Flying Through the Caribbean Breeze
A little video of me clinging to some sort of wind swing thing that whips me around like a rag doll off the coast of the Riviera Maya (Cancun, MX, spring 2010): Here’s one where we cruised around the inlets in little toy speedboats before spilling out into the sea and jumping overboard to snorkel:
Mind Scraps: Hitting the Notes or Touching the Soul
Saturday night Playa del Carmen hosted a pre-concert for its International Jazz Festival coming up in November. The main attractions for the 2010 summer highlight includeded smooth jazz singer/songwriter Phil Perry and renowned jazz pop singer Bryan McKnight. Admittedly, I don’t know Perry’s music too well. His performance was fun. I felt his heart and [...]
Al Cielo with Del Sol Photography
Just wanted to share a compelling video of Al Cielo that Wonder Boy and Photog Beauty put together to give a clearer idea about my magical experience with this extremely talented and inspiring couple:
What Makes a Rarámuri a Rarámuri?
They observe the ceremonies. They protect the forest. They run. “At the heart of who they are is running,” Will Harlan. “Where we see giving as something extra or something that you should get praise for, to the Rarámuri, giving is just so ingrained in who they are that it’s not something that you have [...]
The Timing Couldn’t Have Been More Perfect
I was fighting to make “base camp” work in Guatemala when this song hit the airwaves. Black Eyed Peas I’ve got a Feeling truly defines a most unforgettable part of my experience in Guatemala, especially with a tremendously close-knit group of friends I had while there. I cling to this song for so many of [...]
You’ve Got to Roll With It!
For today’s daily post: a little vid I slapped together of the boys out in the surf at El Paredon Beach in Guatemala. I captured the video with my dinky but nonetheless valuably waterproof, point-and-shoot camera. Enjoy!
Update on Political Instability in Honduras
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 [...]
Videos of Guatemala
Here is some video from Antigua. First, you’ll see some Garifana performers (former African population whose culture is unique to the Caribbean coast of central America). Next, you’ll find video of musicians in Parque Central of Antigua followed by Parque Central at night. It’s not a crazy exciting video but it does show a bit [...]
Just Walk with a Little Faith
This incredibly humbling and inspiring. This one tugs at the heart strings…
Getting Personal about Water
A video from Alexandra Cousteau’s Blue Legacy project – a project that’s meant to raise awareness about the global state of water. A few interesting points her work highlights: * Ninety-seven percent of our world is made up of water, but only one percent is suitable for humans to drink. * In just a few [...]
In Too Deep… Deep Love, Deep Diving!
Too much time has passed and too much has happened over my blogging absence to give the typical, LMAC “novel” account of everything. So, in attempt to give everyone a glimpse of what I’ve experienced so far, I’m just going to bullet list them and follow the list with applicable pics and vids. * Carlos [...]
Donation Helps Save a Blue Baby
Well I couldn’t have imagined a more precious cause for everyone’s donation. Part of the donation will go towards the transportation and small medical costs necessary for a 7-month-old Chortí infant to receive heart surgery. Through Samaritan’s Purse, the expensive operation will cost just 1,000 Lempiras, or about $50, for this Chortí child who suffers [...]
Donate to the Chortí Maya
So the plan was to get this video up a lot sooner, while I was still in Copan Ruinas. I was going to encourage everyone to donate, even if it was as little as ten bucks. I have a PayPal account so all the donations could be accessibly almost immediately. Then I would write a [...]
Ag Steward of the Chortí Maya
Okay. This is a story I’ve published on AgWired. There’s MUCH more to the story, which I plan on publishing here, but it’s been quite a challenge with the intermittent internet. So, I’m just publishing what I have now and will publish more later… There is a group of indigenous people in Honduras that live [...]
More Sights and Sounds from Chi-Town
Last week’s trip certainly wasn’t my first visit to Chicago. I’ve blogged about past Chi-town based adventures including my first-ever couchsurfing experiences, The Passion event, and coverage of the 2007 Peak Antifreeze Indy 300 (actual coverage of the race can be found on DomesticFuel.com). This time, the U.S. Africa Agribusiness Forum brought me to Chicago [...]
Cruisin Indy Style
Check out this vid of me cruising around in a street legal two-seater IndyCar. Just one of the many perks of covering the Indy Racing League! I do have to warn everybody now… I’ve got in my head to become an IndyCar driver now. So, I’m going to be making a habit hitting up the [...]
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