A little "Vacation" instead of Conservation...

I have been promising to write that article about window energy savings in the warm climates, but it is going to have to wait a little longer. I have been redesigning a website, with new software to boot, and it takes a ridiculous amount of time. This writing being a hobby while work being necessary to my existence, it takes precedence. This is not about my work, which I am going to keep private. It is about what I have been reading about a lot with envy, as I have not been able to take a vacation myself for quite a while.

I started by reading about Belize, which is formerly British Honduras. It is a tiny country off the boot of Mexico. It doesn't get the publicity of Costa Rica in Central America, and here is why: There are only 250,000 people in the whole country! I keep thinking about going there for a year to write, as they do speak english there, and I thought that would be convenient. But I heard it is hard to change the money there-they love american hard currency and hate to see it leave the country. It should be a great place to go, but I don't think that it is as polished a vacation destination as is Costa Rica. I had two young girlfriends go there for several weeks a couple of years ago, and they found it to be incredibly beautiful and interesting, and more importantly, safe. They are very attractive young gals, and they experienced no problems whatsoever. After they came back with their photo albums and stories, I talked to a buddy of mine about renting a Costa Rica Vacation Home for a few weeks just to see what it would be like to be there. Unfortunately, the wifey wouldn't hear of it-of course, she wasn't invited, so that might have had something to do with it. All the pretty ticas-as Costa Rican girls are known-and I would have to worry about being protected from them by a hen thinking she was doing me a favor! This is also a great place to visit if you are an eco-tourist; the girls told me that if you don't believe in conservation by the time you leave there, you have lived in the city for far too long.

Costa Rica is not the only the destination I have been preoccupied with-every time I see "Captain Blood" or The Princess and the Pirate with Bob Hope, I think about life in the Bahamas in the 1700's, when Rum was king, and the pirates were the terror of the Spanish Main, if that is where that is. Anyway, there are some incredibly beautiful islands in the Carribean, and I can't wait to take a little trip to this area. I deserve a vacation a lot, and I wish I hadn't bought a house last fall; it seems like it owns you more than the other way around. I keep thinking about renting a house in the Bahamas, and just take a month off, get brown, concoct sweet rum drinks, and watch the bluest of blue water beyond the whitest of white sand. I am so tired of desert brown sand in Arizona, as much as I like it here.

The best us Arizonans get for exotic locations is finding a nice Mexican beach villa in Cabo San Lucas, wait for Ted Nugent to show up and poor you a Cabo Wabbler with countless other Americans escaping their life in the real world. Cabo is an easy "get-to" to from all points on the west coast, and they do know how to treat americans there, from everyone I've met that's been there. It is what people say it is: a great big party.

If you guys got any further suggestions on places i should be thinking about visiting I am all ears. I am going to start planning for something this fall, and I need a break. I have even been brushing up on my Spanish with Rosetta Stone.
They have a great learning module on their website you can try out. It does work. Contrary to popular belief, you need to know more than Cerveza, por favor! in Latin America.

-Desert Viking
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Words to Live Greener By 9/14/07

this is the second installment of words to live greener by. I hope that I do find some interesting topics for you to discover around the net. Once I have a enough to make a page, I will post it. If you have any interesting obscure topics, please post them by all means. (I am posting this a bit early this week, as I am occupied this evening and tomorrow morning, so the date is not wrong it is just early.)

If we don't do more to save the outdoors, there won't be anything left to save. Join the Sierra Club.

I am not a raging wildlife conservationist, but I do have a lot of sympathy for the polar bear, whose world seems to be disapearing as we go through our current climate fluctuation. I am not completely sold on the idea of all global warming is caused by man-there are fluctuations that occur in nature-but a lot of what we do as humans certainly can't be helping it. I am not sure what good this petition ultimately does, but it shows someone cares.

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Salt Water the newest Green Fuel?

This is interesting...apparently someone figured out how to extract the energy from salt water, our "most abundant resource" by applying radio waves. Check out the article at breitbart here....

Explore, enjoy and protect the planet

This is an article on treehugger from today. Water conservation is an important topic, and while I don't agree with everything ultra-conservationists preach, we can all learn something from each other. This is a great article because it addresses good practices we can all take advantage of. I wish I had written it first, so Kudos to the author, and as I have a special place in my heart for authors, she will get her name mentioned here as well. Jasmin Malik Chua. Great article, Jasmin.

Find out how you can save water and energy with Tankless Water Heaters. Tankless water heaters are the future, people. Europe doesn't even allow tank heaters, as I understand it.


This is an interesting article about advances in solar power. Solar power is eventually going to change the way we live.