Archive for January 3rd, 2008

The Best and the Brightest?

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

As my friends and family back in Iowa head to the caucuses today I am half a world away. This year, of all years, with the most wide-open and potentially interesting presidential campaign of my lifetime in progress, I am overseas and will miss the entire show. Mercifully, today will ...

The Second Quest

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

    One of the little known upsides of foreign travel is exposure to obscure movies subtitled in the local language. We’re holed up in a hotel in Santiago, Chile, waiting for our expedition truck & motorcycles to arrive via ship in Valparaiso.   One of the ways we’ve been killing time is ...