Nov. 21st, 2009 Zaragoza is a city in the middle of a desert. It only rains about 300 mm per year and windmills for electricity are the most common crop growing up in these fields. However, it is only two hours drive from the Pirineos, the mountain range that divides Spain from France, where Ordesa National Park is. I went up there only for a one day visit. I wanted to be alone in the middle of an impressive place, I wanted to walk... to think... . Sometimes, being alone is not a way for avoiding somebody but a way of [View Full Entry]

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Sometimes I do imaginary trips to Florida... yes, I do. It happens when I see a colorful sunset over the distant city... I can cross the ocean in a glimpse and remove the crowded city from the scenery and insert a picture of a beach at the Gulf of Mexico, I choose Fort de Soto. Then I decide to jump into its salty waters and swim and swim... and I forget that I am spending the evening inside a chlorinated swimming pool because the clear blue glazed tiles turned into white sand and the floating lines became seaweeds, orange and blue [View Full Entry]

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Oct. 28th 2009: I started my new job one week ago and during the first five minutes I met my (new) boss he told me he had to go to a meeting in Angers, France, this week and that it would be a good opportunity for me to "land" from Florida. Of course he did not have to convince me! and a couple of days ago we did a nice 9-hour trip by car, crossing half of France, to Angers. It is fall and all the trees are showing their best colors, even I could see them! Once in Angers, well... [View Full Entry]

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