ideas need support. I can’t thank all of you enough for your moral, spiritual, financial, culinary, historical, emotional and physical supports throughout these last 10 years of my Plans For the Living [P4L]. I’m blessed to have been able toContinue reading “Tectonic Shifts – 10th Anniversary Oct. 20, 2021”