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Continued from Random Roadtrip… “Now, Walter is in Italy… pursuing his dreams just as I am mine.” Mako wouldn’t wake up when I came a knocking. But, that turned out better because I would up calling Walter and meeting up with him. This trip back to SPS I was able to spend much more time [...]

Continued from Lost and Found… “El Doctor reckons we should make the trip together. Ahem… not if you’re after what I think you’re after. Too bad his intentions couldn’t be only amicable. If they were, I’d be on the back of that Harley yesterday. Sigh…” That evening I caught I ride with Dennis to the [...]

“A Coup In Honduras” is an opinion peace by Roger Noriega published on Forbes.com. Meeting in urgent session in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, the Organization of American States (OAS) issued a demand that Honduran President Manuel Zelaya be restored to power, calling his ouster earlier that day “an unconstitutional alteration of the democratic order.” The [...]

The following are comments posted to the article “Coup Rocks Honduras” published in the Wall Street Journal: Daniel Sheridan: Let’s see a country standing up to a president that tries to run roughshod over established laws and a constitution? No wonder President Obama condemned it. Interesting that he didn’t have to think as long on [...]

The situation in Honduras is still shaky with an overnight curfew and continued threats from Chavez. Read the clip from BBC.com below: Interim President Roberto Micheletti has imposed an overnight curfew in Honduras, hours after being sworn in. The Congress speaker took office after troops ousted elected leader Manuel Zelaya and flew him to Costa [...]

One of my many goals while I’m here in La Antigua Guatemala is to become involved in helping Non-governmental organizations and aid organizations to become more inline with the invaluable tools of today’s Social Media. Watch Katherine Fulton’s TED talk about the changing landscape of philanthropy: Also check out socialbrite.org, a new website to help [...]

Concerned about the current political unrest in Honduras, I sent out an email to many of my friends just a few hours away from me, across the Guatemalan border. So far, I’ve gotten two responses… The following response was sent to me via Blackberry from a friend who lives in Tegucigalpa, where the coup took [...]

While Twitter is certainly a platform for micro-gossiping and micro-blogging, it’s more. An article in the New York Times explains how Twitter is aiding surgeons, political movements, corporate sales and much more. One man has even invented a machine that Tweets when a baby kicks in his mother’s womb. The first reaction many people have [...]

Things are getting crazy here in Central America. Here’s a quick recap: A few weeks ago, a high-profile lawyer was murdered in Guatemala. A video of him, made just days before, was discovered. In the video the lawyer professed that if he was found dead, the Guatemalan President would be the man behind his murder. [...]

Continued from Divisive Denominations… “In order to accommodate the two new guests, the family – mom, dad and four kids – all had to share a single-sized bed.” Daniela and I returned to Copan in time to catch up with the boys and meet Julio for fubolito (5-on-5 soccer)! When we arrived at la cancha [...]