Rubino

Canopy tour, surfing, relaxing, and tacos....lots of tacos.... read more

The dreaded Lima. Everyone I spoke to before I went to Peru warned me to spend as little time as possible there. And if I did have to spend a day, be careful and take taxis. I personally liked Lima. The seafood is epic. We found a beautiful and interesting museum, and I got to surf! The waves were crappy and I rented a really crappy board. But it was nice just to paddle out and catch a few crumblers. We went to the National Museum and saw a photo exhibit of the Sendero Luminoso terrorist war from 1980-2000. Fascinating, and sobering, in the way that a holocaust museum is.... read more

The infamous Machu Picchu, as well as the lesser known Waiynu Picchu, little brother to Machu. One picture from the useless rip-off of a tourist town, Aguas Calientes... read more

Mexico is for a Californian surfer what the Wild West of old must have been for cowboys. It is a frontier land ripe for exploring. It also serves as the natural habitat in which they feel the most at home. Everything just seems to make sense. The winds blow in cycles - calm in the morning and getting stronger through the day as the morning chill turns to the late afternoon repressive heat. The tides wax and wane like clockwork and the swells repeatedly crash on the shore in predictable sets. At least that is how I felt in my most recent trip to Mexico, and that was exactly what has repeatedly drawn me to Mexico. It is a homecoming as much as it is a vacation. In the sparsely populated areas of Central Pacific Mexico, ... read more

When you enter a new blog on this website, you can choose from a list of locations for the entry. It starts with a general region such as Europe. Then you pick a country, and after that a city, zone, etc...For this entry, I got as for as Ukraine. The nearest city in the drop down list was approximately 400 km away from where I was. This was about the millionth sign that I will probably never find Felsoszinever (pronounced Fell-show-see-never) on a map sold anywhere in the Western world. Nor will I ever probably find Uzhgorod or Mukachevo, other towns I visited close to the Hungarian border. Nonetheless I was there, and these pictures prove it. Most of you that are reading this probably received my long winded email on my trip to Ukraine, so ... read more