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My Covid Year +

Posted on 06/08/2021 by margrad80

Up until a few months ago I was writing quite a few posts, but nothing was good enough to publish. I was really stuck in my head, and would go in circles. My blogs tend to follow the form of planning, doing, and recap. During my COVID year, I wasn’t able to plan. Today I…

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We Never had Paris.

Posted on 10/31/202010/31/2020 by margrad80

During my last dinner with Gina we talked about meeting up in Paris in 2020. You might think that Covid19 upset our plans, but it was much worse than that. Covid would have just been a delay, a year or a decade. A few months after I left Warsaw Gina was diagnosed with cancer. Seven…

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It feels like being home!

Posted on 10/28/2020 by margrad80

When I was getting ready to leave Houston, I knew that I was going to want to self isolate when I got to Mexico. I bought a bunch of food to keep me going for awhile, and packed it all into a checked bag, totally violating my minimalist traveler ethic. These are strange times. A…

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SDV: A Blogger Escapes the Real World, Part One.

Posted on 09/18/2020 by margrad80

Spoiler alert!I am not even going to try to avoid spoilers. So be forewarned. This walkthrough is for the iPad version of the game which has quite a few differences from the desktop version. It will only be a walkthrough of my game-play. Stardew Valley is very flexible, so as you play the game your…

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Suddenly I Feel Alive Again

Posted on 09/02/2020 by margrad80

I make no bones about it folks. I have been really out of sorts for the past 153 days, since I got stopped in Texas on my way to Mexico. The Airbnbs I have lived in during that time have been nice, and in different times I am sure I would have enjoyed myself immensely….

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In Montrose: this is a pretty neighborhood

Posted on 07/11/202007/11/2020 by margrad80

Today I decided I had better just stop playing Stardew Valley and get back to blogging. I was surprised to see that I had never finished this post. So I am going to get it done now, though it should have been finished a month ago. I will expand it to include the days since…

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Down on the (Buffalo) Bayou

Posted on 05/28/202005/29/2020 by margrad80

When I was going to university in Galveston back in the 70s, I remember hearing about Houston’s Buffalo Bayou. What I remember the most was that bodies were always being found there. More than a few like José Campos Torres, were said to have been put there by the Houston cops. An old college chum…

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Adrift in Houston, With Little to Do

Posted on 04/27/202005/30/2020 by margrad80

All my options and observations in this post are warped by the fact that the world is in the mist of the Covid19 pandemic. If and when this is all over, I will have to revisit my thoughts and see if they still hold true. When I booked my Airbnb in Texas, I was just…

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How I ended up adrift in Texas: A Nomad Interrupted continued …

Posted on 04/27/202004/27/2020 by margrad80

In the days leading up to leaving Peru, there was a lot of rain, and I found it much more interesting to play Stardew Valley on my iPad, than to go out and do things. After 140 days in Peru, I was rather excited to be changing countries again. I have determined that more than…

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Nomad Interrupted

Posted on 04/14/202004/14/2020 by margrad80

So, you might have noticed that I haven’t been posting lately. Well, don’t worry Covid19 hasn’t gotten me, but it has tossed a big monkey wrench into my plans. When last we met, I had just returned from a trip to the Galápagos Islands. As it turned out the rains, which had delayed my return…

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My Inconvenient Live

I am a retired American Merchant Mariner.  l was living a nomadic lifestyle somewhere between being a nomad and an expat, before Covid19. I moved from country to country as my visas ran out. This blog covered my travels and the random thoughts about life, technology, travel, and the Oxford comma. Now I am stuck waiting for the pandemic to pass. During this time my posts will have very little to do with traveling, and more to do with keeping myself entertained during lockdown.

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