by Chris | Dec 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
A night of sailing down the Rio de la Plata brought us to our first port of call, the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo. The morning was as bright and as placid as the sun that adorns the Uruguayan national flag. Until that morning, Montevideo meant not much more to...
by Chris | Dec 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
Our time in Buenos Aires was unluckily short: we got there on a Sunday, and left on the ship on Tuesday. But we did have the good luck to get there in time for Sunday’s bustling, carnival-like San Telmo flea market, where amid browsing through the many booths...
by Chris | Dec 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’m so glad to be back home after a fun, interesting, and badly-needed vacation to South America. Dan and I flew to Buenos Aires on Sunday, Nov. 17, and spent two nights there. Then we got on a cruise ship that took us down the coast of Argentina, around Cape...
by Chris | Nov 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
The election already seems like a long time ago, doesn’t it? All that worrying over whether voters would deny same-sex marriage rights in the states of Maine and Maryland and Washington? When I was writing last week’s blog, I told myself, but...
by Chris | Nov 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
It’s been four years since I woke up on the Wednesday after Election Day, 2008, to learn that California voters had approved a consitutional amendment to deny marriage rights to same-sex couples. I remember how hollowed-out I felt on that day and the days that...
