Lifestyle of Wandering: Reflections of a Wanderer

Well I got to Houma a lot later than I meant to. I passed flooded areas along the way and when I got to Houma I realized that many areas of the city were already flooding. I found my way to my first applicant’s house, and the street was flooded. I’m in an SUV right […]

9/12/08 08:00 It’s Friday morning, and we’ve been experiencing the outer bands of Ike since yesterday. On my way to my first appointment this morning I heard the Tornado Warning on the radio, and there was already localized flooding and small scale power outages in our area. 18:00 Here are a couple pics fron Metairie, […]

9/10/08 I’m sitting in Pearl River, LA at Pearl City Seafood (64207 Hwy 41, Pearl River, LA 70452) eating Crawfish Etoutfee. It is really good. When I pulled in I thought this was a restaurant, but it’s just a store. BUT, the lady was so sweet…she pulled out a folding chair and pulled over their […]

I’m sure everyone’s been wondering when I was going to post about my current deployment to New Orleans in response to Hurricane Gustav. It’s going to have to be in bits and pieces, but here it is. Those who know me know that I “moonlight” occasionally as a Disaster Housing Inspector contracted to FEMA through […]

Well, I don’t have much time, but I wanted to write a short (I hear you laughing, stop that! LOL!!!) post about the Special Olympics Benefit Concert that I attended on August 30th. The band that my daughter, Zipporah Bird, sings with, Ryze, performed for the 3 hours in Covington, VA and most of the […]

I’ll pick up from where I left off on my last post. When we got back from the indigenous community on Saturday, we did some sightseeing in Cuenca. Then it was time for Brenda to catch her flight, and me to go buy a bus ticket to Quito. I had planned an overnight bus ride […]

(18 de mayo, 2008) I’m not sure when I’ll get to upload this, but I wanted to take a little bit of time to let everyone know what’s been going on. On Thursday (15th) I was talking to 3 young women at the hostel I was staying at in Cuenca…they had all gone to college […]

I know, I haven´t posted much recently…I´ve been goofing off, which is the point of being here, right? I can´t stay on long, because I am going to an indigenous village near here from this morning until tomorrow morning. Plus, I´m at an internet place, not on my own computer. So I´ll try to figure […]

OK, so Mother’s Day ended 1-1/2 hours ago from when I’m writing this. But I still wanted to send Mother’s Day greetings to all of the moms I know! I’m in Cuenca, Ecuador right now, and it was a beautiful day. I’ve uploaded some pictures from the day, and I have some video to upload […]

[I started writing this last night…] Well, it’s Wednesday night, and I’m sitting in an Ecuadorian Hostel (not the one I mention in just a couple paragraphs) watching a German movie with Spanish subtitles! I’d planned to travel to Puyo today, but had some trouble with a website that I was working on, and ended […]