I hadn't planned to see the April 8 eclipse until I learned that Uncruise was offering a trip to the centerline. I immediately signed up...

Just over a week ago I set out on a journey to Guana Island, a destination that is supposed to be paradise. For a west coast person, the...

Snorkeling was today's adventure. Bill, Glen, and I hired and outside vendor to meet us at the Guana Island dock and take us to the...

Sunrise is the best time to walk on Guana Island to see flamingoes and enjoy the flowers. Around 9:00 AM the weather gets hotter and...

Bigelow Beach is on the southeast side of Guana Island accessible by boat. It is a secluded white sand beach with rolling waves. We...

Long Man’s Point is a flat rock area that is next to Chicken Rock. From our porch on Guana Island, we can see Long Man’s Point, but not...

Sailing is the most silent way to travel. With sails up, the swoosh of the wind is all you hear. Our friend Bill is a former sailboat...

Today, the Guana orchard grows some of the food served in the restaurant. But the man who first started it was a naturopath and primarily...

Guana Island has 12 miles of trails, but from what I can tell, guests rarely hike them. There are many reasons, the chief being that most...

Guana Island is private, but anyone can land on the beach as long as they stay below the high water mark. Although Guana has many...

A 7:00 AM wakeup time in San Juan is equivalent to 3:00 AM in San Jose. After a very quick breakfast, we dragged ourselves to the airport...

We spent our first afternoon on Guana Island enjoying the shade of a very long needled tree on the beach. I think it is an Australian...

Guana Island advertises itself as a true paradise, one of the last pristine places in the British Virgin Islands. But getting there from...

I had high hopes of seeing the eponymous animal of this trail. But woodrats are more commonly seen in the evening or at night. Daytime...

The mouse that captivated the hearts of children and adults is finally entering public domain. It has been 100 years since Disney created...

San José Chamber Orchestra has a concert each year to mark the end of the old and the start of the new. Held at 3:00 PM, it provides...

For the past few years I’ve had a goal to read 52 books a year. This year I managed to read 57 books. Many were hefty tomes, like Barack...

The colorful ads for Shen Yun Performance (https://www.shenyun.org) company have been popping up in the San Jose area for more than a...

The title of this post is generated by an AI provided by the Wix platform and edited by me. The cartoon was created by Leonardo AI after...

Over a year ago I finished an orchestral composition that I'd worked on for a few years—Transition. (See Drawing the Double Bar Line.) To...