• A Book and a Chat with Bob Ferguson

    Bob Ferguson is my guest on today’s “A Book and a Chat”, chatting about his debut book the thriller “Buzzard Bay”. Bob grow up in a remote region of Canada without electricity or telephones, spending many an evening dreaming of faraway places listening to an old battery operated radio. Later these…
  • Our Adventures: Let the Sun S…

    Our Adventures: Let the Sun Shine! I'm soooooooo far behind on our adventures (and SotW posts, and Charcoal blogs, and...)... but if'n y'don't start somewhere, you never get back to things, right? So... I'm starting last weekend. Not this past weekend - we went to the GR Public museum yest…
  • CO2 Poster Completed

    Currently Apologies to the Queen Mary (Dig) By Wolf Parade see related In our last episode I put together a few concepts for the 48 pixel tall protagonist of Space Adventure. Usually the first model you put together is not the one chosen, so even though I was quite fond of the guy in the y…
  • Lake Titicaca Homestay

    After spending a day or two becoming acclimated to the altitude, We set off to visit and stay on the small islands within Lake Titicaca, the largest and highest freshwater lake in the world As if the name Titicaca wasnt funny enough, it ultimately flows out to Bolivia's Lake Poopo (pronounced poo-p…
  • On the Shores of Lake Titicaca

    After a fun filled weekend of wine, flight, and sandboarding, we began our tour proper, meeting the remaining 2 members of our group as well as the rest of the tour and set off for our first destination, Puno At 3800m above sea level, it was an introduction to high altitude living and our first rea…
  • Heard it through the grapevine

    After a long day of flight and sandboarding, we opted to spend the evening on a tour of several wineries, starting with Tacama We began to sample a number of wines A rather large number Our Guide on this winery tour went by the name of big willie Quite the rascal that one A couple of bo…
  • Free E-Book Tuesday 9 April: Wake of the Raven

    This Tuesday 9 April 2013, ending midnight, I'm making my most major novel, Wake of the Raven, available free for download on Amazon's Kindle e-reader. The zero price lasts just for the day, but the download onto your Kindle is permanent. If you don't have a Kindle, no problem. You can have the nove…
  • Sandboarding the Dunes of Huacachina

    A short distance from Ica where we were staying lies the small desert town of Huacachina. I am not exaggerating when I say small, that is quite literally the entire town you see laid out below you. As resort towns go, it is mostly aimed at backpackers and mostly for one type of activity Sandboard…
  • Graves in the forest

    Today my boyfriend and I were lounging and having lunch. Then his mother mentioned that his dad was going to go into the woods and find some graves. Apparently he had found the graves when he was a little boy and always loved the mystery that surrounded them. So I said that I'd love to come along. A…